And then there was 1....

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mshill90

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Head over to petsmart to get some goodies with their $1 sale..

I go in, and I tell the lady I want..

All 20+ danios they have.
5 Mystery Snails
3 Albino cory cats.

She gives up on the danios after catching 4...

So we move on, get my fish..

I go home.. drop the danios in the qt tank.. snails go in the snail tank..

Corys go in my 75 community.

I look over into the 75 not even 10 mins of them being in there.. 1 is huddled in the corner surrounded by my clown loaches.. so I move him to a different tank.. I'm looking around for the other 2..

I see one of my African Leaf fish with one in it's mouth, and then I look over, and there's another Leaf fish with 1 in it's mouth..

WTF?! They don't bother anyone in my tank- but they had to eat these cute guys.

And my 17" RTxTSN in my other tank has a gash on his head... :(
 
hope the cories barbs dont hurt the leaf fish, though you should expect that they'll eat anything that fits in their mouth usually (though you said your fish doesn't bother anything else so who knows)
 
The cories were done in a matter if seconds and the leaf fish are fine... They are one step closer to a visit with the toilet though. Haha.
 
So, I'm down stairs yesterday checking out all the fish when I notice a cory cats body in my 75.. so I grab a net and prepare to scoop it out, when all of a sudden it darts across the tank!

The poor little guy managed to survive! He's got some ripped fins, but other than that, no pysical damage.

I scooped him out, and he now lives happily in the 30 gallon with the other.
 
I had the same problem in my 55 recently. The fish that have been in there have shown absolutely no aggression. I put some bleeding heart tetras in a Cichlid breeder tank to act as dithers. One was snatched right away. I quickly moved the rest to the 55 where soon two more were gone! I assume the color or swim pattern must appear tasty lol.
 
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