Pygmy cories! Best impulse purchase ever
Posted: 30 Apr 2018, 00:40
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 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 (who hides 99% of the time), a (exactly as active as its namesake the twig), a single who used to have friends but is now a recluse, and a 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.
