Dwarf Cory
Set your heater to 72 79 f and make sure the ph stays within 6 8.
Dwarf cory. Tail spot cory corydoras hastatusadult size. By chris ralph. The dwarf corydoras is a very well known freshwater aquarium fish due to its body shape and attractive transparent coloration.
The dwarf corydoras corydoras hastatus also goes by the common names of dwarf catfish and the pygmy cory. The only other pieces of equipment you need is an efficient filter and standard aquarium lighting. I use a semi permanent setup and move the breeders back to the main tank after fry and juvenile populations begin to get too large.
Pygmy corydoras looks much like any other cory except that they don t grow bigger than one inch long. Up to 3 2 centimeters 1 3 in usual 1 inch long 2 2 5 cm. Pygmy cory would enjoy swimming through a carpet of dwarf hairgrass but taller plants like amazon swords and java fern work well too.
All three can be set up in pretty much the same way. The dwarf corydoras corydoras hastatus was first discovered by carl h. 72 f 78 f 22 to 26 c ph.
It is a tropical freshwater fish which belongs to the family callichthyidae sub family corydoradinae under order siluriformes of class actinopterygii osteichthyes. Here are numerous species of corydoras available to the hobbyist many of which have been described for years some of which have only recently been discovered and are awaiting identification and subsequent naming. The pygmy cory has an unbroken black line running along the whole length of the side of.
The checker cory is almost as easy while the dwarf cory is by far the most challenging. There are three species of dwarf corydoras c. The pygmy cory is the easiest of the three species to induce to spawn.
The dwarf corydoras corydoras hastatus dwarf catfish tail spot pygmy catfish or micro catfish is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the subfamily corydoradinae of the family callichthyidae it originates in inland waters in south america and is found in the amazon river and paraguay river basins in argentina bolivia and brazil. Pygmy corydoras pygmy cory dwarf corydoras dwarf catfish pygmy fish pygmy catfish dwarf cory. Corydoras hastatus gets to about an inch in size and can be kept in a small school in a 10 gallon or larger aquarium.
10 gallons and more. Foraging omnivore readily accepts dried frozen or live foodsbehavior. The specific epithet hastatus means with a spear in.
