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Kevin Esko - 7 years ago

So dirty! Someone needs to get in there with a gravel vac

Mr Penguin - 7 years ago

sir your river is overstocked

Liam does stuff 12 - 7 years ago

So this is what heaven looks like

the amphibian and fish channel - 7 years ago

its a swarm of cuttness

Mar tin - 7 years ago

Wow, this is so much better than any fishtank. They say you should keep at least 6 fishs in one group. They probably still feel more happy as 600...

Mar tin - 7 years ago

Question is: good size for whom? For the owner = fish not dying. For the fish --> but don't keep them and leave them in the wild. It is only my opinion and is basically incompatible with the whole concept of pets :-( That's why you end up with the 8 Cory compromises. If you tell to buy minimum 600, people will go "Whatever. Then I'll just buy pair."

Random User - 7 years ago

Mar tin Completely true but do you think these fish would sell if people told you to keep it in groups of 12 or more (minimum school size for them to act decently IMO)? It is actually sad to enter fish forums and see the "stocking experts" stocking 8 corydoras and calling it a good sized school.

busa89 - 8 years ago

I have 4 of these guys. really active. get along with basically anything. awesome fish

busa89 - 7 years ago

Random User thanks for the advice nobody asked for. I'll flush my fish today just to make you feel better.

Random User - 7 years ago

busa89 If you can't keep them in proper size schools don't get them in the first place. That is egotistic.
Your tank, your crap at the end of the day, but you haven't seen the full corydora potential if you keep them in small groups.

busa89 - 7 years ago

I should have however many I want without overcrowding my tank.

Random User - 7 years ago

You should have 6+

XJustice Leaguex - 8 years ago

they are getting ready for the big march

XJustice Leaguex - 8 years ago

Thats alot of them!

TheBSideDJ - 8 years ago

how beautiful is that !!!

10. comment for Corydoras in the Amazon

Jason Ball - 8 years ago

what species of corydoras?
what is this location in the Amazon?

Random User - 7 years ago

Very good question which I was also wondering. The first thought that came to my mind was corydoras arcuatus but these corydoras don't have the full stripe. There are over 150 species of corydoras known to man (and we still have some trouble classifying those) so I wouldn't be surprised if this was a new species, or maybe it is known but not famous in aquaria.

Steven Pierce - 8 years ago

Reminds me of a helicopter shot looking down on a herd of some large wild mammal running over the grazing planes.

piepeep90 - 8 years ago

SYNCHRONIZATION C O M P L E T E

IAmShadowWolf - 8 years ago

I have two Cory catfish <3

Random User - 7 years ago

6 is a crappy number that started appearing in books on the 1950s and it is totally bogus. While you can't keep them in natural groups of hundreds hobbyists should do the effort to give them the biggest schools they can, even if they have to sacrifice other fish for it.
If you look at my tanks you will see my aquariums have 1-2 schooling species but you will also see that those two schools will be big unlike many tanks which seem to carry a bunch of schools with a lot of them carrying just 6-8.

Will Thornton - 7 years ago

+Austin Salgat True, thats what I meant to type but forgot to.

Austin Salgat - 7 years ago

If your tank is too small too have a sufficient shoal, you shouldn't have them to begin with.

Will Thornton - 8 years ago

Agreed, unless your tank is too small. I wouldn't suggest more than two in anything smaller than a 10 gallon. I have 6 in a 35 gallon and they are happy as can be. 5 females and 1 male, they lay extremely fertile eggs.

Jim Lahey - 8 years ago

you do realize they should be kept in groups of 5+, they are a schooling fish, keeping them in smaller that 5 can cause stress

Banany Prutas - 8 years ago

I SHALL STEAL THEM ALL

Medical Meccanica - 9 years ago

"why do you want to go to south america?"
person: the history, the culture, the rainforest
me: I WANT TO SWIM WITH HUNDREDS OF TINY CATFISH

Water Nebula - 7 years ago

Medical Meccanica me

the amphibian and fish channel - 7 years ago

Medical Meccanica lol XD

Just a Random Dude - 9 years ago

OMG! Maaaan your tank is soooooo overcrowded!

Oh The Mirth - 9 years ago

Nice evidence for corycats needing corycat friends in the tank. Pet shop guy told me corydoras are happy alone. They can certainly survive alone, but I think they will be far less stressed if in a nice group.

Andrew Marlowe - 8 years ago

+Jessica Chen this video makes my measly school of 7 look like nothing

jason smith - 9 years ago

C097

Random User - 7 years ago

jason smith Nice, they look very similar but I don't see spots on the corydoras in this video. On a side note this was recorded in Brazil while C097 was supposedly recorded in Peru, altough I don't think that is enough evidence to discard your comment as there can be many populations far appart from each other.

