belly?

chrisinha · Post by **chrisinha** » 16 Jan 2005, 06:59

is it normal for an albino cory aeneus to have a little belly??

PlecoCrazy · Post by **PlecoCrazy** » 16 Jan 2005, 07:35

If you mean sunken then no. If that is not what you mean please elaborate.

chrisinha · Post by **chrisinha** » 16 Jan 2005, 07:42

i mean like when livebearers are pregnant and they have a belly. i'm sorry i dont know what "sunken" means.

martijn · Post by **martijn** » 16 Jan 2005, 10:28

Hi, maybe a picture helps.

I used to have C. Aeneus. The old females got nice round bellys. And on the bellys i could distinguish some red vains.
They were in perfect health! (and old & a little bit fat

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Bye Martijn

chrisinha · Post by **chrisinha** » 17 Jan 2005, 04:44

i've never thought it would be so hard to take pictures of cories! the only one that came out so so was this one. i dont know if you can see what i'm saying though, but i guess you're right and i was actually just thinkin about it, i mean, that my cories must be old, or at least full adults because they're so big, and i went to this store the other day and there were microscopic albino cories! i'd still like to know if they're females or males...

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 17 Jan 2005, 11:15

Looks pretty healthy to me. It could be a female that is gravid ("pregnant with eggs"), which is generally a good thing. It may mean that you have to get a baby-nest for the eggs/fry later on, if you have that luck.

Or it could just be that it's been eating quite a lot lately. Just like humans, fish get a bigger belly before any other part goes big...

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Mats

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 17 Jan 2005, 16:42

It is a female: the ventral fins are rounded.

chrisinha · Post by **chrisinha** » 17 Jan 2005, 17:19

thanks!

but i dont think she's gravid: it's likely i only have females, so no baby fry for me.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 17 Jan 2005, 17:55

chrisinha wrote:thanks!

but i dont think she's gravid: it's likely i only have females, so no baby fry for me.

Oh, she'll still be gravid if the food/water is good enough. She just won't spawn the eggs, as there's no male to spawn with, and thus, you won't get any fry.

Gravid when used about fish is that they carry eggs ready to spawn, not that the eggs are actually fertile and ready to become new fishes.

Could of course just be that she's "fat"...

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Mats

chrisinha · Post by **chrisinha** » 17 Jan 2005, 18:36

oohhhh i did not know it ...

if i knew how to identify the gender i would get a male.

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 17 Jan 2005, 19:30

Simple, the males have pointed ventral fins.

chrisinha · Post by **chrisinha** » 17 Jan 2005, 22:28

aww... would you have a picture of a male and another of a female for me to see and compare? i went to my LFS today but couldnt tell the difference and neither could the guy from the store. he just said his cories are too young to know... i want a male!!! I want my girls to be happy!! ack!!

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 18 Jan 2005, 10:16

Haven't got any pictures, but if you look at the fins at the "bottom middle" of the fish, they are rounded on the ends. A male would be more "square" at the end. It's not clear on any of the pictures in the cat-eLog, but it's visible on a few of the pictures. Especially the stamp at the end [not the one in the middle, that's a Brochis Splendens, obviously got misplaced...]

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Mats