Guessing Game

[Kuhni]

I went to the LFS to purchase a gravel vac and a couple smallish plants. I looked in the corys section and saw the usual trilineatus, peppered, albino bronze, bronze and a couple sterbai. I then checked a tank which had bristlenoses and upside down catfish and to my surprise a large cory easily 2 inches was there. It wasn't labelled and if not for my tank still cycling I would of asked.It was similar to a julii except the dots were a bit faded and markings were less distinct.

can someone try help me guess what it was?

 

[Kuhni]

The Spots were a dark grey with maybe a slight hint of navy.

 

[Xebadir]

Sounds like a pepper corydoras particularly from the Spots with the hint of navy, as well as the large size(peppers are one of the larger cories).

 

[Fishkeeper2004]

Not sure about the navy comment, but C.Trilineatus are often mistake for Jullis, is it possible it was a trilineatus? The difference between the two is that the Jullis have much fainter patterns, and they are more of dots than lines.

 

[Kuhni]

Nah, It wasn't a trilineatus. I have one in my aquarium (it's friends died) I looked like a proper Julii with spots with alot of space in between. Not a Peppered Catfish they sell those there and it certainly wasn't one. I'll try look thru an index of corydoras or sumthin

 

[geo7x]

corydoras reticulatus? http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/image.php?image_id=4925 thats the first thing that came to my mind.
HTH

 

[Kuhni]

Look a bit like this.

 

[geo7x]

does it look like the one in my post?

 

[Kuhni]

nah it didn't really have any metallic colours on it. Corydoras Araguaiaensis is the one in my photo.

 

[Barracuda518]

Maybe Corydoras similis?

http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/image.php?image_id=943

 

[Kuhni]

Similar to this but the spots being larger. and the spots and stripe being more of a dark greyish navyish tone rather than brown.

 

[Kuhni]

I managed to take a photo not the best quality but a photo is a photo

 

[KathyM]

Here's a good link for cory IDs:

http/www.nettaigyo.com/corydoras/encyc/index-e.html

 

[Barracuda518]

Thats not the greatest picture in the world, but it could be one of these:

Corydoras leucomelas

http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/speci...?species_id=485

Corydoras melanistius

http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/speci...?species_id=311

 

[Kuhni]

Corydoras Leucomelas-
General Remarks C. leucomelas is known amongst collectors in the Amazon as ''Maldito'' (the little damned Cory) because it is so common that it brings a very low price. As of 2003, collectors in Leticia, Colombia received U.S $7.00 for every 1,000 C. leucomelas they sold to Bogota exporters. It is still collected, however, as many thousand can be captured in a few hours since it is always found in very large schools.




Geez. I wanna go there.