Pigmy Cory
It allows keeping pygmy corydoras even in nano tanks.
Pigmy cory. Possibly the smallest catfish in the world. Hastatus has a dark diamond shaped spot at the caudal peduncle and lacks additional body markings. The pygmy corydoras is a peaceful hardy and small fish relatively common and quite popular in the aquarium hobby as they make a great addition to smaller tanks as well as community tanks as long as you think carefully when choosing their tank mates.
Avoid bigger fish as this small catfish can be intimidated and maybe out contended for food. An excellent choice for the smaller aquarium c. The pygmy cory is mainly found in the madeira river basin in brazil but populations are found across the south american continent.
It is an amazing small fish that got its name due to its tiny size. Pygmy cory from the sub family corydoradinae is native to freshwater bodies of the madeira river basin in brazil. The dwarf corydoras corydoras hastatus also goes by the common names of dwarf catfish and the pygmy cory.
The pygmy cory corydoras pygmaeus is the smallest of all the corydoras species. This species are not as brightly colored as other fishes but its size is its sufficient advantage. Pygmy corydoras corydoras pygmaeus is a representative of the callichthyidae family and the smallest of the bottom catfish that live in aquariums.
Corydoras hastatus gets to about an inch in size and can be kept in a small school in a 10 gallon or larger aquarium. The pygmy cory corydoras pygmaeus or pygmy catfish is a small freshwater fish from the corydoradinae sub family. This is a schooling and peaceful fish easy to maintain and breed.
Those little friends corydoras pygmaeus a k a. Pygmy cory are quite good at schooling. But you will find most of their population dwelling in the south american continent.
It originates in tropical inland waters in south america and is found in the madeira river basin in brazil. It is also known as pygmy corydoras. The pygmy corydoras or pygmy catfish corydoras pygmaeus is a tropical and freshwater fish belonging to the subfamily corydoradinae of the family callichthyidae.
Most often they are acquired as aquarium orderlies but these tiny catfishes have their fans in the fishkeeping world. Sometimes they follow otocinclus as you can see from this video. Corydoras pygmaeus is one of them.
Cory is short for corydoras which is their genus. Pygmaeus is one of a handful of tiny corydoras species. It s cousins corydoras hastatus and habrosus are also mistakenly called a pygmy cory.
