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I saw these at work today, and I knew soon as I saw them that I had to get them. There are six of them, and each looks a bit different.

The best part is that I don't know what species they are.

I created a thread on PC about them, and hopefully Ian Fuller will be able to identify them.







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Last edited by Cory Addict at 26-Sep-2004 02:25[/font]

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Great Corys. Do you think they might be C.Pestai ?

That's one of the species I considered as a possibility. They came in as C. bilineatus, which I don't think they are.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Very cool Corys, May I ask what the white thing in the gravel is next to the Cory in the last picture?

The C. bilineatu doesn't seem to have spots in their dorsal fins, like your photo cory have.

Last edited by TigerAngel at 26-Sep-2004 04:34

Perky: It's a rubberband around a rock (I use it when feeding tubifex worms). Looks kind of weird...

TigerAngel: C. bilineatus is actually a quite variable species when it comes to the spotted fins. My specimen (the fish in my avatar) actually has a large black splotch on its dorsal fin, while Ian Fuller's C. bilineatus have plain, unmarked dorsal fins. I have also seen pictures of the species that have speckled dorsal fins, like the corys I just got.

The Elegans group of corys tend to be a pain to identify, as there is sexual dimorphism (most other corys don't have this) and many local varieties of each species.:%)

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Yeah I was only going by the Planet Catfish site. Trying to identify Corys is hard. Relying on LFS is also hard. I brought 4 Spotted Tail Corys (Corydoras caudimaculatus) and when they got a bit bigger I noticed 2 are actually Cory Similis. I was annoyed because one died and the Similis don't really hang around with the Spotted Tail. But lucky I have some Emerald Corys which the Spotted Tail likes to shoal with. (sometimes)
The Spotted Tail is more active than the Similis. I now am in the hunt for some more Spotted Tails, but as yet haven't seen any.

RE Rubberbands holding down food. I used to do this, but my hubby warned me: if the rubberband broke it could cut a fish in half. I have a BN that likes pumpkin, and I tie it down with a rubberband on a rock. He likes to lie across it when he is eating it. Well my hubby said: hope he doesn't break the rubberband as it could cut him in half when it breaks. So now I don't do it. I pin it down now with a fork.

they look like the bilineatus I have too

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According to Ian, they are C41. Weird, because they don't look like the C41 I have already.

They do look similar to C. bilineatus, but in my corys the markings are in general a lot thicker, and there isn't as much reticulation on the head.

Here is a link to the PC thread.

[link=http://www.forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?t=8298]http://www.forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?t=8298" style="COLOR: #FFFFFF[/link]

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

And thanks for the heads up, TigerAngel.

I will be more cautious when using rubberbands, as sometimes I make them really tight around the rock.

Luckly the tubifex one is pretty loose, even when I put the worms on it.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.