Panda Cory Catfish Care: A GREAT Addition to a Community Aquarium!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
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In this video we take a closer look at the Panda Cory Catfish - a great little fish for your community fish tank.
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I have about 16 panda cats, unheated aquarium; their tankmates are white cloud mountain minnows.. I'm fairly sure the pandas eat the mms eggs. And, no one tells you, the panda cats breed like bunnies; cute little wet bunnies. They are full of life and personality, fun fish for sure. Thanks for the video on these cuties.
I bet that many swimming together looks pretty cool. What size tank is it? I was thinking of getting between 8-10 for my 29g planted tank. I used to have white clouds and I loved them. Super hardy and super active fish. I loved watching them play in the current of my HoB filter.
@@madturtle8826 it's a 20 tall. I started out with just six of them.
Yikes! I plan on getting 6 for my 20 long, it already has quite a few other fish in it and their my last additions to the tank. I don’t know if my tank could handle so many babies! Any recommendations on how to get them to not breed?
@@joyrice1350 I have no clue how to get them to not breed, lol If you could manage to get all of one sex? An option is to sell them or trade them at a local fish club, or fish store? Give them to friends? Get a different cory that isn't quite as bunny like? Sorry, I'm not much help.
Breed like bunnies, sure do! Started with two and now have aprox a dozen, not sure, never see them all at once. They're so cool! Have them in a 36 gal bow front aquarium. Other tank members consists of otocinclus cats, cherry barbs, neon and black tetra, with hatchet fish at the top. Also a black kuhli loach. They all get along fine👍
I love my Panda Corys!! They are so fun - They get in a big group and do synchronized swimming parties sometimes! So peaceful and cute!
I have a 10g with 4 panda corydoras and a male betta. And they get along so well. No aggression at all. And I've actually seen them eating together. I feed once a week some catfish pellets and the betta will go at it first and break it up and the pandas will join in and eat with him.
Be careful, I hid some frozen shrimp cube in my gravel to give my laser corys a treat, and one of the betta sisters found the trove and gorged herself until I was afraid of dropsy (she's fine). Remember their stomachs are the size of their eye! I love them together but feeding really is something to watch. It's fun to throw the cory gang some bloodworms, but really will eat themselves to death in a community tank if they can.
Thats good to know! I had a 12 tall, and I wasnt sure if I could get away with a group of four or five
What temperature do you keep the tank at? And are your fish doing well still? I have a thriving group of pandas at 76 F currently, thinking of adding a betta.
I LOVE mine! 18 - 20 in my 33 long. They are so fun and wiggly. I started with 7 and let them just do their thing. Great community fish. Panda piles are so cute. No idea why they pile up but it’s adorable.
Ours pile up too! They sleep on one another, it's so funny to watch.
Years ago, I used to breed them and Panda babies would survive in the aquarium if enough bottom cover existed. One thing that helped was a plastic "fake grass" mat (purchased at a large craft center); I would weigh it down with a few rocks. The female cories would lay their eggs in it and the fry would continue to hide in it. I will soon be setting up a 22-gallon bookshelf aquarium for Pandas. They are cute, like puppies! 😊
Just got 6 panda corys and they are a blast to watch. Looking forward to when I can move them from the quarantine tank to the community tank.
The panda Cory cats are some of my absolute favorites, how could you not love these little guys?
Thanks for your suggestions on tankmates, because these guys are so peaceful ....they sure don't need to be harassed ♥️
I've always loved these guys along with my bettas.. I love that they're not just a bottom dweller (although they are) but it's really interesting when there's a group of them and they swim all up and down the tank and create a lot of activity!
Thanks for another wonderful video Jason, always beautiful always informative!!
I hope you are having a blessed day and I hope you have a wonderful weekend! 🙏🌿🐟🌿💚
Ya, they are great little fish!
Panda Cory's are among some of my favourites in the Cory family, such a happy looking fish!
I love your species profiles; so easy to understand and very thorough 😊 thank you Jason!
Thank you!
