Corydoras Habrosus

[waterfaller1]

Anyone keeping these tiny little guys?
I ordered 3 to arrive next week for one of my nanos.
They grow to only 1/2"..so cute!

[bharada]

I have a few in my 120g tank. But they do grow larger than 1/2". My adult females are closer to 1" while the males are ~3/4".

[waterfaller1]

Thanks Bill, what are they eating? The size is still ok.

[bharada]

They eat whatever get's but the mid-level fish. haha

I do toss in algae wafers and sinking pellets a couple of times a week specifically for my bottom feeders. But in a small tank like yours you need to be careful about overfeeding.

[boink]

are these cories sensitive at all? i bought 10 and 6 have died--not sure if they died and stuck to the filter intake or stuck to the filter intake and died....=/

[waterfaller1]

Healthy fish usually do not get stuck to a filter IME, some may rest there...but not 'get stuck'..

[JustOneMore21]

C. habrosus can get just over 1".....a tad bigger than 1/2". You really should have more than 3. Dwarf cories really thrive in large groups IME, but in a nano you will be limiting.

How many gallons is your tank? I wouldn't keep them in anything less than 5g. They are pretty active for cories......atleast my C. hastatus are and I'd expect the other dwarves to have similar behavior.

[waterfaller1]

Thanks for your reply. The tank they will be in is 4.3 gal, 4 gal after displacement. It is planted, and has a goby breeding pod for them to hide in. Other inhabitant is a spixi snail.

[bharada]

I've had habrosus in two tanks. I had five in a six gallon tank and 10 in a 120g tank. In both cases the first week or two after introduction to the tank they swam in schools up and down the sides of the tank...like a swarm of flies. It was very distracting visually. I was so glad when they finally settled in and started acting like typical Corys, rummaging through the undergrowth.

[Contrast]

Nope, none in my tank, none yet i should say.

[waterfaller1]

Ok..plan change. They will be in a 10 gallon tank, and I am going to try to get 5.

[epicfish]

Where are you getting them from? Looking for a few for my tank too.

[dekstr]

Wow I really wanted to get the habrosus for myself during the fall.
But they were quite expensive. I talked to a LFS manager and he said usually they are not worth importing because they have a short life span, aren't as popular and are more expensive than the regular pygmy cory. So it's great someone is keeping them.

Great info about this fish can be found here: http://fish.mongabay.com/species/Cor...0habrosus.html



I have 18 something pygmy cories in a 55 gallon. I had 6 at first, but they were always hiding. I added 5-6 at a time over the past few months. They are really shy fish, but feel safer in a large group! They only appear during feeding time, and they come out in mass, so that's really neat.


However, when I had kept the original 6 in a 20 gallon, they were a lot more visible and less shy. I believe this to be due to the more heavily planted tank + smaller tank = easier to find hiding fish.

So please keep us updated on how they behave once they arrive!

[waterfaller1]

I am getting them here, they also have them listed on AB from the same guy. They were $1.50 and he is sending me a free one.

http://flguppiesplus.safeshopper.com/297/cat297.htm?92

[bsmith782]

I had 12 in a 12g Eclipse. I will concure that they are way harder to keep than a regular corie (thats not saying too much though as you could almost keep regular cories in boiling gas!). After having them for a year and a half I have 1 left. He hangs out with my rcs/crs.