I have about 15 in a heavy planted 20 gal long tank. I say about because I think I have spotted 2 babies. But, I am still trying to confirm that. I love everything about these guys!
I have 6 in my 55 gallon with a few hundred shrimp. They are pretty amazing little fish. Occasionally strike the top of the water which shows how fast they can be when they want to. Most of the time they perch themselves on a log or a leaf and look like they regret how much they ate.
Just recently added 4 Pygmy Cory’s to my 15 gallon planted tank with shrimp, Ottos and some of my “retired male guppies” I’m definitely going back to get 4 more! They are so cute and entertaining. Great video!
1. I had a single pimgy living happy forever in a shrimp tank, crazy am i right? Always relaxed and following its companions, it became a shrimp! 2. I have 150-200 pigmys in a heavily planted 55 gallon tank, sometimes it looks totally empty(of their species) because they hide behind a huge moss wall occupying the entire back wall, with easy room in the back of it to navigate/live, so numbers mean nothing in terms of shyness and you will usually see around 100 at most if lucky. Groups seem to have independent times for activities, still no clue how they make decisions 🤣 3. Also when in great numbers, social groups seem to form and sometimes they banish 1 individual which will be left exposed with some tail fin nip since the individual is in a fish tank, not an open body of water outside that it can escape and maybe find a new social group to belong to, or be predated upon. 4. Yes they will eat anything and everywhere. Mine have ran the seed shrimp population extinct, moina too, and they will even search for food under floaters, inside the thick fissidens moss, on plants of all heights. When you feed you want to feed the "aquarium" itself, it keeps them active and scavenging. Don't plop some food in there they can gobble up and then stay inactive the entire day. I know it sounds crazy but activity is good. My personal favourite is powdered food but for an unprepared tank/aquarist that is a sure way to skyrocket nitrates if you don't have enough consumers. 5. When mine eat they will often go around in groups of 20-30 and you can see them staying somewhat withing range of their social group during activities, but newborn and juveniles seem to be more "lala land" care free existence lol, they are often found scouting on their own and remaining in open spaces alone. 6. My pigmy corys if given the choice they will 100% prefer searching for food inside an ultra fine sand bed over any gravel, 1/4" lava rock, or soft round pebbles, plant type. Population locations and density speak volumes, ultra fine sand always wins. Hope this helps someone new that can't afford to "test everything".
Thank you for your incredible feedback. I've never seen someone have so many in one tank. It definitely sheds a new perspective when there's a lot more that can be observed.
@@shrimplycanadian The worst part man is it all started with 5 in that tank and I did nothing but my usual "feed the tank" routine and now I have an army I can't catch to give away. I am also in canada but the tank is in an "ultra rare" 4 walls with no cold wall exposure(they dont make them anymore because you apparently need a window or a door to throw yourself out of in case of fire LOL, and the tank is year round 26-29C due to lights heating it up and the lid. Never ever seen fish illness and nitrates showing 0-5ppm, my biggest battle was crushing the ramshorn snails manually, I wake up and my routine starts with genocide ☠ before the lights turn on because they are all out in the open during night. When I crush them, shrimp wage wars to eat them, even otos try to zoom in to eat freshly crushed snails (yes I have proof lol) and pigmy cory do the same. Maintaining water KH with that many shrimp that absorb most of it through water with respiration has been rough when snails were around and I don't feed any Ca/Mg rich targetted food, yet powdered eggshells have proven to be a beast and I am thankful to people that helped me get started when I needed lots of them. Glad you like these little guys, they are fun to watch! 😎
@@markknudsen1755 I don't use it in any of my tanks because playing with PH just adds risk and instability and more monitoring, some people have time for that, I dont. The one aquarium that houses the unlawfully reproductive pigmys though has a significant portion of "Super Natural Moonlight Sand" if it helps
@ragingcalmness7815 guessing plants grow fine/well in the sand? Sometimes hear sand is not as good due to "getting compact". Edit: Looked up the sand you mentioned. Saw there's also Sunset and Jungle River versions. Have you used them as well? Thanks for your input as well
Your videos are helping me on my aquarium journey! I have loved watching them so much. My planted tank is set up right now, only 3 weeks old with 3 snails. Can't wait to get pygmy Corya for it!! But first I'm getting shrimp :) love all your shrimp videos.
