Cory catfish substrate help

[prsturm]

Hello. I'm new to the fish world, and have started a 15 gallon tank. I just added a cory catfish (trilineatus) only to find out that I may have the wrong bed for it. I'm using "regular" Tetra gravel, only to find out that it might be sharp or cut or damage the catfish's barbs. Do I need to change to sand, or is regular gravel safe for corys?

 

[Fishman1995]

regular aqyarium gravel is safe for corys, thats all ive ever had with my corys and there fine

 

[riseabovethesun]

I use eco-complete and it works fine, my Kuhli Loaches were also fine in it, the Kuhlis were also fine in regular Walmart bought gravel. Now the Kuhlis are in sand and seem just as thrilled but they don't burrow in the sand like they did in the gravel.

I think the texture of your gravel must be similar to the eco-complete, honestly eco-complete seems pretty rigid to me and I have 4 of the "fake" Juliis who do fantastic in it.

 

[prsturm]

Coolio. Danke!

 

[Kissyboots]

I've tried gravel and onyx sand. Both work fine.

Sind Sie Deutsch?

 

[prsturm]

Nein, aber mein Urgroßvater kam aus Österreich.

 

[Kissyboots]

Cool, meine Mutter ist aus Deutschland. Die hat mir Deutsch beigebracht und jetzt studiere ich es an der Uni. Ich studiere dann auch irgendwann mal in Deutschland hoffentlich.

Welcome to MFT, by the way.

 

[lstorns]

havent seen or red german in years I can kind of follow My corys do ok on regular gravel and eco complete. I have pandas and emerald corys. but I did have a julie cory and that one scrapped its face off. It was pretty sad to see

 

[ryanoh]

I recently changed my substrate to sand, and was thinking about getting some panda cories from aquabid. Almost all the videos on youtube or cory fish had sand substrate, but I just wanted to double check and make sure its fine. It's fine, right?

 

[blue_ram]

The only thing that harms the cories barbels is sharp large particle quartz gravel and iron pyrite black type sand.

If you want to watch the cories have a blast, put in regular play sand.

 

[ryanoh]

The only thing that harms the cories barbels is sharp large particle quartz gravel and iron pyrite black type sand.

If you want to watch the cories have a blast, put in regular play sand.

Thanks, that makes me excited. All I've ever read about cories says they're super fun to watch. I'll go ahead and get some now that I know its safe for them.

 

[littletankbigworld]

When I used regular gravel, it shaved my catfish's barbels down to little stubs. Sand is the best. They are much more active and happy.

 

[kooling]

i have a peppered cory that does just fine with regular gravel he is a happy and healthy fish about 2in

 

[Dylandrewsdad]

I just added 3 Cory’s to my 55 with sand substrate this weekend! They seem to love it and I live watching them swim all over the tank together!