I recently moved my school of 6 pygmy corys into their own 10g, and they laid eggs literally the next day now the first few are starting to hatch! This is my first time ever breeding fish as i’m relatively new to the hobby but i’m so excited.
Just thought that I would share some pictures of two of my main ladies, Zip, the albino and Zap, the chonky bronze.
Zip lives up to her name and Zips all around the tank like a little flash of lighting.
I got Zap in pretty bad shape, tiny, torn dorsal fin and missing barbels on one side, but look at her now! Doubled in size and looks like a model.
Corydoras are really just so awesome, I can talk about them all day.
P.S the first pic is my favourite, though it looks as if they are plotting something!
J
That pygmies were so cute😭
A relatively new set up but really I just moved all of my old shrimp/snail tank into a new one more suited to cories. my LFS only had this one little guy for 16$. Of course I wasn't gonna leave him there by himself so I bought him and also bought another pack of 6 online since no other shops in a 40 mile drive had any. Can't wait for his buddies to arrive.
Hi,
I started off with six panda corydoras but they are breeding like crazy, I now have at least 20 of all different ages. The babies are cute but I can't keep them all. Is there anyway to get them to stop breeding so much?
have four Corys that seem happy as can be with a couple Gourami for tank mates. school of rasboras or tetras coming soon to round out the nano tank.
longfin albino corydoras fry. Just started eating today after absorbing their egg yolk.
please help idk if he is just fat or am I endearing my fish please help I don't want any of my children to die
Have just noticed a little bump on my eques Cory, can anyone identify what it is ? Is it some sort of parasite or growth ? Have temporarily separated him from the tank until I know what it is. He seems to be fine otherwise. Any help /guidance is appreciated
is there such thing as a species of corys that are the most hardiest?
about a month ago i purchased 6 sterbai cories from my local aquarium store and because the the tank I was putting them in was uninhabited I didn’t quarantine them. I just put them straight into the tank because I was thinking I’d be able to monitor them fine that I noticed maybe two weeks ago one of them started to have a fungal like breakout on its skin. At at the time I had API primafix on hands but after looking into that products, I noticed most other uses said it pretty much did nothing. I went and purchased blue planets multi cure. I did a week of that treatment and I saw no improvement. I asked ChatGPT and it told me to try blue planet tri sulfa tablets and I just finished a week treatment. I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong or if the fish is just doomed or if I’m treating a fungal infection when it’s really something else can someone please help me. if the fish is doomed, is it more humane to just euthanise it because I read I read that fungal infections can eventually grow over the gills and suffocate the fish to this which I think would be incredibly cruel to just watch happen. help me save this fishy
So it’s an 18 gal and fully planted what can I add to it? As I wanna give my babies the best!!!
This is my first time owning pygmy cories, and I got three from a lfs. They were doing perfectly fine for two weeks, very active and playful in my 10 gallon with small school of tetras. The plan was to get a few, see how they did, and then get some more after my school loans are paid off at the end of the year.
At the two week mark, two of the three started swimming weakly, erratically, and upside down, and ended up passing within a day. I talked to the shop owner, and he said he'd never heard of that happening with them. I chalked it up to some sort of unknown illness, but the third one just started acting the same way a week and a half after the other two passed and I don't have high hopes for his survival.
The tank is at about 72 degrees (I didn't know I needed a heater with pygmies, I'm planning to get one after I do my next loan payment) and water conditions are perfect.
Is there something I'm missing? I really love my cories and I'd hate to be doing something wrong that's killing them off by mistake.