Hey kangals! How are your tanks going? I've recently wanted to convert one of my tanks into a planted so am scouring the nets for info - also I heard corycats tend to only school with their own species, so albinos only with albinos, pandas only with pandas, is your panda schooling with the others?
My panda doesn’t seem to have a problem schooling with my albinos, it regularly hangs out with the rest of them and doesn’t seem to be exhibiting any behaviors that would indicate it’s stressed at all. I had a Schwartzi that schooled just fine with them as well. That being said, when I had two pandas they did seem to prefer each other over the albinos, so I would say from my own experience a group of the same phase is ideal, but mixing shouldn’t be a problem either.Â
My tanks are doing pretty good! I was having a hard time getting neons hardy enough to hang around but I think I finally solved it and their school is back up to a healthy 10. I’m debating trying out some amano shrimp at some point, I don’t trust that they’re big enough that my gourami wouldn’t try to eat them, he’s kind of a prick like that. I definitely 100% encourage planting your tanks, I am continually amazed by how much joy seeing the little green buds give me. I’m really getting the itch to pick up some more plants honestly. It’s an itch that never goes away.












