ClownLurch
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I’ve been tempted by Anchor Catfish myself for ages now. Real characters apparently.
New fish! Whoops, impulse buy...!
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For sure, they're pretty fish! And some species have incredible fins. There's so much variety in these psuedomugli's and dwarf rainbows, there really is. Check out psuedomugli gertrudae!
And threadfin rainbows (they're not always so red though)
Or forktails! There were forktails in the store too, I remember now
And so many more! Lovely little fish, so good for smaller planted tanks
Love all of those! Never heard of the gertrudae variety though!
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The person I'm trading fish with just let me know that apparently luminatus and red neons are the same species! I didn't think to look for a Latin name for the red neons, I got confused since I'd called the store previously to see if they'd take my bronze cory babies and aske then if they had luminatus in stock, and he said "no, but we have red neons" so I just assumed they were different. This is why using Latin names is so important, lol.
Yah. I saw you refer to them as separate species and I was a bit confused
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Oh don't worry, I'll be spamming plenty of photos I'm sure! Thank you, I got so excited when I saw them and couldn't resistBeautiful! We will need lots more pictures as they grow up!
The ones I saw in the store were pretty small, they were just so different looking, I wanted to learn more about them! They look like a really interesting species to keep, especially for a biotope set up
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Hmm, you already knew that? Hmm, I'll believe you... lolYah. I saw you refer to them as separate species and I was a bit confused
Yes I actually did
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Haha, fair enough! You should have corrected me thenYes I actually did
Update on fish - all three Venezuelan babies came to the front and went to town when I fed the tank, so they're settling in already, yay!
I should've but I didn't want to come across as a know it all teenHaha, fair enough! You should have corrected me then
Update on fish - all three Venezuelan babies came to the front and went to town when I fed the tank, so they're settling in already, yay!
That's great to hear!!! I'm sure they love their new home! And they have a really good fish parent as well!
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LOL! You wouldn't have, I promise. You'd have been right, and I don't mind being told, at all! I want to learnI should've but I didn't want to come across as a know it all teen
Aaaww, that's so sweet, thank you
That's great to hear!!! I'm sure they love their new home! And they have a really good fish parent as well!
I'm sure the presence of the other cories helps a lot.I feel a bit guilty for getting them now, when I'm getting a larger tank at the weekend and will have to put them through the upheaval of a transfer, so soon after getting them. But I don't get out to that side of Bristol often and it's expensive for me to go, so it was get them today, or not at all. Will try to minimise stress for all the fish through it all, of course.
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Congrats on your new arrivals.No worries! And it's very possibly true, like albinos tend to turn more creamy coloured and less bright white as they mature, and plecos change colour a lot as they grow.
Thank you! That one was a stock photo, but mine are below! I can see what you mean, it makes sense, but I like having my cory gang all together, you know? They're happier in big groups. I'm not desperate to breed them either, I've only ever bred them accidentally when they've just happened to spawn so I've saved the eggs and raised the fry then. So I'll have them live together and if they happen to breed together, it won't matter too much since they're the same species, and I suppose it would mean some fry would be black, some normal, perhaps some albinos since I have two albinos too. If I decide I want to spawn just the black ones, I'll move just the black ones to a spawning tank to make sure they only produce venezuelans
Here's my cories, only two were willing to pose though;
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@DoubleDutch and @Naughts Look at my adorable new babies!! I LOVE THEM
The name Venezuelans is a worldwide incorrect name. In fact they have not any link with the country but are a manmade colorvariaty of C.schultzei which is closely related to C.aeneus and called C.schultzei "black". They'll crossbreed.
Their dark color depends of the ancestry.
These are quite black but there are some more "brownish" ones also.
Beautiful.corys
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Oh wow, thank you for the congrats, and for the info!! I'd read that they were just a colour mutation of C.aeneus, and I even asked the guy at the store today who said they were! I didn't know they were C.schultzei! Dang, so if they'll interbreed with aeneus, I really shouldn't keep them together, huh?
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As long as there aren't eggs or you don't allow them to hatch there is nothing wrong.
There is some discussion if the C.schultzei is a specific species or also a type of Aeneus. So in that perspective the LFS-guy is (also) correct.
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