Good Site To Try To Id A Cory?

[mikev]

I've seen some unusually marked cories at a lfs today and would like to try to id them; where would fine a good collection of photos to look through?

Or, perhaps someone would have an idea from a verbal description: this seems to be a smaller species (all fish was a bit over 1"), with the pattern formed by irregular patches of gray of different intensity (light gray, medium gray, dark gray). Somewhat reminiscent of C.Undulatus as far as "unstructured pattern", but clearly not it.

(I'm not really into cories -- keep only one species of them -- but I do pay attention and this seemed to be something new. LFS guys confirmed that they never saw it before either. Arrived/Labelled as C.Schwartz (sic), which it is not.)

TIA

 

[5teady_2012]

Any chance of you adding some pics so people can have a better idea of what they are dealing with m8?

Maybe take a couple at your lfs or summat

 

[mikev]

Any chance of you adding some pics so people can have a better idea of what they are dealing with m8?

Maybe take a couple at your lfs or summat

I would if I cannot id it otherwise...for now I'd appreciate a link to a good cory photo collection.

 

[Kuhni]

try www.planetcatfish.com and go to their catelog, family Callichthyidae, genus Corydoradinae.
or go to http/www.nettaigyo.com/corydoras/encyc/index-e.html

the Cat-e-log would be the easiest

 

[jollysue]

Corydoras catelog at planetcatfish

 

[mikev]

Thank you very much, the Encyclopedia site is exactly what was needed. Looks very much like Corydoras aurofrenatus...I'll take photos and reconfirm.

 

[Barracuda518]

Almost sounds like C. ehrhardti. But, if you say it looks like C. aurofrenatus, then Im way off.

 

[ulster exile]

I like the thumbnail overview from corydorasworld. You can't see detailed information unless you're a member, but for an idea of the appearance of the cory I think it's excellant.

 

[mikev]

Not C. ehrhardti., but there are a couple of other candidates in the CorydorasWorld thumbnails (the easiest index indeed, thanks). I'll need to go back to get pics to make sure.

(Very tempting guys...one cory species is really all I have place for,...but if they are indeed small...)

 

[Barracuda518]

Not C. ehrhardti., but there are a couple of other candidates in the CorydorasWorld thumbnails (the easiest index indeed, thanks). I'll need to go back to get pics to make sure.

(Very tempting guys...one cory species is really all I have place for,...but if they are indeed small...)

Yes, please get some pictures. You say small, did you look at all the smaller cories, like Corydoras habrosus, pygmaeus, and hastatus? Of those, I know Corydoras habrosus has spots. If you scroll over the names of the cories on this site:

<a href="http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/family.php?family_id=1" target="_blank">http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/family.php?family_id=1</a>

it will show you a picture...Great site.

EDIT: If you do get some of these, do you plan on keeping them with loaches?

EDIT Again: Does it have the same body shape as Corydoras undulatus? If so, that will narrow it down a lot.

 

[mikev]

I'll try to get there tomorrow, if not, it will the next week (I'm sufficiently intrigued...most cories leave me indifferent but these were cute).

Plans are not certain yet and depend on what these cories are. One option is the new 55g tank, which is primarily for Kuhli-like loaches (V.Maassi, L.Thermalis...)... the ground rules is that all the fish besides the kuhlis is small, <1.5"...but I need to know the temp requirements of this species.

This is the tank they may go to:

The problem that I got some cories already (quarantining them now) and keeping two species was not part of the plan. C.Panda's happened to be in the same tank as the loaches that I wanted at a store, so I grabbed a few...right kind of species and I can quarantine them together too:

(no, they are not so suppressed, loaches totally ignore them, but this shot does look like a loach dictatorship)

 

[Barracuda518]

Its not the smaller, more peaceful loaches that bother me, its the Botias. I dont think the kuhlis would bother them at all.

This really applies to C. panda. They seem to do best in big groups in a tank thats not overly crowded. They can get scared very easily and are one of the more shy cories. Do you know if the ones you got are wild caught? They look very healthy.

 

[mikev]

No plans to keep them with Botia's. Either Kuhli's or Hillstreams, C.Panda seems to be Hillstream-compatible and strangely at least Cheni's don't see C.Panda as a competing species to harass.

Either wild-caught or bred outside of the US, the lfs does not buy from local suppliers.
Yep, they seem to be in good shape:

(The other species seems to be ok too but in all cases I'll wait a week -- I've seen lots of good-looking shipments suddenly die out.)

There are eight of them: I got four with the Cheni's, the shoal did not feel right, so I got four more in another qtank....will reunite them in a few days since nobody seems to be dying. Hopefully, this will make a sufficient shoal...but there is no way I can have another eight, even if the 2nd species turns out to be as small as C.Panda.

 

[mikev]

OK, here are the patchy fellows:





Quite clearly not C.autofrenatus, don't know what I was thinking yesterday. Most similar seem to be C. longipinnis and C.paleatus

Unfortunately, the country they came from is not known either...

 

[Barracuda518]

I think they are Corydoras paleatus, which is one of most common Corydoras seen in stores...

I dont think they are Corydoras longipinnis because they lack the high dorsal fin.