Definitely the best 🐼’s 🫧🫧👀✨👍🏻
I used to keep these, and let me tell ya, cameras don't do their beauty justice. These little guys are so pretty in person.
You are so correct!
they are so chubby and cute!!! i cant stand how cute they are
Corydorable!! Can’t wait to add Cory’s to my new planted tank! ❤
Cory cats in general are just so darn fun!
Hey Jason, I was watching an older video in which you were comparing test strips, and you stated "you can save a little money by cutting them in half" omg you can? Best tip ever! I kinda hee and haw every time I get low on them cause they're so expensive, but I know I need them....so thanks!
Yep! Just have to have good eyes. Haha
I recently got some bronze cory cats and I'm looking into getting the pandas over the coming weeks. A well timed video!
I just did the exact same thing! I have my bronze Corys and my pandas in my tank and they are all doing great.
I started off with 3 adult panda Corey I adopted from a friend and now have over 25 in my 75 gallon rainbow community tank in only 8 months
That is so cool!
Did they breed or did you buy the 25?
Breed non stop for me
how did you breed them?
@Jennifer Millsaps 77 degrees
Your efforts to debunk myths is appreciated. Keep educating.
Thanks for the video !
Jim
Thank you!
Excellent Panda Corydora profile video. One off my favourite Cory’s along with Salt and Pepper Cory’s 🤩
Great info just moved about 8 pandas to a 29gal water parameters are stable they’re just hanging around the sponge filter not very active had them in a 20 high before the move had great luck in breeding eggs everywhere in 20 high so the 20 high are for the Fry until they get larger they were more active in the 20 then the 29 tank is established!!! Thanks for the vid brotherrrr!!!!!
I had two corys in my five gallon when I kept fish in high school. Should have had more but I spent my extra money on neons and zebras. Thanks!
I do enjoy the panda cory cats as well. I have about 10 of them in my 75 gal blackwater setup with cardinals, Pencilfish and a few sailfin tetra's. Nice 20 long you have there. Rock work looks great
Such cute little guys!
Interested to hear more on oxygenation and cycling a tank - you mentioned ammonia/nitrite would send them scooting up to the top to breathe, I didn’t know ammonia or nitrite could affect oxygenation!
Ya, it does in the sense that it damages the gills.
Great video as always. ...love the music...very relaxing, appreciate it.....have a great evening fish nerds
I got 2 juveniles in my 75 gallon tank, they are so fun I hope they do ok!
I got got 3 of these at the recent mcas auction. They are so cute and I cant wait until then get bigger.
Cory's are awesome 💚
Great video. I have a group of 10 sterbai corys in a 20L....hoping to breed. thanks for the info.
My favorite fish. Great video
Have 3 pandas, three platys, and one male paradise fish in a 10 gallon planted aquarium kept at 71 degrees. They are all doing great together. I do a 1/4 water change a week. Because everything is so well balanced, I'm thinking of putting in 3 long fin white clouds.
Keep an eye on the paradise fish. Sometimes they get more aggressive as they grow (sometimes not).
@Prime Time Aquatics I've heard that about Paradise fish, so hopefully, he'll remain nice. I noticed two of them going after each other and avoided buying them. He's very inquisitive and checks out the whole tank after I re-arrange things. He's definitely a male, and I've never seen any aggressive behavior towards his tank mates.
I have 2 pandas & 2 green corydoras in my 20 gallon & they really all love each other ❤️ they love to huddle together (usually a panda & a green will be hugging each other & being besties. 🤩😍🙏❤️
I have a 29H tank with a honey gourami, some harlequin rasboras and cherry barbs. They all get on famously and so I was considering some panda corys. The tank doesn't have much going on at the bottom level (though the barbs visit there a bit). This video is really selling me on them. The only thing really holding me back is I have black gravel and don't see myself switching the substrate any time soon. Also, our store wanted $15 per fish. I wouldn't be able to get the whole group at once.
thanks for this! I love panda corys and flip aquatics!
I just watched the profile on the Honey gourami and I went back to this video as a cross reference to watch how sweet these little fish are so cute!
