Pygmy Cories

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ddlbrooks

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I have three pygmy cories and am going to try and get more. My lfs breed them but the supply is still limited so it's hard to get them before others do. They are really difficult to see in my tank though, I was wondering if I can't seem to add to the pygmy group due to availability, would it help them to be more active and secure to add a group of other cories. Would they run together?
Thanks
 
I'm just guessing but probably not so much...pygmies seem to spend more time in the middle regions of the tank compared to larger corys which are more bottom bound. I've also personally seen when I mixed corys that they tend to stick together in groups of the same species more than mixing all together.
 
I've read Pygmy cories will school with a certain tetra that has very similar markings... Someone here has them - check the gallery for petrified forest tank. Can't remember poster off-hand.
 
Agree with jpappy, I have pandas and peppers in the same tank and they do tend to separate by species. But I now have three of each, and they seem perfectly okay in these numbers. And the pygmy is more of a free-swimming species than other cories, I think.
 
My habrosus and pygamaeus school together but do separate into species groups from time to time. The habrosus seem to like hanging out with my otos also, especially since they look so similar.
 
When I had black neon tetras (about two or three years ago), the pygmies I had at the time (see pic on your left) approached them to play. I figured it was because the black neons had similar striped colors. I have 4 pygmies in with ~7 glow-light tetras and they mostly ignore each other, just passing as they do their business or play around.
 
Depends on the size of the tand how much cover you have for them. But my pygmys will school with just about anything that is already schooling like my rasporas or my neons. They tend to stay away from the loner fish
 
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