Information On All Cory's

[Diane]

Visited my lfs today for some plants, only to find he had 8 different varties of cory's. being a cory fan couldn't help my self from buying some. I ending up walking away with 2 x corydoras axelrodi and 2 x coryodas sp. C121 (beautiful), just to add to my growing collection. Any way after a lengthy conversation about Cory's he showed me a book that he often refers to when buying cory's from the wholesaler (nice to see a lfs doing its research). the book is called Identifying Coryoradinae Catfish, I must say I thought this book was ace so I bought on the spot for £19.00. The photographs are brilliant.
it is well worth buying just so you know what cory's are out there.
I checked the book out on the web to find that I had bought a bargin as this book on Amazon is £28.00.

Just thought I share this with the rest of the cory fan world and if you are ever confused in what cory you have bought, you will have no trouble in finding it in this book.


Diane

 

[Inchworm]

Hi Diane

Yes, Ian Fuller and Hans-Georg Evers' book is an excellent reference work. You got a great bargain too! The pictures are superb!

IMHO, because of the way it's laid out, it's much more useful as a tool to find out basic information about a cory if you already know what it is. The Aqualog books are more helpful as a means of identification though.

 

[Diane]

before I would trailed the internet looking for certain catfish that my lfs has but know I will able to refer to my book. I agree that it only mentions the species and where it came from and the size that it can grow to. it could have gone one better and included breeding etc.
But as far as identifying a species of cory's, it wins for me.

Diane