It’s a great combo 😀
I would love a video on habrosus cories! There isn't much online info on them online but they seem to be pretty common
The plecko at 0:57 was making sure that the panda knew his place 😂
Talk about timing, just got a school of 7 Panda Corys for community tank with neon tetras and 1 Betta... they are the funniest fish, worth every penny. Would love to breed them. Thanks for the info !
the pandas have disappeared for some time in our area, bur just this week I found them again along with long fin, new one for me I went with the standards but wishing now I purchased the long fin TY
I like the long fins too!
Love my Cory's 🤩 I have albino Cory's, bronze Cory's and a panda Cory !
They are amazing little guys 🙂
Great video panda cories are my favourite corydoras
My Cory's spawn and hatch in the strangest of waters. They have done both while I was fighting ammonia, and survived. A month ago I was surprised to find two babies I had no idea were even there. I thought I got out all the eggs because I had just raised a bunch of babies, but low and behold two babies about 2 mos old.
So cute fish
I have 3 panda Cory's in my 10g with my betta and 4 x ray tetras. They are all very happy now. I'm planning on getting a couple more pandas. And later this year I'm going to upgrade there tank to a 20 high. If I'm in able to convince my wife to do so then I can move some to my outdoor pond. Its heated so it wont get to cold. It does get cold here in southern oregon. The tank they are in is a planted tank I have carabsea planted tank sub and I have capped it will black sand. An okay amount of plants. I have a water lily plant a good bit of guppy grass and I have a bunch of rotala. And a good number of hiding spots. I will be going and getting 2 more pandas probably tuesday. And I will also get some special food for them. I've been feeding tropical fish food and frozen foods. For filtration I have a corner sponge Filter and a Hang on back. I also have lava rock on top of the sand and man they love the tank so far.
Do you mind filling us in on your pond heater set-up? I was researching for my 100 gallon and got lost quickly - the technical aspects of fishkeeping are the biggest challenges for me, I get biology and natural processes, but it took so long to figure out things like 'but what is an impeller?!' It must be nice to be part of a fishy couple for those times!
I love corys!
Pretty nice and relaxing tank. Loved it. Love the scape-theme. I will definitely subscribe:)
Glad you are here!
I have these in my guppy tank. Everyone gets along well.
Oh cool, I'm making a new (old, rescaped) tank for mine, not exactly sure where I wanted them to go. I appreciate not just lumping all species together under 'corydoras' but giving us specific information about a species. (How'd I miss this one!)
I love them! They are the cutest fish imo but i might be bias lol
Love these little guys :) I don't remember a time when I had a tank w/o coryes. I always buy at least 10 of every variety to experience to the full their wonderfull group dinamic.
In the begining I had "one of each", sort of speak, but after watching a footage from the Amazon with thousands of the same species moving in unison, I saw the light:P From then on, every "representative" of a cory species in my tanks, have at least 10 "colleagues" :D
Also, always remember to provide soft substrate (I recommend Manado), they always enjoy "diving" in to it.:)
This video is just in time as I recently adopted 3 grown panda cory’s for my 10g community tank!
How are they doing in a 10g? I want them but worry 10 gallons might not be enough
@@rd0303. Actually they’re doing great! They live together with some shrimp and neon tetras. They even made little baby corydora’s which I found new homes for once they were grown enough.
@@StridersGottaStride wow! That’s really reassuring, I’m definitely going to get some! Thanks for the reply
Love those Panda Corys
I love my little herd! My favorite is when they spaghetti slurp blood worms and do the cute munch face.
I love corydoras! I have albinos, green lasers, orange lasers, gossei, and pepper corys (all in different tanks.) The only ones that so far that have successfully bred have been the pandas. By far my favorites. PH 8 they did great until heater malfunction :( Thanks Jason!!
Good to know!
Cory cats lineup next to each other like cars at a 50s drive-in💯😂
Cant wait to add panda corydoras to my 20 long community tank 😄
I've got my corry cats with 2 green sevrums , 5 giant danios, 13 tiger barbs, some other larger catfish. And to top it off, 3 mollies.
