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Carpets with Cory?

Sacha

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I have some Staurogyne Repens due to arrive today.

Ultimately, I would love to make it a big carpet.

The thing is, cory are sand- sifters. If I cover up the sand, the cory won't be as happy, will they?
 
Just leave a little space at the front of the tank for them. Carpets with a small patch of bare substrate in front of them look nice, in my opinion.
 
Good luck! Although when I had some stauro in my tank it was one of the better Cory resistant plants! Eleo mini, Marsilea etc was uprooted faster than I could replant (and ultimately had to go). They pull at my ranalisma a fair bit, but i've put this on the gravelled area of my tank now and that helps a lot :)
 
My stauro can withstand a 6" snowball pleco rooting about in it with only the occasional plantlet uprooted. I find it tend to root fine after a while. I struggle with him digging up many plantlets like young blyxa before it is rooted and freshly planted marsilea before it roots properly.
 
I was sold some pigmy corys. Not sure if that's the correct name? they are tiny and don't disturb anything. Also we have pepperd ones in a tank with light weight cat litter and plants seem ok.. I love corys they remind me Of a golden Labrador they clean anything up :D
 
I have a group of 5 pandas in my tank. I did contemplate pygmy corys but i was told they were a mid column shoaling fish more than a bottom dweller.
 
I have a group of 5 pandas in my tank. I did contemplate pygmy corys but i was told they were a mid column shoaling fish more than a bottom dweller.
Your right I have noticed that.
 
Stauro puts out really long, deep roots in a couple of weeks or so. I'd imagine it to be ok. New plantlets will need replanting until they take hold, but it really shouldn't take long.
 
I have a group of 5 pandas in my tank. I did contemplate pygmy corys but i was told they were a mid column shoaling fish more than a bottom dweller.
pygmys feed on the bottom, mine spend most of their time rummaging in sand
 
IME they ain't actually that bothered. Sometimes perhaps we get a little too precious. Mine were fine rooting around amongst a carpet of mini hair grass, which incidentaly they didn't up root..
 
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