Salt and pepper cory
Corydoras habrosus
Also called habrosus, checker cory.
Small enough for a 45 cm tank, which almost no other cory is.
What it needs
- Grows to
- 3 cm
- Smallest sensible tank
- 45 L, at least 45 cm long
- Temperature
- 22 to 27 °C
- pH
- 6 to 7.5
- Hardness
- 2 to 12 dGH
- Kept in
- groups of 6 or more
- Temperament
- peaceful
- Eats
- omnivore
- Swims
- near the bottom
- How hard
- easy
- Lives
- about 5 years
These are the figures the stocking advice is built on. Make a room and it will tell you whether a salt and pepper cory fits the tank you have.