We started with 5 pygmy cories (after losing one during quarantine), but they rarely came out, as apparently the tankmate neon tetras were way too scary. I thought it likely that a few more probably didn't make it, so purchased another 5 to bolster the survivors' school. While those were quarantined, I did a big plant trim... and found all 5 originals, plus a tiny tank-bred fry that was actually the bravest among them for a while! So, I think we have 11 in the school, although once again they're rarely coming out. I will take a thorough census before picking up any more!
These fish are shy in nature and so if you have a heavily planted tank, they may choose to hide a lot more. In one of my first tanks and even in my 20 gallon long, I barely saw them but I'm lucky with this new 10 gallon that they love being out in the open.
I love pygmy corys, but i think they're so popular that the other two nano corys like habrosus and hastatus are overlooked. Especially habrosus since they act like more like corys in the sense that they graze and stay mostly on the bottom while pygmys do have that but they go everywhere in the tank. Also doesn't help that habrosus are rarely in stock.
@shrimplycanadian they're wild caught, so they are very sensitive, but once you get them eating and fully established, they're a great nano cory. Hopefully, I can breed them since it's not very common in captivity.
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I just got mine last sunday together with some panda garra. They made my tank lively. What gravel/substrate is this around 3:10 time? ruclips.net/video/l94alwgqDPA/видео.html Where did you get that? I like how it looks.
The substrate I used was Caribsea Midnight River. I got it at my local fish store. Here is the build video for this tank: ruclips.net/video/lf0uyYF9iPI/видео.html
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I have about 15 in a heavy planted 20 gal long tank. I say about because I think I have spotted 2 babies. But, I am still trying to confirm that. I love everything about these guys!
I have 6 in my 55 gallon with a few hundred shrimp. They are pretty amazing little fish.
Occasionally strike the top of the water which shows how fast they can be when they want to. Most of the time they perch themselves on a log or a leaf and look like they regret how much they ate.
I have 5 right now- they’re very social and super active; over 2 years old. Extremely cute!
Just recently added 4 Pygmy Cory’s to my 15 gallon planted tank with shrimp, Ottos and some of my “retired male guppies” I’m definitely going back to get 4 more! They are so cute and entertaining.
Great video!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
This video came out at the perfect time, I was about to search for Pygmy Corys
I'm glad you found it :)
1. I had a single pimgy living happy forever in a shrimp tank, crazy am i right? Always relaxed and following its companions, it became a shrimp!
2. I have 150-200 pigmys in a heavily planted 55 gallon tank, sometimes it looks totally empty(of their species) because they hide behind a huge moss wall occupying the entire back wall, with easy room in the back of it to navigate/live, so numbers mean nothing in terms of shyness and you will usually see around 100 at most if lucky. Groups seem to have independent times for activities, still no clue how they make decisions 🤣
3. Also when in great numbers, social groups seem to form and sometimes they banish 1 individual which will be left exposed with some tail fin nip since the individual is in a fish tank, not an open body of water outside that it can escape and maybe find a new social group to belong to, or be predated upon.
4. Yes they will eat anything and everywhere. Mine have ran the seed shrimp population extinct, moina too, and they will even search for food under floaters, inside the thick fissidens moss, on plants of all heights. When you feed you want to feed the "aquarium" itself, it keeps them active and scavenging. Don't plop some food in there they can gobble up and then stay inactive the entire day. I know it sounds crazy but activity is good. My personal favourite is powdered food but for an unprepared tank/aquarist that is a sure way to skyrocket nitrates if you don't have enough consumers.
5. When mine eat they will often go around in groups of 20-30 and you can see them staying somewhat withing range of their social group during activities, but newborn and juveniles seem to be more "lala land" care free existence lol, they are often found scouting on their own and remaining in open spaces alone.
6. My pigmy corys if given the choice they will 100% prefer searching for food inside an ultra fine sand bed over any gravel, 1/4" lava rock, or soft round pebbles, plant type. Population locations and density speak volumes, ultra fine sand always wins. Hope this helps someone new that can't afford to "test everything".
Thank you for your incredible feedback. I've never seen someone have so many in one tank. It definitely sheds a new perspective when there's a lot more that can be observed.
