The usual cause of Cory's losing their barbels is the gravel being too rough and/or having too sharp edges to it. Estes Aquarium Gravel company offers substrate already having rounded edges. It comes in many different colors, but also comes natural Ray
--- In tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com, "Karen Martin" <DanemarkDanes@...> wrote:
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> Speaking about Cory's. What would cause the feelers in front to go missing?
> I had several albino cory's in a tank with a pleco and several adult angles
> and I think at that time there were a couple guppies. A couple of neons and
> a couple zebra danios. It's a 55 gallon tank. I have had cory's in that tank
> for a long time and all those fish had all been together for quite some
> time. Then I noticed that the feelers would be gone and they would then die.
> But I do have one that survived all that and does just fine without any. I
> will also say that this is a tank that has been up and running for several
> years and gets the bottom siphoned regularly and water changes if not every
> week then every other week. Just wondered in anyone had any ideas what would
> cause that.
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> Karen
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