What's your favorite Cory?

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shammonds
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What's your favorite Cory?

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I'm curious about everyone's personal favorite Corydoras... what's your favorite breed and why?

Personally I've only had 1st hand experience with C. paleatus, but now that I've successfully raised a few batches of them I'm looking forward to trying my hand at one of the more challenging species...
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Post by kev »

The first one ive try'd is Barbatus and they now spawn all the time :D , im going t try C. Robineae next, my lfs has some which are pretty much full size as far as the Aqua Log's info go's. Anyone else had any joy with breeding these?

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Post by Jools »

Always liked C. adolfoi as they are strikingly coloured but i've really liked the big ones and perhaps C. narcissus is my favourite.

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PS S. barbatus is stretching the definition of "Cory" a bit :-)
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Post by kev »

yeah Jool's i know but they where still called Cory's when i bought them :D , and it's hard enough say'n the new name let alone spell it :D .

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Post by mambee »

Adolfoi because of their orange shoulders. I have a shoal of six right now.

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Man, I'm jealous of you all... I think I'll need to set up a new tank soon just so I can get some of these little guys.

As it stands I've got every free 'inch' of my 3 aquaria housing juvenile paleatus until they're big enough to trade.

Has anyone had experience with the Brochis or Aspiradoras species? I never see them in my LFS, but what I've read about them piques my interest.
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Post by Graeme »

C.Concolor. Once settled and fed well, these Corydoras look amazing!
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black on the back fin and black mask I can't resist
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Post by catfishgrrl »

My group of Pandas are my favorite.
Although my Pygmies are at a very close second.
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