Carpeting plants are a no go for corys . Learned the hard way 😓 my pearl weed carpet that took a year was gone in 1 week . Now I did patches with room between for them to swim
Really love them, they are so awesome. 💗💗
thanks, been waiting for this one!
I started with 6 of these guy in a 180 gal about 2 years ago. I'm up to about 20 now. They like playing/breeding in my massive (2 ft wide) Java fern.
That’s cool!
Love the profile series! Could you recommend a Cory that wouldn't mind warmer temps of a Discus tank? I keep my tank around 83. LMK! 🤙
When I started our 55gal planted a year and a half ago tank we started out with 7 Pandas and some neons in 76F water. Since then the tank has been through a lot of change including 9 discus and a temp that was very slowly increased to 85F before the discus were added. Our pandas have done well, which has since included 7 other corys of different species (green laser, swartzi, false juli, sterbai, flagtail and concolour - all of which handle 85-86F temps consistently. Pretty sure all but one of our pandas are female. We have ours in a gravel tank. The discus and all the corys get along well. I have a few videos on my channel that include them if you would like to see them. We are planning a move to a larger tank soon and couldn't imagine not having corys!
@@_lucid_one great info! Much appreciated. 🤙
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My dwarf gourami hassles my albino cories at meal time but the cories have figured out that he has a short attention span. He rushes in to chase them off of whatever they're eating, they give way, he forgets why he was chasing them, they resume eating.
Thank you for calling out that you keep corys at a high ph. I want some but have been worried about my 8.0-8.2 ph.
Unfortunately, when starting back up into the fish hobby I bought like 4 panda corys and they were doing fine for a month or two… until a bad disease got three of them.
I have one panda cory left, but he has been quite the trooper. Going for almost 1.5 years now. I tried getting more buddies for it, but didn’t have luck with them during their quarantine. Hopefully later down the line I can get my panda cory some friends.
My water is at an 8.2 ph btw lol
I have 7 adult panda corys and also have high ph. They not only have been doing well but have had 8 babies that are growing nicely. This is in a community tank with lots of plants.
Awesome video! May I know what music you used in the beginning of this video? 😃
In 29g planted tank, 8-10 of these guys wouldn’t be too much would it? I was planning on adding a small school of either neon tetras or harlequin rasboras, and a german ram. Keep up the great work you guys do because it is so helpful. 🤟🏻
That works!
i just started a 10 gal with 1 bronze, 3 pepper, and 1 panda along with 6 zebra danios
Ok this one is in my top ten! Still waiting on my number one SRBP you can figure it out!
Panda Cory Cats are the best. Appreciate.
I have a like a silver tetra there best mates 😁
I love my Panda Corys.
I would love to have adolfoi cory or Venezuelan bronze cory.. But neither are available in my place or online.. So I settled for panda cory..
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I just miss that touch of orange that the first have.. Besides that all cory are super cute and lovable.. For some it maybe Guppy, Betta, Cichlids, Oscars or Arowana.. But for me Cory are the reason, I entered this hobby..
Hey there! Im looking for a help from someone experienced! I have male betta fish and after some reading and digging i decided to get him "friends" that will help me maintain the aquarium little bit. I decided to get cory panda's at my local pet store and I got 2 with possible to start with. I let them aclimate to the water, did some testing of the water, added CO2 plus, added Algumin plus and they were fine for few days. Sometimes hiding, but usually together on same spot. Last few days i noticed that they kinda separated and one of them was hiding and the other one was more active. Im usually a lot at home so i was watching them quite often watching how the betta reacts to them and he was ignoring them. But just now few moments ago I found one of the cory's dead in between plant leaves head facing up and I can't find the other one - i'll look more when during day its really early for me now. But honestly I have no idea how that happend. Both of them were quite small so not an adults. But I keep wondering why they separated, where is the other one and why the first one die? The betta was ignoring his corpse, but do you think its possible he did that? They have a lot of hiding spots in the aquarium and a lot of plants as well. Also I wasnt at home as much today but I 100% saw him alive few times during day when i was passing by and he was swimming arround and also "rubbing" or how should i call it his whiskers on the glass also with his head up... Is it possibly some kind of desease that makes them swimming like that? Is that why he died? It makes me sad :/ I had many fish in past when I was child, and then little bit older, but now I have these after long time and I also never had cory catfishes...
