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Actually, my store DOES have julii cories. I check, double checked, triple checked, and so did some others, they ARE in fact juliis.

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In that post I said none, but in a lot others I said no American exporters.

Either way, you won't find them here. If there are two expoters in their range, like Ian said, and one is a British one and one is a German one, that still means thay you won't find the fish in North America unless someone has specifically gone and collected it.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

I thought you specifically said there were NO importers in the cories home range save that one company from Germany. Apparently, that's not the case.

[span class="edited"][Edited by Klee 2004-09-08 21:59][/span]

He never said if they were distributed in America however, only in the UK. I said it in a few of my posts, that there are no major American distributors.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Actually, they do.

"There are only one or two exporters from SE Brazil that actually collect the true fish. There are C. julii coming into the UK but but not many, you need to know which exporter your LFS deals with."

Straight from Ian himself.

The real question is, what would make them want to go after C. julli specifically?

C. trilineatus, a species that can look nearly exactly the same, is much more common and lives where the commercial fisheries are. They have no reason to export C. julii, so they don't.

[span class="edited"][Edited by Cory Addict 2004-09-08 17:10][/span]

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Okay, an email was sent. Anyways, if this is case and there truly aren't any exports of the little fellas (I swear that there is one in peru, but w/e), what's stopping other companies from exporting julis?

you don't know who ian fuller is?
hes only the best cory IDer in the world and heres his website http://www.corycats.com/
and i'll let cory addict tell you the rest....

cfd

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Who the heck is Ian Fuller?

Talk to Ian Fuller. There are no commercial exporters of C. julii.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Everyone says they aren't here..
but aren't these Juliis?
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?siteid=21&pCatId=1176&TopCatId=1161

That's not true. Apparently, both Peru and Brazil do catch and ship Julis, and have been doing so for a long time. In fact, Julis were among the first cories ever to be imported to America, back around the middle of the last century. When you think about it, really, if doesn't make sense if only ONE company exported and shipped julis, as they don't have any regulations on catching them (though actually exporting them is a different story). Therefore, there's nothing stopping other suppliers from catching juli cories of their own.

[span class="edited"][Edited by Klee 2004-09-07 22:14][/span]

I have said it before, and I will say it again. All of the corys in the stores you see labled as C. julii are really C. trilineatus. Both species can have spots, and both can have reticulation, so the classical saying of "they only have spots so they they are C. julii" is untrue.

There are no commercial importers anywhere in C. julii's range in South America, so you are not going to see any in the store. The only way you'd be able to get them is if you or someone you know went on a special journey deep into the Amazon to collect them. There is one German company (based in Frankfurt) that makes special yearly expeditions in the Amazon to collect the species, but they only collect about 1000 individuals which are distributed only in Germany.

My LFS gets the spotted variety of C. trilineatus all the time, and the reticulated ones are actually more rare.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

I actually bought Trils thinking they were Julliis but of course they were not. About a month later, I saw another "julli Cories" tank and I instantly recognized a difference. They had spots/dots and were a bit smaller. Too bad they didn't have real Julliis when I bought mine.

I definitely agree with the above, sometimes it's hard to match your cory to a picture. Corydoras julii are very, very hard to find in the U.S., most pet stores 'have' them, but they're mislabled.

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Trilineatus, a lovely cory that's extremely common in the US (most stores have them) are usually or always marked as Juliis. That doesn't make them true juliis, which, as has been said, just aren't sold in the US.
I'll freely allow that the picture on LiveAquaria looks like a Julii, although of course IDing from a picture isn't foolproof at all - but, of course, they aren't necessarily selling Juliis just because the picture looks right.

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we have them here in new york they are great!

I think a LFS here in Boston has a tank of julliis

Wait, are you saying that they are hard to find in the US?

Thats odd because I have seen them quite often in my area, ALSO my store stocks them, AND I have them. Actually, I can't decide my favorite cory between julii, aldolfoi, and panda. I love them all.

They exist, they are just very hard to find. Click here if you're lazy.

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