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I've got a small school of them, and all 6 are the same species, but I can't seem to figure out for sure what species they are.
On wet web media they have a picture that looks nearly identical to them that they say are Corydoras melanistius, yet it gives a link to fishbase to look at them more and that/those pictures look nowhere near the ones I have. Nor do the ones that this site has.
Gilraen Took wrote:yet it gives a link to fishbase to look at them more and that/those pictures look nowhere near the ones I have.
Pls note that FB has many unverified pictures. They go with the caption: May be another species. I checked C. melanistius (which has no such caption) and when I clicked the picture I got four that are supposed to be C. melanistius, but are actually 2 different species. Which indicates that verified is not always properly verified.
With regard to your species: I instantly thought of the above species too.
You'd better wait for the experts; they won't be long.
This is definitely true- I've seen catfish with pictures of tetras and cichlids with pictures of gouramis (I kid you not) on FishBase, although they do seem to update them from time to time.
They look like they're one or the other of those. Hopefully all 6 are the same species. They look like they are.