@@shrimplycanadian The worst part man is it all started with 5 in that tank and I did nothing but my usual "feed the tank" routine and now I have an army I can't catch to give away. I am also in canada but the tank is in an "ultra rare" 4 walls with no cold wall exposure(they dont make them anymore because you apparently need a window or a door to throw yourself out of in case of fire LOL, and the tank is year round 26-29C due to lights heating it up and the lid. Never ever seen fish illness and nitrates showing 0-5ppm, my biggest battle was crushing the ramshorn snails manually, I wake up and my routine starts with genocide ☠ before the lights turn on because they are all out in the open during night. When I crush them, shrimp wage wars to eat them, even otos try to zoom in to eat freshly crushed snails (yes I have proof lol) and pigmy cory do the same. Maintaining water KH with that many shrimp that absorb most of it through water with respiration has been rough when snails were around and I don't feed any Ca/Mg rich targetted food, yet powdered eggshells have proven to be a beast and I am thankful to people that helped me get started when I needed lots of them. Glad you like these little guys, they are fun to watch! 😎
How'd you compare stratum like from Fluval to sand for the Pygmys? 🤔
@@markknudsen1755 I don't use it in any of my tanks because playing with PH just adds risk and instability and more monitoring, some people have time for that, I dont. The one aquarium that houses the unlawfully reproductive pigmys though has a significant portion of "Super Natural Moonlight Sand" if it helps
@ragingcalmness7815 guessing plants grow fine/well in the sand? Sometimes hear sand is not as good due to "getting compact".
Edit: Looked up the sand you mentioned. Saw there's also Sunset and Jungle River versions. Have you used them as well?
Thanks for your input as well
Your videos are helping me on my aquarium journey! I have loved watching them so much. My planted tank is set up right now, only 3 weeks old with 3 snails. Can't wait to get pygmy Corya for it!! But first I'm getting shrimp :) love all your shrimp videos.
Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you're finding my videos helpful 😊
I was looking a corys for when my new 20 gallon is cycled. Nice to know they can do ok with cherries!
I’m right there with you buddy. Waiting for at least a month before I put shrimp in there first
We started with 5 pygmy cories (after losing one during quarantine), but they rarely came out, as apparently the tankmate neon tetras were way too scary. I thought it likely that a few more probably didn't make it, so purchased another 5 to bolster the survivors' school. While those were quarantined, I did a big plant trim... and found all 5 originals, plus a tiny tank-bred fry that was actually the bravest among them for a while! So, I think we have 11 in the school, although once again they're rarely coming out. I will take a thorough census before picking up any more!
These fish are shy in nature and so if you have a heavily planted tank, they may choose to hide a lot more. In one of my first tanks and even in my 20 gallon long, I barely saw them but I'm lucky with this new 10 gallon that they love being out in the open.
Love the video and the Corys
Thank you very much 😊
1:08 and a "Hungry" gourami 🐟
😂
I love pygmy corys, but i think they're so popular that the other two nano corys like habrosus and hastatus are overlooked. Especially habrosus since they act like more like corys in the sense that they graze and stay mostly on the bottom while pygmys do have that but they go everywhere in the tank. Also doesn't help that habrosus are rarely in stock.
and they also have more of that classic cory look.
I did have these at one point but for some reason, these fish were way more sensitive than the Pygmys and kept dying on me.
@shrimplycanadian they're wild caught, so they are very sensitive, but once you get them eating and fully established, they're a great nano cory. Hopefully, I can breed them since it's not very common in captivity.
What are your thoughts on Pygmy Corydoras? Would you consider adding them to your community tank, especially alongside Neocaridina Shrimp?
All of my content is free for you to enjoy and learn from. If you'd like to support me, consider becoming a member of the Skittle Squad: *Patreon* (bit.ly/4a6bvNx) or *RUclips Membership* (bit.ly/3UECzzr)
Is HOB cant be use for pygmy?
You can use a HOB if you want. I'm using an Aquaclear 20 for my Pygmy Cory tank.
Such cute little dudes ❤
Yes they are :)
Will these fish survive in dinkle water?
I'm not sure what dinkle water is...
I’ve kept them for over a year and have found them very hardy. Surviving in temps as low as 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
Oh nice :) This tank of mine is at 78 F as I have a Betta in there.
I just got mine last sunday together with some panda garra. They made my tank lively.
What gravel/substrate is this around 3:10 time? ruclips.net/video/l94alwgqDPA/видео.html
Where did you get that? I like how it looks.
The substrate I used was Caribsea Midnight River. I got it at my local fish store. Here is the build video for this tank: ruclips.net/video/lf0uyYF9iPI/видео.html
I bought 9 pygmies 5 missing in just 1 day. I have a lid on my tank.
They could be hiding and trying to get used to their new surroundings.
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Eat one 😊