A bonus from the "spotted cory" tank

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cincy
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A bonus from the "spotted cory" tank

Post by cincy »

I find some of the most interesting things in tanks marked "spotted corys" and "julii".

Tonight I found a tank with fifteen mixed corys, a few trilineatus, one schwartzi and two species I have never seen before. I bought the whole tank as I could not bear the thought of them trying the catch, and beat up, the 8 or 10 I wanted.

So what did I find?

My three first guesses are:
  • a very plain varient of the "laser" corys

    C89

    C. aeneus (schultzei) is close, but there is no green tint excect for the metallic green seen with the flash.
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Post by bedwetter »

I came across these guys in a tank of 'spotted cories' too. I got them at a Petsmart :oops: - there were only 3 however, and all female. Too bad, because they are a nice species.

They are supposedly a new species in the 'elegans group' (I think from Peru). Ian Fuller has supposedly bred them, but other than that I haven't heard much about them.
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Post by kim m »

This would be the "gold line elegans" wich I personally would very much like to get my hands on...seriously doubt that will ever happen in Denmark...
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Post by Coryman »

These fish belong to the so called "elegans" group and originate from Colombia.The are relatively easy to breed, well mine are. I have seven or eight in a mixed tank along with six or seven other species and it is in this communal tank that they spawn. None of the other species in the tank seem bothered and I just harvest the eggs. The pictures show the difference between male and female and the colour pattern changes the fry go through.

Ian

C. sp cf elegans (gold line) male
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C. sp cf elegans (gold line) female
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C. sp cf elegans (gold line) 7 days
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C. sp cf elegans (gold line) 4 weeks
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C. sp cf elegans (gold line) 6 weeks
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Post by cincy »

These fish finally spawned for me. Is the consensus that they are still "C. sp cf elegans (gold line)". Are there any other online pictures or other info of them?
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Post by kim m »

Congrats on the spawning :)

Ian has given them a number; CW-008 (CW is for CorydorasWorld).
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