Need help identifing this corydoras

Barracuda518 · Post by **Barracuda518** » 26 Sep 2006, 01:12

I need some help identifing this corydoras. I have been told they were C. aeneus gold shoulder (gold stripe) and wanted to see what everyone else thought. The spot on the head is orange and not gold. I recently got some gold shoulders and they dont look like this cory. I got this cory out of a tank of Brochis Splendons and found 3 smaller ones like it in a tank full of bronze C. aeneus. Anyone have any ideas?

Here it was in the bag:

Thanks for the help.

Yann · Post by **Yann** » 26 Sep 2006, 08:20

HI!

Regular Corydoras aeneus!!
Common strain!!
Cheers
Yann

kim m · Post by **kim m** » 26 Sep 2006, 08:43

For some reason, I can't see the pictures

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Barracuda518 · Post by **Barracuda518** » 26 Sep 2006, 13:19

yannfulliquet wrote:HI!

Regular Corydoras aeneus!!
Common strain!!
Cheers
Yann

By regular, I guess you are saying the bronze C. aeneus? Im pretty sure its not a bronze. I know its a "strain", Im just trying to figure out which one.

kim m, Im not sure why you cant see the pictures. They loaded for me

kim m · Post by **kim m** » 26 Sep 2006, 14:53

I see them now.

I agree with Yann. Regular "C. aeneus".

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 26 Sep 2006, 14:56

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Mats

Barracuda518 · Post by **Barracuda518** » 26 Sep 2006, 15:08

If they are "regular" C. aeneus, then why is there an orange spot on the head and no green color? This cory is mostly gray with a little green over the gills. I have bronze C. aeneus that look totally different. Maybe its a regional varation?

Inchworm · Post by **Inchworm** » 26 Sep 2006, 15:15

Hi Barracuda518,

That cory looks just like one I've been trying to find for a long time now.

Several years ago one of the local chain stores, Petland Discounts, sold them under the common name of "Golden Ears." They carried them for quite a few months with new shipments coming in regularly. Then they stopped and have never had them again. I understand that this chain imports many of their fish.

The fish I am seeking looks just like a bronze C. aeneus, but has a short, brightly colored, line where its ears would be, like in your picture. This line did not extend backward the way it does in the laser corys or Peru Gold Shoulders. I don't remember there being any other unusual coloration on the fins or elsewhere on the fish. The price was no higher than normal for their C. aeneus.

When I saw them each fish in the batch was identical, and each batch was the same. They seemed to be more like a distinct variation than like a few fish having imperfect laser stripes.

Since that time I've heard about other people finding them in small numbers but have never been able to get them myself.