pygmy cory question

When I had one corner of my tank full of swords I almost never saw my cories but after spreading out the plants they are much more visible and are very active. My Dwarf Gourami has made them even more active since I got him, they go out of their way to follow him around.
 
Maybe I'll move the plants around. I just redid my 10g shrimp tank (got rid of like 200+ shrimps), and cleaned the substrate (seachem onyx sand) and was thinking about moving the cories into the newly set up tank when its cycled. Would there be any problem with their barbels and the onyx sand? I'm hoping to get them to breed... I heard it wasn't that hard, so I wanted to try and see if I could get more of them!
 
Well, There are 18 fish in your 10 gallon tank... I would get a test kit!

You could have very high nitrAtes, which many cories are sensitive to. You may have to increase the frequency of water changes, depending on where you are at, but get the test kit first.
 
I've moved my cories to their own 10g tank, and now they are active! but I'm feeding them hikari sinking wafers and also hikari algae wafers, and they don't really seem to take to either one. What else should I try? I'd feed them the frozen blood worms, but each of the cubes are way to large, and I'm afraid would foul up the tank really fast. I'd prefer to feed them flakes or other sinking wafers, if anyone has any suggestions.
 
I use HBH Super soft mini pellets for my cories. Along with flake, shirmp pellets, algae tabs, frozen mysis shrimp. Make sure to get a test kit. The cories are at the bottom they will feel the affects of 'bad' water first. i also have had a horrible time keeping pygmy cories. I feel your pain.
 
Ok, I got a test kit.

PH: 7.6 (or above, the kit only reads to 7.6)
AM: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 5 ppm

Thats for my new cory tank.
 
Sounds like you have good water for your cories. I feed my habrosus, also a pygmy, with flake food and sometimes give them frozen daphnia. A block of the daphnia is too much just for them but I thaw it in a drinking glass half full of tank water from a healthy tank. Then I swish out enough for each tank for the fish that are in that tank. This means that my endler fry get a good growth food and my cories get a good conditioning food without overfeeding either one.
 
davcheng said:
Thats a good idea... has anyone gotten them to spawn successfully?
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I have spawned some of the bigger corys but neither of the dwarfs. I think they about all the same.
 
Omega One Veggie Rounds and New Life Spectrum Community food both go over well with the corys in my household.
 
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