ID help please, got a bunch of fish

[scotchbonneteater]

Looks like a Cory to me, I have a school of schwartz corries and they are easy to feed. I use sinking pellet or tablets and sometimes bloodworms/brine shrimp, I think most corries will eat just about anything as they are mostly omnivorous.

I agree with others here as to school sizes as corries like to be in a school.

[Azurescriber]

How big is your tank? If it is too small the pleco's growth will be stunted, which is all sorts of bad news. This does not mean everything is ok now, you should give him to a pet store soon, who will hopefully find him someone with a big tank.

The pleco should be eating those veggies you sunk for the cory, and he would appreciate algae tabs too, I imagine. He doesn't actually eat wood, he eats the stuff on it, so if it's clean, no need for him there.

We are not blaming you for having awkward conditions for your fish...I've made too many of my own mistakes for that! But we are advising you so that you can make things right. :)

What kind of tetra is your fish? He needs others of the same type, not just anything named tetra.

We could help you stock it if we had params! :)

[scotchbonneteater]

Please find out the type of pleco you have as there are some smaller ones, I have bulldog and bristlenose plecs which both only grow to about 5-6"

[icefreeze57]

I'm really not sure, I don't think its a smaller one though, but I really don't think its a common, he is 4 years old and only a few inches long, he wasn't in a big tank but he wasn't in a 10, I think he was in a 38 and I have a 39 (both of our tanks are just under 40 gallons, I was reading their growth rate and they seem to grow quite fast, so he should be really big by now. I'm hoping hes something that doesn't get too big. I am getting another tank for my apartment by school which will bigger so he should make the trip with me once I get that set up.

Anyway, he seems happy, I'll take extra care of him, there is nothing else that plays in his space (expect maybe the corries a little bit) but I'm getting even more hiding spaces for him, so he should be happy. He certainly isn't "to big" for the tank (at least not yet).

I thought I mentioned the Tetra, hes (or she) is a skirt tetra, I want to get him at least a few more guys, they will probably be a lot smaller then him cause hes like full size but still, at least he'll have something for him, I don't remember last time he had a playmate, so I'm sure hes overwhelmed with the multiple swimmers in my tank now (I have a school of tiger barbs, they leave him alone he almost blends in with his stripes on the side).

Before I do that though I want to bring my upstairs filter back down, its a TopFin 40 running on a 15G tank, I have a 15G filter that has been runnning on my main tank (alongside my Aqua Clear 50) but I'm not sure if its seeded yet, its only been a few weeks. I might buy an aqua clear 20 and set it up on the 15G tank with the media from my AC50 and just run the other 3 on my main tank.

[Azurescriber]

Oh good, your pleco isn't cramped yet. :) Or maybe not at all if it's a bristlenose or something like that. Sounds like you are ok there.

Sometimes you get lucky in a store and they have the adult types..I love comparing the adult tiger barbs in one store to the baby ones in the other...sure they would fit fine in a 10g until you realize they grow up!

3 filters, oh my. Doesn't that create a wicked current? I wouldn't know, just curious. I plan on adding a itty tetra 5i whisper on the back of my 20g with my normal filter, but that's just so I didn't waste all that money on a tank I'm disassembling. :-P

[icefreeze57]

Well I use to run a TF40 and a AC50 on my "big" tank but then opened this 15G for my baby convict

I think I am giving my cousin a tank for his bday/graduatuion so I guess the 15G filter will go for that, I'll have the AC20 on my 15 and the two other on the big tank, idk yet

[oneman]

Looks like you got yourself a Emerald green cory aka emerald cory. These cories are the largest cories I have seen.
Cories like to be in schools and like lots of space to swim.