My New Cories!

[DoubleDutch]

Hey, nice fish. It's only not a Melini, it's a corydoras metae (Bandit). Compare the black stripes on google.

 

[Ny82]

On planet catfish, the melini is called the false bandit.
 
http/www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=118
 
the metae is the bandit
 
http/www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=24
 
Very difficult to tell apart. 
 
Since the line doesn't come down the back at an angle, I now see that they are in fact metae and not melini which they were sold as! Very difficult to spot though!

 

[frapadoodle]

Sorry about the losses, could just be stress. Between shipping and the heat.

 

[Ny82]

It's ok, happens I suppose
I wont be getting the duplicareus, my friends deciding to keep them but instead I am getting 6 schultzei instead

 

[Lillefishy]

Sorry you lost them, as has been said the combination of the moving stress & the heat could've been the cause.
Shame you're not getting duplcareus, they're lovely I have some,

 

[Ny82]

Sorry you lost them, as has been said the combination of the moving stress & the heat could've been the cause.
Shame you're not getting duplcareus, they're lovely I have some,

 
The guy I got the melini/metae from is holding an auction he owns a fish shop and he does this regularly  I am hoping he has some come up, because they are gorgeous.

 

[Lillefishy]

Whereabouts are you? as I picked up some more duplicareus today & they have plenty left

 

[Ny82]

Whereabouts are you? as I picked up some more duplicareus today & they have plenty left

 
I am in Scotland 

 

[Lillefishy]

Oh, that's a bit too far away, hope the guy you know can get some for you

 

[Ny82]

Oh, that's a bit too far away, hope the guy you know can get some for you

 
Yeah I am always too far away lol. 
Forgot to say the action ended a couple of hours ago, that's where I won the schultzei. Happy I got 6 as well

 

[frapadoodle]

Throw some of that luck my way.

 

[Ny82]

Throw some of that luck my way.

 
I seem to have nothing but bad luck these days, I am grateful to have good luck at all! It really put me off my new cories dying, I thought that maybe that was a lesson to be learned that the more rare ones are harder to keep alive. I am paranoid that the elegans are going to die too. My landlady has picked them up for me, they are in her tank being quarantined then I will get them sunday-we aren't taking any chances. They are beautiful, the males with the spots and lovely pattern and the females with the gold and the green.
I would be gutted if they died too

 

[Ny82]

So...here are my elegans! They are still juveniles so have some growing to do! I am in love they are adorable and very active!
There's quite a bit of variation within the elegans on planet catfish, when they grow up a bit then maybe I will be able to tell male from female. 

 

 
 

 

[Ny82]

 

 

[frapadoodle]

Will comment later after I clean the drool off the screen.