Ruximenes - 9 years ago

Man... Why people still destroying Amazon? Really, look at this beautiful animals. PS: I know what I'm talking about cause I'm brazilian PS2: If my english is bad, you know why.

Luculencia - 9 years ago

Big businesses are destroying it for money.
Poor people are destroying it to make a living and feed their family.
The people in first world countries are destroying it by not caring and continuing to buy products that have come from or caused destruction of the rainforest.

It's sad but most people don't care at all about the environment - they just want to live their lives in comfort and only think about themselves. It's very hard to get most people to think outside their own lives and consider the impact humanity has on the ecosystem.

I can understand why poorer people living on the bread line wouldn't have time to consider anything but staying alive... but rich people living in comfort in the city should be more considerate that they are able to live so comfortably because the natural world is being exploited somewhere else...

Most people don't think about it, but eating meat everyday (especially beef) is one of the major causes of destruction of forests. Forests are cut down constantly to provide grazing areas for livestock like cows. The beef is then sold to other countries who do not have sufficient agricultural land to feed their own population (e.g. UK). The rivers running through the agricultural land become polluted by animal dung and silt that is stirred up by the passage of herds walking through it and drinking from it. Humans dump their own waste and rubbish into it and soon it becomes uninhabitable for plant, fish and invertebrate life.

The ecosystem would really benefit from a lowered human population too, but try suggesting to people to only have a maximum of 2 children and they freak out and think you're suggesting mass genocide or something....

20. comment for Corydoras in the Amazon

Stenchx - 9 years ago

So beautiful they belong in my tank not in nature

dogglet1234 - 9 years ago

Lol.

PunkSkaful - 10 years ago

OMG!!! THEY ARE SO CUTE!!!

PunkSkaful - 8 years ago

+Andrew Marlowe ahhahaha you;re so funny Mr. Crews

Andrew Marlowe - 8 years ago

+PunkSkaful
corydoras are my muscles

PunkSkaful - 8 years ago

+Andrew Marlowe but you have big muscles..

Andrew Marlowe - 8 years ago

+PunkSkaful ive always had a soft spot for their innocent wall eyed stare

Dominik Vlahović - 10 years ago

you have them alredy in nature.

laskolasko - 10 years ago

Gotta catch'em all. EVER LAST ONE OF THEM!!

TeamOG - 10 years ago

I WANT ALL OF THEM

dogglet1234 - 9 years ago

Yes bro they are beaitiful

Nasso - 10 years ago

It looks so weird when you are used to seeing the species in an aquarium to actually see it in the wild. It looks... fake.. ;)

A Skeptical Human - 10 years ago

One key take-away message from the video: don't keep corydoras alone in fish tanks!

Undead Trooper - 7 years ago

A Skeptical Human I did that once, it died 2 days later,

dogglet1234 - 9 years ago

I'm from singapore..lol check out my vids..would like ur feedback

Sempi - 9 years ago

Florida

dogglet1234 - 9 years ago

Its the cheapest...where are u located

Sempi - 9 years ago

I'm not sure on that one, maybe so!

dogglet1234 - 9 years ago

Albinos are actually bronze cories if im nt wrong

Sempi - 9 years ago

The only ones that still hide under my driftwood are my albinos, but I've had them before this tank and they did the same and I had about 5 of them and I rarely saw them. I'm glad I have more than a couple species, they all school together like they're all war buddies or something.

dogglet1234 - 9 years ago

I understand but they seem to be happier with their own species bro

Sempi - 9 years ago

+dogglet1234 they don't have to be exotic. Any cory cat will school with any cory cat. It's best to keep them in groups of 4+ I have 6 in my tank consisting of: Peppered Cory, Panda Cory, and Albino Cory.

dogglet1234 - 9 years ago

Bro u are so right but some of the exotic cories are so expensive

Tony Ngo - 11 years ago

Current stock is, peppered, sterbai, gold laser, black, david something, albino, bronze and pulcher

Random User - 7 years ago

Tony Ngo Corydoras Paleatus and Sterbai together? lol

KaityMarie - 12 years ago

@xJonnyHazardx wow I wish I could have a big group like that! I only have three but they are my favorite:) They're just sooooo cute and funny and and adorable!

Dillon Neighbors - 12 years ago

AWWWW! <33333

30. comment for Corydoras in the Amazon

Marcello Branca - 12 years ago

wow they are really cute awesome

Chris Wong - 12 years ago

Wonderful Corydoras!

