A Picture Of One Of My Cory Sterbai's

[greenmumma141]

My LFS had a tank of fully mature sterbais and they were little beasts!! I couldn't believe how big they were! 

 
beasts - used affectionately, of course.  

 
Oh yes. Nothing better than fully grown fat cories IMO. well, teeny tiny baby cories are great too. But it's not that often that you see full grown ones, which is sad.

 

[And76reW]

Get your post count up and enter that into the fish of the month competition...

I think I will enter it for June fotm eagles.
When you said 'get my post count up'.. Do you need so many posts to enter this monthly competition?

Very nice fish, and great photo! I wish I could get sterbais near here.

Must be able to get them somewhere spouse !
Quite easy to get hold of here in the UK.
Mine cost me £4.99 each.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

60 posts is the minimum...

 

[snazy]

Sterbai are lovely corys and very sociable too, mine don't hide at all despite me having just 3 of them but they live with 20 other corys.
 
The way they spawn is really fascinating compared to my albinos and gold lasers for example, because the female carries 1-2 eggs only and really takes her time choosing a spot to lay them, unlike the bronze corys who just splash a dozen of them almost straight after being fertlilized. Yesterday my female was swimming around for like 5 min each time before she decided to lay the eggs on the floating plants, I was losing patience with her
 
Good luck with the corys. As for food, the tetra prima and bloodworms are fine. If you want to try more interesting food, have a look at New Era and New Life Spectrum as well.

 

[This Old Spouse]

Very nice fish, and great photo! I wish I could get sterbais near here.

Must be able to get them somewhere spouse !
Quite easy to get hold of here in the UK.
Mine cost me £4.99 each.

I've been to about 5 or 6 different LFSs over the years, and I can honestly say I've never seen one! My husband was lucky enough 2 weeks ago to score 6 honest Julii cory, and they're wonderful. They love it in his 75g! We had hoped there were more, but at least there were 6.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

REAL jullis?!  They are so rare in the hobby, but lovely.

 

[This Old Spouse]

Yes, REAL ONES!! I couldn't believe it either! I thought for sure they were really trillis, but when we got them home and I stared at them for about half an hour, I realized they were true! So cool!

 

[And76reW]

Very nice fish, and great photo! I wish I could get sterbais near here.

Must be able to get them somewhere spouse !
Quite easy to get hold of here in the UK.
Mine cost me £4.99 each.

I've been to about 5 or 6 different LFSs over the years, and I can honestly say I've never seen one! My husband was lucky enough 2 weeks ago to score 6 honest Julii cory, and they're wonderful. They love it in his 75g! We had hoped there were more, but at least there were 6.

Love the Julii's.. Gorgeous.

My missus wants a sucking loach as she said they are more active than the corys?? Haha.
No way am I putting one in.. More Sterbai's, that's what's going in !!! Or Julii's if I can find the real deal.

 

[Noahsfish]

I've never seen julis, at the lfs I go to they always have pandas, agasizzi (spelling?) and emerald. Sometimes sterbai, but where I am they're 15 USD a piece, not sure how many euros that is. As for food I've always f'ed them brine shrimp, blood worms, and hikari wafers. Only problem when I would feed them the wafers a while back my other fish would go crazy for it ignoring their food, so I now only keep them with tetras after one of them got bit. D say my corys are maybe 3" or a little bit less. I actually got them when they were already two years old and that was over a year now.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

Interesting tidbit from planetcatfish's julli cory page:
 
http/www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=378
 

Telling them apart without locality information is actually quite hard as some C. trilineatus can show the spotted head pattern traditionally associated solely with C. julii, C. julii appears also to have a shorter horizontal mid body stripe not reaching half way along the body.

 
 
 
So, maybe they aren't true julli's!