San O Fisher said:
got it... Just talked to my LFS and they will switch me out for Sterbai next week... I guess i will be running a group of 12 sterbai or so.
Any others that can handle the 82 temp? I would like a mix of fish...
According to research I did a short while back...
Corydoras adolfoi [see below]
Corydoras leucomelas
possibly
Corydoras splendens [see below]
Corydoras sterbai
C. adolfoi is rarely seen in the hobby now. The species often sold under this name is actually
Corydoras duplicareus, which has the same colour pattern but the black dorso-lateral stripe is much thicker and the orange post-orbital fleck is brighter; thus, this species quickly became more popular, and early on importers got the names mixed. The species epithet
duplicareus assigned by the discoverer and describer of this species, Dr. David Sands in 1995, was a reference to duplicating the adolfoi pattern/colour. But having said that, the actual species is probably not so easy as the more intense colour, as more recent works have suggested that this can occur in
C. adolfoi as well, and like so many species of cory, there may be considerable variation within the species. But there is one absolute external difference: the pectoral spine (first ray of the pectoral fin) on
C. adolfoi is smooth, but on
C. duplicareus it is very slightly serrated; you need to examine this spine under a microscope to differentiate. A near-identical species,
C. serratus, has an even more serated pectoral fin spine, hence the name
serratus, but this species has an elongated nose. There is also
C. imitator, named because it imitates the pattern of
C. adolfoi, and it too has a longer nose.
Now that you are probably well and truly confused...I'll mention that
Corydoras splendens was known as
Brochis splendens until fairly recently. Phylogenetic analysis of the species indicated that it is genetically very closely related to certain species in
Corydoras, and this handful of species descended from the same common ancestor, different from all other corys, so the three
Brochis species were taxonomically moved into the
Corydoras genus for the present. They and the closely-related "cory" species will be in their own distinct genus one day, which will almost certainly be named
Brochis as this is the oldest genus name applied to a species within this grouping and thus must take precedence. Anyway, you may see it as
Brochis or
Corydoras; it is slightly larger and chunkier than most corys, but peaceful.
Byron.
