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Has anyone come across these at their lfs recently. I have never seen them and can only assume they are rare and hard to obtain.

MERLIN2 wrote:Has anyone come across these at their lfs recently. I have never seen them and can only assume they are rare and hard to obtain.

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LONDON, U.K

Hi Merlin2


We don't see these little fella's very often and the identificationis not 100% but what ever their name I want more. I have 4 (2 Pair) at the moment and have found them very difficult to breed. Their requirements are: - very soft water 1 -3 GH; pH 6.0 -6.5.

Ian

They are a very pretty cory - how did you come by your fish?

thanks

Hiyah ,...

coryman, you stoked my curiousity. since you said that ID is difficult, what are the stuff that we should be looking out for?

saw some markings on the caudal fin. Are there supposed to be certain number of vertical bars on the caudal fin? what about the dorsal fin?

thanks!

Merlin2

I picked these guys up from Pier Aquatics Wigan about two years ago and have not seen any since.

Philtre

I say not 100& on the ID because they don't match exactly to the description but very close, there are a couple of other species that look similar. The caudal baring and dorsal markings can be vary variable in many species and these are no exception. To tie a fish down as a definate species becaue of the number of spots or bars it has is a bit risky, so I prefer to be a bit more flexable.

ian

Coryman wrote: To tie a fish down as a definate species becaue of the number of spots or bars it has is a bit risky, so I prefer to be a bit more flexable.

ian

hahha ... nahhhh .... wasn't actually asking for the number of spots or bars. I understand that in certain species, they'll have certain characteristics like 4-7 bars on caudal fin vs 3-5 ... that kinda thing.

Actually was wondering about the characteristics that one should be looking out for in order to determine an ID. hehehe ... was just wondering if the bars on the caudal fin could be one of the examples.

cheers

Sure they can. But you generally have to use a whole set of characters (not just one) to get an accurate id.

hehhe...I must be doing a very bad job here ....

Silurus wrote:Sure they can. But you generally have to use a whole set of characters (not just one) to get an accurate id.

yeah HH,
thought there would be a whole list of stuff to look out for.... that's why asking about which characteristics to look out for. like maybe e.g. bars on caudal fin. heheheh ... curiousity killed the cat.


cheers

Depends on which group of catfishes you are looking at. Color works reasonably well with some groups and very poorly with others. For cories, I would say it works reasonably well most of the time.