Pygmy cories! Best impulse purchase ever

[Lycosid]

Yesterday I was in the LFS (part of a much stranger story about a fish that hid out in a mostly-drained, shut down tank for a week) and I saw a school of

Corydoras pygmaeus

in the front tank (which they always have set up as a nano-tank, essentially). I'd been thinking about some cories for my community tank anyway, and they were cheap, there was a big school (so I could get enough to let them be social), and they weren't going to add a huge bioload to the tank, so I went ahead and bought seven.

These are amazing! I mean, I put them in a tank with an

Ancistrus cf_cirrhosus

(who hides 99% of the time), a

Farlowella vittata

(exactly as active as its namesake the twig), a single

Otocinclus vittatus

who used to have friends but is now a recluse, and a

Bunocephalus coracoideus

who lives up to the reputation he had at the LFS ("Sometimes we poke him to make sure he's alive"), but these guys are active! Unlike these guys the little pygmy cories swim around the heavily planted tank and are just super-fun. I walk into the room and I can tell there are live fish in the tank! Also, I think the Otocinclus is willing to accept the pygmies as other otos and has been out a lot more often.

[bekateen]

Cool. Good luck with your pygmies.

Cheers, Eric