Top Ten Corydoras

[William21]

Limited to the United Kingdom, what do you think are the top ten (or 20 if you like! ) most commonly available Corydoras in fish shops? It’s nice to pick all kinds of fish you like the look of from a book but many are unlikely to be available locally. TIA.

[bekateen]

I've been in only a handful of UK shops, but this is what I recall:

In lineage order, then alphabetical, with commonly mistaken spp. paired, and may be offered as something else:

• Corydoras(Ln5) elegans
• Corydoras(Ln6) paleatus
• Corydoras(Ln7) aeneus
  (normal and albino are common)
• Brochis splendens
• Corydoras(Ln8sc4) agassizii
  /
  Corydoras(Ln8sc4) ambiacus
• Corydoras(Ln8sc4) delphax
  (delphax can be mixed with agassizii and ambiacus, and also with brevirostris and melanistius)
• Corydoras(Ln9) brevirostris
  /
  Corydoras(Ln9) melanistius
• Corydoras(Ln9) leucomelas
  (sold as almost everything, but commonly
  Corydoras(Ln9) punctatus
  )
• Corydoras(Ln9) sterbai
• Corydoras(Ln9) trilineatus
  (probably sold as
  Corydoras(Ln9) julii
  ; if wild caught, may have
  Corydoras(Ln8sc4) sp(C102)
  mixed in)

Cheers, Eric

[William21]

Thanks Eric, I’ll check them out in my books!

[Reindas]

I agree with your selection. In a personal note I would add the Corydoras Panda. But that’s just me and make it 11.

[bekateen]

I agree with your selection. In a personal note I would add the Corydoras Panda. But that’s just me and make it 11.

Yes you're absolutely right in the USA. I don't recall seeing

Corydoras(Ln9) panda

in the UK, but I'm confident it's common in the UK also.

Thanks!
Eric

[Bas Pels]

I would assume C panda is in the top 10 in the Netherlands. You see them everywhere.

Further the dwarfs, C pygmaeus, are also very common here

[dw1305]

Hi all,
I'd add

Corydoras(ln9) panda

and

Corydoras(ln4) pygmaeus

for the UK.

Corydoras panda breeds successfully in hard water so you often see hobbiest bred ones for sale in this area (Bath, Swindon, Bristol).

cheers Darrel