Sorry that happened. :-( Sometimes young fish can have a hard time acclimating to new environments. It might not be anything you did and I doubt the betta had anything to do with it given he was ignoring them when you were watching them.
I swear when they eat they share and are so courteous to one another
Kribensis and Corydoras actually go together Great!! (Same with Ram's)
Love my panda corys
I've thinking about getting 6 to 18 panda corys for my 90 gallon heavily planted tank. I'm wondering if my school of 6 full size roseline sharks and 3 adult size SAE will be intimidating to the panda corys. The SAE school with the sharks and they all do dig into the gravel after feedings. I do have some open areas in between some if the plants, and there are shady plces for them to hide. Also have live-bearers and tetras. Thanks
Most likely not - they kinda just do their own thing. 😀
Will different in Cory's create a shoal or do they have to be the same species of corys?🧐
If they look similar sometimes they will shoal together.
I have 6 love them
I have 6 with my baby reeves turtle. But i feed heavily since the turtle eats a lot
Can you mix different Cory cats together? Will they interact like they would with their own?
You can mis them. Some interact with each other and some species not as much.
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Good morning!
Great Cory Cat! Have you had these guys spawn for you?
Not the pandas - still a little small.
I’ve got 5 in a 10 gallon. But they only share the tank with shrimp and snails
I love my Cory Cats I have a 4 inch 3 year old Bronze 🐠 he is my center piece 🐠😃
Something I’ve been wondering for a while. Since corydoras will go to the surface to gulp air every once in a while, is there an upper limit on how tall your tank should be?
Not really - they do it so infrequently it doesn't play a huge role. I might not go much over a 3ft tall tank, but most tanks are fine.
In a 20 long.. how many neon tetras and Cory cats would work together do you think?
Maybe 10-12 neons and 6 Cory cats?
@@PrimeTimeAquatics would that number have to go down if I introduced a centerpiece fish? Say a dwarf gourami or ram?
Recommended number of panda corys for a 30 gallon? I plan to get a bristlenose pleco as well to go with my guppys I'm transferring from my 10 gallon.
8-10 would be cool!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics I had 6 in my head but 8 would be pretty sweet! Which Cory species are around the 1-1.5 inch mark?
Hello, I was wondering if panda corydoras would get along with electric blue acaras and geophagus tapajos?
It’s usually not an issue provided the panda corys are not small enough to be eaten.
Pandas are my favourite fish
Would the brightwell plant substrate work then or should I cap it with sand ?
I haven't used that substrate so I'm not sure?
Love them
Make sure the sand is rounded and not course, the corys like to dig and they will wear their barbuals right off.
Would Geo Tapajos leave Panda Corys alone in a 75 gal.?
Mine did
What about discus??
If You mean keeping them together then no because discus like hotter water but Sterbai corydoras are discus compatible
@@apss5736thanks for your help. I'll get sterbi then
I have a 36.g tank. How many u think i can put in. N can I put some albino Cory cat
You can do both - maybe 4-6 each?
would Congo Tetras work with them?
Yep!
What kind of Cory is good for eating pest snail babies?
None - but loaches often work - dwarf chain loaches are the smallest.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics I appreciate you always replying. I've read several articles about corys eating pest snails but then I saw about a million of them in your tank in this vid. I'll look into loaches. ❤️ Love you guys. Thanks for everything.
Hi Jason can you tell me what the measurements of this tank is please in inches?
About 30 x 12.5 x 12"
@@PrimeTimeAquatics ok thanks it's the same as the one i'm having made. It seems the U.K Don't do twenty gallon long as an off the shelf option.
How many Cory’s,Mollys,Plattys would you recommend for a 36 gallon?
You could probably do 6-8 Cory cats. I might choose either the mollies or plagues but not both to start. Maybe 8-10 and let them breed! 😀