G'Day all
As a new memeber I thought I would firstly introduce myself before asking the questions I have about Cory's.
I live in Australia and currently have one 5ft tank set up solely for Cory's. In the tank the heavy weights are the 5 large female peppered catfish along with 3 (one male) long finned or high finned peppered catfish, about 6 strebai catfish (keep finding more babies that have been missed in the egg harvests, 3 emerald and 3 pygmy catfish. The tank also gets used as a grow out tank for baby bristlenosed catfish and all the catfish seem to be getting along fine with plenty of weed and hidey holes from rocks and timber.
Since all the catfish are together and the only crosses I have seen is the longfins with the normal peppereds (as can be expected) I have now come across a baby Cory that has me stumped. It is white with black eyes (so not albino) and has a black smudge behind its dorsal fin and a little bit of black just starting to appear on the edge of its tail. Since the markings are not clear I am less inclined to think it is a young strebai, but if it is a peppered I was wondering if anyone else has had a similar mutation crop up. In the tank there are currently with the little white guy some longfin babies that are smaller and some strebai babies that are close in size. I am wondering if somewhere along the line a peppered could have crossed with an albino and I got the seemingly noraml offspring that has now thrown a fluke.The little white guy isn't scared to get in the thick of it with the full grown peppereds nor does it shy away from any of the other cory's. Any suggestions or ideas would be apprecaited
thanks.
As a new memeber I thought I would firstly introduce myself before asking the questions I have about Cory's.
I live in Australia and currently have one 5ft tank set up solely for Cory's. In the tank the heavy weights are the 5 large female peppered catfish along with 3 (one male) long finned or high finned peppered catfish, about 6 strebai catfish (keep finding more babies that have been missed in the egg harvests, 3 emerald and 3 pygmy catfish. The tank also gets used as a grow out tank for baby bristlenosed catfish and all the catfish seem to be getting along fine with plenty of weed and hidey holes from rocks and timber.
Since all the catfish are together and the only crosses I have seen is the longfins with the normal peppereds (as can be expected) I have now come across a baby Cory that has me stumped. It is white with black eyes (so not albino) and has a black smudge behind its dorsal fin and a little bit of black just starting to appear on the edge of its tail. Since the markings are not clear I am less inclined to think it is a young strebai, but if it is a peppered I was wondering if anyone else has had a similar mutation crop up. In the tank there are currently with the little white guy some longfin babies that are smaller and some strebai babies that are close in size. I am wondering if somewhere along the line a peppered could have crossed with an albino and I got the seemingly noraml offspring that has now thrown a fluke.The little white guy isn't scared to get in the thick of it with the full grown peppereds nor does it shy away from any of the other cory's. Any suggestions or ideas would be apprecaited
thanks.
