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Sterbai Corydoras
Corydoras sterbai
Family: Callichthyidae
Sterbai corydoras are distinctive bottom-dwellers with a bold spotted pattern and bright orange pectoral fins. Unlike many corydoras they tolerate warmer water, making them suitable tankmates for discus and other warm-water species.
Keeping this species
- diet
- Omnivore – sinking pellets, wafers, bloodworms, daphnia
- lifespan
- 10–15 years
- max size
- 6.8 cm (2.7 in)
- tank size
- 20 gallons minimum
- school size
- 6+
- temperament
- Peaceful, social
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Water it likes
- ph
- 6.0–7.5
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <20 ppm
- hardness
- 2–15 dGH
- temperature
- 75–82°F (24–28°C)
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