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[mikev]

Don't have a camera, but possibly a description would be sufficient in this case.

There was a group of cories I saw at the store yesterday. Very similar to metae (I keep metae) but something was a bit different, and perhaps you can help me figure out what they were (the tank had no label at all). Differences from my C.metae:
1. Lighter fish, yellow tone.
2. The back stripe was a bit different... higher in the body.
3. Gill plate spot was more visible.
4. Likely unimportant -- the fish was smaller, about 1.25" -- but I think these were not full grown, I could not sex any of them.
Not C.melini either, and certainly closer to C.Metae than to C.melini.

Any guesses?

 

[Carlovel1]

Did they look like this?

 

[JenCliBee]

The most likely candidate is C. davidsandsi if they are like metae.

 

[mikev]

Thanks! C. davidsandsi seems very likely...the photos match my recollection. Any idea how to decisively tell if they are? (I have a lot of Metae and can breed more... so I'd rather not get any more, but the other species seems interesting.)

 

[JenCliBee]

Thanks! C. davidsandsi seems very likely...the photos match my recollection. Any idea how to decisively tell if they are? (I have a lot of Metae and can breed more... so I'd rather not get any more, but the other species seems interesting.)

Ian fuller gives a good ID on differences.... i think this is the link HERE!!

The main differences on the two that i usually take from is pretty much what youve mentioned yourself, more of a yellowish hew and if i remember correctly the black stripe through the fish extends all the way threw the tail on davidsandsi's unlike metae where it finishes at the end of the body before you get to the tail.

 

[mikev]

Thank you FishyJake,

The photo on the Scotcat's page is dead on... exactly this black line, more straight than in C.Metae.

(You keep C. davidsandsi yourself if I may ask? Is breeding difficult?)

 

[JenCliBee]

Thank you FishyJake,

The photo on the Scotcat's page is dead on... exactly this black line, more straight than in C.Metae.

(You keep C. davidsandsi yourself if I may ask? Is breeding difficult?)

Glad the link was of some assistance .

Ive kept and bred them in the past, pretty much the same as most cory species to breed, not the easiest in the world but far from anything extreme needed.

The fry were much more of a challenge to rear but once the initial combat of keeping they alive is over it became quite easy from there on. I found them along the lines of sterbai to breed and rear.