Who Is The Common Albino Cory?

[snowflake311]

I thought most albinos where the bronze. But then I read that many are the peppered. Not I'm confused? So what are the albinos how do I tell them apart? I have 3 albinos I don't know what kind and one bronze that was all alone at the store. I thought that were the same fish now I don't know.

My bronze is bigger and likes to chase and almost attacks the smaller albinos. Like he wants to spawn but they don't want to.

I'm looking for a few other bronze for my lone guy.

 

[Harlequins]

Has far has i know the albino and bronze are the same,the albino being a colour variant of the bronze

Peppers are a different cory.

 

[Haych]

i wouldnt have said an albino is a pepper as they are considerably bigger.

can you not just get more albinos? maybe the bigger is chasing the smaller, but the smaller are younger?

i have this with my peppers, one is ALOT smaller as he is younger

 

[snowflake311]

I have 3 albinos that are smaller then the bronze. The bronze is the only one and he is the one that needs more friends I have to wait till next Thursday to see what other corys this store gets in. I would like to get 2 more bronze.

I was reading that the peppered corys can be albino too so I was thinking what ones do I have?

 

[Harlequins]

Can you put a pic up of your cories and we could id them

 

[snowflake311]

Ok so I got some photos they are not great because these guys ever stop moving.

But here is a good one of my big bronze and smaller albino. Looking at this photo the Dorsal fins look the same more rounded then Peppered corys. So I'm pretty sure the albinos I have are Corydoras aeneus. I read in a mag that most albinos are peppered corys. That's why I got confused. I'm going in on Wednesday to look for more friends for these guys. I'm keeping my 20 gal a Cory only tank. These guys are doing much better then ANY of the others I tried to keep. So I have a good feeling I got it right this time. WOO HOO.

The larger bronze

 

[Curiosity101]

Having owned all of the above. I'd say albinos are basically albino Corydoras Aeneus.
Peppered corydoras have an entirely different shape to bronze corys. They longer/bigger, but also more slender. And in my experience have more of a 'snout' than the bronze and albino.

 

[snowflake311]

Having owned all of the above. I'd say albinos are basically albino Corydoras Aeneus.
Peppered corydoras have an entirely different shape to bronze corys. They longer/bigger, but also more slender. And in my experience have more of a 'snout' than the bronze and albino.

Thanks.

 

[JustKia]

Having owned all of the above. I'd say albinos are basically albino Corydoras Aeneus.
Peppered corydoras have an entirely different shape to bronze corys. They longer/bigger, but also more slender. And in my experience have more of a 'snout' than the bronze and albino.

Very well put.
Peppereds are quite a bit bigger than the bronzes, andit does seem that the albino bronzes (C.aeneus) are much more common than albino peppereds (C.paleatus).

 

[Amerce]

All of the attached are from the Aenus group -Aenus genus

 

[StrontiumDog]

To my un-expert eye the bronze looks alot like mine that were ID as Golden Shoulders.

Edit: Not the albino.