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my LFS just got in a shipment of these neat long nosed corys they have listed as Fowleri Corys. I checked Planet Catfish- and the corys they have pics of dont quite look the same. The ones I saw had the same long snout, but kind of a silvery body with silvery-grey mottling, no big patches or substantial markings just mottling.
They are $20 each Canadian - too much? They are listed as "Very Rare" in the store.


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Here are some possibilities as to what they may be...

[link=Corydoras acutus]http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/callicht/corydora/38_f.php" style="COLOR: #FFFFFF[/link]

[link=Corydoras geoffroy]http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/callicht/corydora/1465_f.php" style="COLOR: #FFFFFF[/link]

[link=Corydoras sarareensis]http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/callicht/corydora/1238_f.php" style="COLOR: #FFFFFF[/link]

[link=Corydoras semiaquilus]http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/callicht/corydora/494_f.php" style="COLOR: #FFFFFF[/link]

[link=Corydoras sp.]http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/callicht/corydora/1043_1.php" style="COLOR: #FFFFFF[/link]

[link=Corydoras sp. "C127"]http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/callicht/corydora/1311_f.php" style="COLOR: #FFFFFF[/link]


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Cory Addict - Sarareensis? Thats the closest one, but these ones had very very long snouts in comparison to that.


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Elongate snout? Hmm. Try:

Corydoras cervinus

Corydoras cervinus

Corydoras ephippifer

Corydoras blochi

Other than that, Cory_Addict has covered the principal long-snouted species. It's worth having a ferret around though: this site is probably your easiest for quick browsing of Corydoras, as it takes a bit less time to load than PlanetCatfish.

If you can post some pics, we'll have a MUCH better chance ot trying to identify them for you

EDIT: just thought. Do your Corys have a distinctively 'horse-faced' look to them like semiaquilus or cervinus? Or is the snout more like a guapore in shape??


Last edited by Calilasseia at 16-Apr-2005 08:50

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Very "horse like" snout.
Perhaps they are a color morph of the Sarareensis, or something very closely related. But they had a very long snout. Literally they looked like someone grabbed a pepper cory by the tail and stretched it out from the snout backwards. The colorings are very very similar to a pepper cory but a long gracile fish with a very long horse shaped snout, but definetly not the fowleri corys they are listed as.


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Hmm. Check out Corydoras ourastigma and Corydoras pastazensis. The latter has a very elongate snout, but as well as having spots, possesses a saddle mark below the dorsal fin, though this is somewhat indistinct in many individuals, and is nowhere near as intense as the black saddle on some Corydoras burgessi, for example (which is also a round snouted species that won't match yours). With you saying that the snout is that stretched, I'm beginning to think pastazensis, with possibly ourastigma as another candidate. Trouble with the likes of semiaquilus is that some individuals (at least in my copy of the Kobayagawa book) have a body marking on the side like that of a Bronze Cory, but on a greyish background. cervinus is spotted and long snouted without the saddle mark, but the snout isn't as  ounced in elongation as pastazensis.


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Could it be [link=Scleromystax macropterus]http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/callicht/scleromy/164_f.php" style="COLOR: #FFFFFF[/link] or [link=Scleromystax lacerdai]http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/callicht/scleromy/70_f.php" style="COLOR: #FFFFFF[/link]?

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While doing a random google for Corydoras sp. on images, I found a pic of one! It doesnt say what species it is. This is I think what is in the LFS.
Here it is:


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That looks to me a lot like an amapensis ...

If you can, try and count the barbels. If the fish has a third pair of rictal barbels (nost Corys only have 2 pairs), then you could indeed have amapensis. Only Planet Catfish says that this is a trait to look for.

Oh, and the colour scheme varies a LOT in this species. Don't be surprised to find pics of amapensis that differ considerably from yours.

Last edited by Calilasseia at 17-Apr-2005 21:28

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oooh, corys having 3 pairs of barbels? that's interesting...never heard of that before...

According to my Lambourne notes, there are only 3 Corydoras species with 3 pairs of rictal barbels. These are amapensis, octocirrhus and septentrionalis. All the others have 2 pairs of rictal barbels. However, my database may need updating here as my list of Corydoras species from the Lambourne book doesn't include C-numbers or any species that were described after 1999.


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I can vouch for the three pair of barbels on C. septentrionalis. Mine certainly have them, but they are very short, just as they are with the other species.
I read about the three above fish and their extra barbels on ScotCat.com, a very well run website. It is probably up-to-date information.

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Now my question is, is it worth $20 a peice,
(16.27 USD, 8.55 pounds sterling,21.18 Aust Dollars, 22.72 NZ Dollars)
for these type of Corys, or is that a little steep?
How rare are they?


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That isn't a terrible price, considering that they are tough to find. They're barely more expensive than 1.5 inch C. sterbai, even though the sterbai can be located in stores or online readily enough.

The real question is, are they worth it to you? Would you be willing to pay the price for each fish in a shoal? Some people certainly would, while others would just go with less expensive fish. It's your call.

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