Johnny Hazard - 12 years ago

@kuraisong SO CUTE I have 7 I loves them <3

Pedro Franco - 12 years ago

Fantástico, simplesmente incrível.

XTRAO - 13 years ago

this is so awesome. They're so interesting, you can see them playing in my bubber in one of my videos.

SweetNoodle1 - 13 years ago

oh my god it's so amazing!

kutanoid - 13 years ago

wow

lynnani - 13 years ago

Cute Panda corydoras!

nicofish1000 - 13 years ago

small herd of underwater buffalo's :)

Hetzer Hasser - 13 years ago

They are really cute ! i wish i could spend the day in such waters cause i would never get bored :X !

Guido Gae - 13 years ago

FOR THE HORDE!!!

Gogo ya - 13 years ago

"THIS IS CORY'S"

greenbean477 - 13 years ago

wow! seeing these videos gives me an understanding of my fish and what they would like in my aquarium. thank for the vids

nicofish1000 - 13 years ago

they are like the tiny buffalo of the amazon

Marcello Branca - 14 years ago

hell yeah they aresoooooooooooooooooooo cute truly

Mundzak - 14 years ago

Wow! I have 10 those fish. It' s impossible. :)

鴻景 - 14 years ago

GOOD

stephster575 (SFK Reptiles) - 14 years ago

And that's why these fish like to be in groups in aquariums. =)

juutTelcontar - 14 years ago

No those have another black spot at their back. And yes, it makes you want a huge tank with hundreds of cory's!

Magnus af Frodenqvist - 14 years ago

they belong in a tank!

50. comment for Corydoras in the Amazon

Joel Chong - 15 years ago

No.

Jonathan Challinger - 15 years ago

Its really sad that people don't think hard enough to realize this is a sarcastic comment.

Jiraiya500 - 15 years ago

Cory Cats: WE ATTACK AT DAWN!!!

andreasluu - 15 years ago

Really awesome got 6 corydoras:)

andreasluu - 15 years ago

They are a group fish you should have 6 or more or else they will not be happy.

A. Snatcher - 15 years ago

I'm sorry guys I was being sarcastic ;) I actually have a 120g with a school of 30.

Horror Bull - 15 years ago

do you see them in groups of three?...... my goal as a hobbyist is to re create a fish's natural biotope as closely as possible. not some tank with odd stocking where the fish is able to SURVIVE but not THRIVE!

amonkeybmonkey - 15 years ago

Aww. So many leetal cories! <3

Horror Bull - 15 years ago

you need atleast 6.

A. Snatcher - 15 years ago

So I should buy just one cory for my tank right?

daniel lopez martinez - 15 years ago

Ohhhhh my god is incredible, that nice that is in your live world

honzapm - 15 years ago

omg, that´s beautiful :)

Elliottadventure Productions - 16 years ago

wow! I love cories, its a shame they're so shy all the time.

Hekuboshi - 16 years ago

great, now i'm gonna feel bad for ever having less than a thousand corys in my aquarium. love this video!!!

sumirei001 - 16 years ago

Aw cute! It's really nice to see them in their natural environment. I have a pair of pandas and they are the cutest fishes ever! =D

Alex Smoler - 16 years ago

Can any one tell what kind of corydoras those are?

NickMonsoon - 16 years ago

buncha cories! nice vid ^^

Bradley Brown - 16 years ago

You can definately say they are a schooling fish!! Nice to see them not in a tank!

Ketman - 16 years ago

It's so nice to see corydoras in their environment

RichyReef - 16 years ago

lovely :D I love cory's and right now i have pygmy's, adolphi's, albino+highfin albino and axelrodi :)I'm going to get some Barbatus for the bigger tank , yeaah :D

tsubor - 16 years ago

Wow, sweet!

luutzen - 16 years ago

amazing!!! wow i wish i had a big enough tank to keep so much corydoras!

adrhenfer - 16 years ago

AMAZING

leosoundvideos - 16 years ago

Amazing !

Janó Ámon - 17 years ago

I forgot to write, that i can't find out from the video that how big they are, so i don't know which specie exactly.

Janó Ámon - 17 years ago

I think this specie is Corydoras sychri or Corydoras atropersonatus. The sychri is the bigger one ~6,5 cm, atropersonatus is around 4 cm. But correct me if i'm wrong. I have 4 from the smaller one, in my 120L tank. They are really lovely. I'm plannin to breed them, 'couse the female's belly getting rounder and rounder these days. :) Beautiful video, i really would like to see more like this! :)