My brochis like to sit in a line at the front of my tank and watch TV.
Here they're watching the movie Lesbian Vampire Hunters.
Silly fish.
Now I suspect that I have a mix of brochis species, as some of them are just a hair larger than Splendens is supposed to get, but they'll rarely sit and let me count rays. There are 10 of them in the tank, and they are quite fun to watch. Very social, very active, and always right up at the front of the glass.
Hi Alaskan Corydoras-
nice-looking fish- I love Brochis. The ones you've pictured do all look like splendens to me; mine are the only corys I've got which aren't shy- they make doing a gravel vac a pain because they come steaming in looking for food, whereas all my other corys (weitzmani, sterbai, pestai, pygmaeus, CW021) cower whenever they detect me near their tanks. It might help that the Brochis are in a group of 13, whereas I've not got more than six of any other species?
Same way with my brochis, honestly. Well, my paelatus are also gregarious, but are in another tank. (And I have over 10 of 'em too. . .) In the future I'll definately be keeping a minimum of 10 of each species of cory.
The tank is designed specifically to show off the colors of the fish within. It's a rainbow/cory tank, after all. . . My emerald green rainbows went down to sniff my emerald green cories the second they went in. Was cute. . .
AlaskanCorydoras wrote:The biggest ones in the tank are 3"
Most of the ones in the photo are 2-2.5"
Are those measurements standard length (without caudal fin) or total length? My biggest females look a lot like yours and are about the same size (standard length), but I'm sure I've seen splendens slightly bigger than that in fish shows (though still a lot smaller than multiradiatus and britskii get).
This picture's 18 months old but the larger ones haven't much grown during that time:
An older still picture- the juvenile in the picture is now indistinguishable from her mum:
