My Experience With Petsmart

[Naughts]

The UK equivalent is Pets at Home, and while I would rather buy fish from the local fish shop, it's achingly convenient because the nearest branch is closer to my flat than any LFS and it's open until 8pm, which means you can go after work. If you did an internet search, you'd find a lot of threads about them, most warning you off.

I bought our first lot of cherry barbs from them and lost one, but I attribute that to doing a fish-in cycle without the faintest idea of what we were doing. The other barbs have proven themselves to be resilient little things because they didn't die in spite of our bumbling efforts at setting up a tank. More recently, I bought black corys from them because they were the only place less than half an hour away that had them. We spent a while staring at all their tanks and concluding that the fish looked good. One of the corys died after about a week, but its friends remain healthy (knock on wood) so I'm prepared to consider it bad luck or a netting injury, as the guy in the store wasn't great at catching fish and knocked them about a bit. But if any more have problems, I'll replace them from somewhere else.

are they Venezuelan black cories? They look stunning but I can't find them on SeriouslyFish. Do you know much about them?

 

[Gypsum]

Aye, they could be Venezuelan black corys or a tank bred-strain of C. Aeneus (bronze cory) which are called C. Schulzei. Digging around the internet for clear information on whether they are a colour morph of C. Aeneus or a different species entirely clarifies nothing. No one seems to know what they are. But I like them.

 

[Naughts]

Aye, they could be Venezuelan black corys or a tank bred-strain of C. Aeneus (bronze cory) which are called C. Schulzei. Digging around the internet for clear information on whether they are a colour morph of C. Aeneus or a different species entirely clarifies nothing. No one seems to know what they are. But I like them.

Yes! They look like the ones I'm seeing in UK shops. I may get a little school in a month or two. seriouslyfish just shows Peru black cories which are different. I'll look at the Schulzei, thank you. Let me know if you find out Any more about them, thanks.

 

[Gypsum]

Maybe someone else on the forum knows more about them. Perhaps worth posting a new thread? I spent a long time on Google finding out very little, other than that they are likely to be related to the aquarium-bred line of something that may or may not be C. Aeneus, bred by a German guy in the 90s.

 

[Naughts]

Yes, that's what I just found under Shulzei. Also that they have acquired the name Venezuelan black cories but true Venezuelans have not found their way into the aquarium trade.