Flourite VS. Cory Cats

[Newman]

Would Flourite gravel be considered too sharp for cories? I dont want their barbels to be sliced off

Would it help if i make a hairgrass and moss carpet over the flourite, before adding the cories?

 

[Frogki]

IDK I do know that I have a juli cory and he does fine on my regular ol blue gravel... He's not to good an algea cleaner though...

 

[Newman]

Regular gravel is a lot different than flourite man. flurite seems to have sharp edges around every clay piece. I'm a bit concerned.

Not a good algae cleaner cuz hes mostly a scavenger for dead animal and plant matter. He'll nip at algae wafers, but he would much rather like frozen bloodworms, and freezedried brine shrimps. Carnivorous catfish pellets might be eaten too. I know what they eat, im just asking how they will do in this gravel? will they injure their whiskers?

 

[stoddern]

I have flourite in my tank and it does soften up alil over time some if it even goeas right back to normal claay but most of it gets to the point where during cleaning it just crumbles, I mixed mine with the normal coated gravel and all my fish and plants seem fine even my gouami both of whom will scavange around the bottom of the tank

 

[Newman]

ok good, so planting the bottom would help even more i assume. thanks for the input, now i have little to wory about when adding my cories.