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Wild caught corys

Posted: 05 Mar 2006, 12:18
by gabs
Hello i'm new to his forum> this is an excellent site with excellent reference and excellent pictures. Well done guys.

I recently bought a group of wild caught corys which i'm finding hard to identify. Almost each cory seem to differ in some way from the ohers. Here are some pics..

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Thanking you
gabs

Posted: 05 Mar 2006, 20:48
by WhitePine
Check this link.

probaly a mix of C. leucomelas, C. agassizii and C. ambiacus and/or C. gomezi.

But then again I am not a cory expert.

Posted: 05 Mar 2006, 22:33
by chef
whitepine is right about the first three species but no gomezi unfortunatley :( . when shane did his talk for us last year he said these were caught i their thousands mixed together (leucomelas, ambiacus, and agassizii)

Posted: 06 Mar 2006, 06:16
by housewren
Are these not young C. delphax? To me the head profile looks like it has a hump in the predorsal region.

Cheryl Trine

Posted: 06 Mar 2006, 17:29
by gabs
Thank you all, WhitePine, chef and housewren.

You were all af great help.

Need any other pictures of one of the corys housewren?

Posted: 06 Mar 2006, 19:52
by housewren
Hi Gabs,

If you could provide a picture of the first one, the fish on the left from a direct side angle as you have, but with the face and tail showing

I'm still learning to distinguish C. delphax and, as I understand it, the key points are in the head profile and tail.

Thanks,

Cheryl

Posted: 08 Mar 2006, 11:48
by gabs
Hi housewren..

I will post the pics asap.

Another question please?
do the corys mentioned above cross breed??

Posted: 08 Mar 2006, 11:58
by MatsP
In this thread is a list of known cross-breeding species of Corydoras:

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... hp?t=12026

Of course, just because two species aren't listed above doesn't actually mean that they won't cross-breed. Unfortunately, there's no list of species that will NOT cross-breed. As general rule, fish that live near each other are unlikely to cross-breed (because they wouldn't have split off into separate species if they did!)

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Mats