Pics Of New Fish

[jollysue]

If we look this way they can't see us

C. andreas aka cf. stenocephalus
This is a newly discover species.

C. pastazensis

an unknown interloper who stowed away with the C. pastazensis

C. loretoensis

loretoensis and andreas

loretoensis and stow-a-way

I took lots of pics of the inteloper because I want to get it ID'd

 

[jollysue]

I will have pics of the C. hastatus and the micropoecilia picta red soon I hope.

And in the works are a colony of L046!

 

[lljdma06]

These are some really nice acquisitions, Jollysue. It is no wonder you have a fish room. Soon it will be a fish house!

 

[Kuhni]

GRRRR i want cories... NOW.

We never get wild caughts , too expensive for the store plus I don't believe there are any australian approved suppliers in south america. the only we get wild caughts in is thru lots of freighting.

Nice cories, I really like the pastazensis.

Oh yeah, whilst running the risk of going off topic, must mention I have a very cool orange laser growing up, with black dorsal and blackish colouring of the top of the body.

 

[jollysue]

Very cool, Kuhni. Where are the pitures of this dark dorsal wonder? I want one of those too!

I moved into this apartment to get out of the fish house! I had evey wall covered with tanks.
I had a very big yard. It was my recreation to work in the yard. But it got to much for me. Now I keep a fish room.

lljdma, can I use the phosphate/carbon filter media from Drs. Fosters and Smith for the planted tanks?

Strangely I seem to be attracted to the stow-a-way almost a pastazensis. The pics of the real ones didn'r come out well. Their color ranges from very pale almost clear with spots to panda white with spots.

The little slim 2" loretoensis is quite a cutee though. Very delicate looking.

 

[Barracuda518]

Fish look really good, Jollysue.

I see you are getting a nice collection of the "long nose" cories. I really like the C. septentrionalis.

 

[jollysue]

C. stenocephalus



Yes I like them. I like them ALL!!!!!



Apparantly the stow-a-way is a C053. Now I have another that I have to find friends for! I suppose it will never end, and I will have the joy of shopping!

 

[Barracuda518]

C. stenocephalus

Thats what I meant to say

Yes I like them. I like them ALL!!!!!



Apparantly the stow-a-way is a C053. Now I have another that I have to find friends for! I suppose it will never end, and I will have the joy of shopping!

Wow, the C053 are nice too. Where did you get it?

 

[jollysue]

It hitchhiked in as a stow-a-way pretending to be a pastazensis. Bryan has a few more so I hope to get a group to add. But look again at the pics of the loretoensis. Do you see some with a mask and some without? There should only be 4 species:
5 x C. pastazensis (with an eye mask and a dorsal slash down the side),
1 x C053 (with only an eye mask),
6 x C. andreas/cf. stenocephalus, and
5 x C. loretoensis.

But I see one loretoensis with darker spots and a mask and some others with slight variations. I understand there are some others that get mixed up as loretoensis. The one with a mask has me coureous.

What do you think?

 

[OldMan47]

Nice pickups JollySue. That is quite an assortment that you have there.

 

[Barracuda518]

It hitchhiked in as a stow-a-way pretending to be a pastazensis. Bryan has a few more so I hope to get a group to add. But look again at the pics of the loretoensis. Do you see some with a mask and some without? There should only be 4 species:
5 x C. pastazensis (with an eye mask and a dorsal slash down the side),
1 x C053 (with only an eye mask),
6 x C. andreas/cf. stenocephalus, and
5 x C. loretoensis.

But I see one loretoensis with darker spots and a mask and some others with slight variations. I understand there are some others that get mixed up as loretoensis. The one with a mask has me coureous.

What do you think?

The only one I see without a "mask" is the one in the last 5 or so pictures.

 

[lljdma06]

lljdma, can I use the phosphate/carbon filter media from Drs. Fosters and Smith for the planted tanks?

Not if you are dosing ferts (the carbon will absorb the nutrients) and I don't usually use carbon/phosphate filter media anyways. Part of the advantage to keeping planted tanks, the plants do the work of the carbon for you. I just stick sponges in my power filters, mostly as a bacteria bed. I don't think I've changed sponges in almost 2 years. I only change them if they begin to disintegrate. I just rinse the sponge in old tank water and slap them back in the filter.

llj