---Please help to ID these Corydoras --

[tobalman]

Hi

What do you think they are ?

Thanks

[soltari007]

The famous aeneus?

[tobalman]

Thank you bro, some suggested they are Corydoras melanotaenia.

http://www.plecoworld.org/modules.ph...ewtopic&t=1758

I do wish that they are warm water so I could keep them with my plecos.

[RonWill]

Sam, isn't that your favorite Corydoras eques???
Pssst... I managed to roll off a couple of Mark's Corydoras barbatus... huge mother of an egg from such small buggers!!

[vannel]

Hmm. After a little research into the topic, here's what I managed to dig up.

C. Melanotaenia - It's also known as the "elongate bronze cory" and with good reason, as at first glance it does indeed resemble C. Aeneus quite closely. However on further inspection the differences between the two become apparent. Corydoras melanotaenia is unsurprisingly the more elongate fish overall, and has a distinctive golden/yellow tinge to the fins.

C. Eques - Although similar to C. melanotaenia, its fins are not coloured and it is a shorter, more compact fish. The area around the gills is bright orange.

C. Aeneus - (In short, which does not help) A very variable species.

* All descriptions of the subspecies are referenced from PlanetCatfish and/or SeriouslyFish.


Personally, I would go with C. Melanotaenia due to the fact that they do seem to have a sharper "face" than pictures of C. Aeneus that I have looked at. Does seem to fit into the C. Melanotaenia description.

[stormhawk]

These are C. melanotaenia.

[tobalman]

Thank you very much for your help.

Happy Halloween everyone.

[RonWill]

We're all glad to be of some help. BTW, what substrate is that? I like the color but if the grit were a tad smaller, that would be great for cories.

[tobalman]

Hi I used Eco completed Black substrate

http://www.petsolutions.com/storefro...ariumSubstrate

Thanks again.