60cm shallow corydoras tank

[dz.tng]

Hi everyone, I am new to UKAPS and this is my first post here. I have been in the hobby for about 8 months now.
This is a low tech tank with no co2 injection, scaped to make the corydoras feel at home and hopefully breed for me.

Let me know how you like this scape or if there is any changes I should make and improvements on
Cheers
Final full tank shot:

Title: Corydoras Haven

Dimensions: 60cm x 30cm x 18cm

CO2: nil

Filtration: Ehiem internal

Lights: Ikea grow light ( VÄXER LED )

Photo Period: 7hours

Fertilisation: tropica specialised fertiliser

Substrate: River gravels and pebbles

Hardscape: Driftwood and River stones

Flora:
Eleocharis acicularis 'mini'
Anubias nana petite
Nypmhaea Zenkeri
Mini Fissiden
Mini Christmas moss
Dwarf water lettuce


Fauna:
30 Corydoras Hastatus
8 Tucanoichthys tucano
3 otocinclus vittatus

 

[rebel]

Looks great! You have some really unique fish in that tank!

I want to see a picture with the fish in the front of the tank doing their thing.

 

[dz.tng]

 

[azawaza]

I’ve been eyeing the Tucano tetra for quite some time. They are very expensive here. Are they shy or do they swim to the front like normal tetras?

Awesome scape by the way

 

[doylecolmdoyle]

Looks cool, I love tiny corys, would have thought the corys would prefer some sand to dig into, have read hard substrates (even if they are smooth) can wear away the barbels on the cory cats

 

[Ray_Norwich]

Lovely tank, the wood looks awesome. I've recently bought a tank of the same dimensions, this is inspiring

 

[mort]

Looks cool, I love tiny corys, would have thought the corys would prefer some sand to dig into, have read hard substrates (even if they are smooth) can wear away the barbels on the cory cats

Whilst I believe this is true and always kept my cories with sand I've seen a couple of collecting videos from Peru lately that caught cories over some very coarse and sharp substrates. It might be that they were simply moving through but was quite inretesting to see..

 

[mort]

Beautiful tank.

 

[FJK_12]

Awesome scape

 

[dz.tng]

Hi Azawaza, Tucano are not really the boldest, but have very interesting characters. I often see them schooling alongside my Hastatus. Very fun to watch.

 

[rebel]

Love the video! Great schooling. Thanks for posting.

 

[Costa]

Great tank, but can the corys actually dig?

 

[Aquastu]

Great shallow tank. Even better that it is filled with Corys!

 

[Jacob Coleman]

Great scape are the corydoras very shy and hide ?