Pygmaeus Fry

I'm trying not to give up and wave the white flag. I'm hoping if I can figure this out it will help everyone here who would like to raise pygmy cories. If I ever do give up, I will rehome them. They are too small to be housed in any of my other tanks with my other fish. Can you just picture them coming face to face with a discus or being followed routinely by the "monkey" loaches! :D

On a brighter note, I have several embers that have nice plump bellies. They really love the live white worms I feed. I had placed a clump of moss in the upper left hand corner of that tank to give the new molly fry some cover since most of them are staying high rather than low hiding in the plants, and this morning I had a plump ember underneath the moss, in the middle, with 7 or 8 slimmer embers circling all round her, over and over again. I've not seen any of them do that before. So....who knows!
 
Mine do this alot too! But they go into a large sword plant. I want to try collecting soon as well with the embers. Let me know what happens with yours!
 
It pays to stare at your gravel!

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This cutie is bigger than the other two I have been watching. He actually looks like a baby cory now, but dang....still dives into the gravel. I think I might have seen 2, one on each side of the tank. Wish the pictures were better but he was quick!! And then gone again!

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awesome. that's cool how their shells start off small too. grow almost like bone i'd assume. i always thought they found their shells and inhabited them. as you can tell i'm a newbie.

by the by, i have a baby snail of some sort that must have hitchhiked on a piece of driftwood from my lps. i'm just gonna let him chill. anything i should know about keeping him?
 
awesome. that's cool how their shells start off small too. grow almost like bone i'd assume. i always thought they found their shells and inhabited them. as you can tell i'm a newbie.

by the by, i have a baby snail of some sort that must have hitchhiked on a piece of driftwood from my lps. i'm just gonna let him chill. anything i should know about keeping him?

Lol we're talking about the cory's not the snails, but post a pic in another thread and we can help id your snail.

BTW, gratz on finding some more large fry!
 
Funny! The cory fry is in the center of pic 1 facing out towards us, it's behind the snail in pic 2 (head in the gravel) and you can see his tail and body in pic 3 (still poking his head in the gravel). This is a major accomplishment. I've been trying to get surviving fry past the 2-3 week point for 6 months!:D
 
I suspected that your water params. and temp. were all in check, but thought I'd ask since that info hadn't been disclosed in the thread yet. It's great that you found another older pygmy! Crossing my fingers for you!
 
Hahah my cories spawned today and laid eggs all over my apple snails :D

Good luck with your pygmy cats!
 
Great news Debbi!

Just a thought, what's your air temp above the water surface? Don't know about you but I keep my house kinda coolish, ~68*F in winter. I know the water & lights help but maybe the older babies surface more & possibly chill their tiny tummies?
 
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