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[kuhni]

Hi, I'm Michael, new to the forum. I'm 14 and live in Hamilton Hill, conveniently near Veba's . I have been fish keeping for nearly 4 months now and my favourite fish has to be my corys.

I have 6 Trilineatus
4 Rabauti
4 Leucomelas
1 Reticulatus

What Corys do you have?

btw are there any fish groups that do auctions of fish like corys?

[Fox]

Hi Michael,
Welcome to the forum.

Ive kept alot of Cory cats over the years, They would have to be one of my favorite "bread & butter" fish.
My fav is C.Barbatus very hard to get here in Tassie and when they do come in they are VERY expensive.
Have you seen the Hognose Brochis?
Brochis multiradiatus
Click here

These are pretty cool, They get big for a cory species (not that they are cory species, but they similar ) And they can live quite well with Cories.
And the Pygmy Cories are awesome little cats as well.

Have you got any pics of your cories?
Would love to see them.

Cheers
Aquatic Dreams™

[kuhni]

My fave photo of my trilineatus mama, I'll try take some photos of my others now. Wish me luck

[anchar]

Welcome to the forums! I used to keep/collect as many different types of corys that I could find. Nice fish and picture.

Andrea

[Andrew]

whats the cory in the background?

[kuhni]

one of the other 5 trilineatus. I've just taken some photos of my other cories and I got a really good photo if I say so myself.
In process of downloading to comp at the moment.

[Andrew]

what size tank? what are its specifics ie filtration etc

[kuhni]

I have a 12 G and a 21G, atm I am extremely pissed off, my awesome photo became alot darker and lost clarity when it was uploaded. Anyone know how to use paint to adjust it? maybe?

When I made it small it looks semi crap, better than being crap like it is large.

[Fox]

Great shot,

Ive never used Paint to mess with Photo's, I always use Photoshop CS2.

[kuhni]

i've got photoshop on my dad's comp, but my CD Drive's laser is stuffed and doesnt read cd's well lol.

EDIT: nvm I found a great online photoeditting tool so easy to use. http://pxn8.com/index.pl It worked too!
EDIT2: Added photos
Here's the brightened pic- these are 2 C. Leucomelas- got them a week or two ago from Veba's, they still had them last time i went $16.50 each



Here's my Reticulatus- was last one at Veba's never saw any others for the 3 weeks I noticed it was there. $18.50~


Here's a couple of my Rabauti - cost me $8.50 each but i dont think they have any left, only zygatus

[Fox]

Awesome pics mate.

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers
Aquatic Dreams™

[kuhni]

at the meetings, are there any Corys for sale? What usually is the activities involved at the metings, I'm guessing it's fairly cichlid based, shame I'm not into cichlids as of yet cos of cost.

[Adam]

Stay away from the cichlids. Their only hosts or food for catfish.

I've got a nice colony of 20 odd C. sterbi in my display tank. Every year they seem to breed enough for a couple to escape what ever else I have floating around with them.

Stick to your corries and see which ones you can breed.

Adam

[Catfish]

Nice photos, at least they are nice and clear, taking photos of fish can be tricky with low lighting.
I suspect those Rabuti are actually Zygatus - not wanting to stir up anyone but they look like the Zygatus I have had for approx 12 years, the rabuti had slightly different body shape and personally I haven't had them live as long as the Zygatus.

My list of Corys.

23 Adult Barbatus (mostly home bred)
8 juveniles barbatus(home bred)
7 Harald Shultzi
13 Adolfi (4 orig adults left, rest are home bred offspring all mature now)
25 Pygmeus (7 adults, rest offspring home bred)
7 unknown species - cant find any reference and have all catfish/cory books
12 habrosus (5 adults, 7 offspring almost reached maturity now)
6 Sterbai ( 3 adults, 3 sub adults home bred)
6 Melanistius (2 original adults, 4 adults - home bred offspring)
1 atropersonatus
1 Ornatus
3 Leopardus
1 true Juli (not trilientus)
5 Zygatus
6 Concolour ( 2 adults left, 4 sub adults home bred)
12 robinae (4 adults, 8 sub adults home bred)
14 axelrodi (3 adults rest offspring home bred now reaching maturity)
6 axelrodi deckeri ( only 3 orig adults, 3 offspring home bred)
6 Arcuatus ( 4 adults, 2 offspring home bred)

[kuhni]

You Wouldn't be able to take a photo of your julii would you? A Renowned Breeder on another forum is trying to find some photos of a true julii. Frank Falcone is the forementioned Breeder.

Also wondering if you would have some of your cory offspring up for sale?
Interested in the pygmaeus and Habrosus.
perhaps Adolfoi if I have the space.
Steve didn't have any dwarf cories when I last enquired.

Also I was able to pick up some baby gold shoulder cories from Veba's $18.50 each or 4 for 70$.

[aquadog]

Hi all, new member

I've only got a few types of corys at the moment -

C. trilineatus and C. similis,

but I have two new tanks starting up soon (a std 5ft and a 4x18"x18") so looking to get some more

Choices, choices!

Paula

[Cicolid]

G'day Kuhni.

The next PCS Auction is scheduled for April.
It is not solely Cichlid based, nor is the PCS.
There is no guarantee what will be up for auction on the night.
People are asked to send a list of their items which is then posted on the PCS forum, but not many people bother to do this.
In the past there has been for auction :- Malawi and Tanganyikan Cichlids, Tropical fish, Rainbow fish, Catfish, etc, heaps of bogwood, plus plants, tanks, bags of gravel and sand.

If you need any more info' please contact me.

Cheers
Col

[Dave76]

I'll have some sterbais available for the next auction all going to plan...

[Fish Antics]

I just picked up a group of Brochis Splendens from Veba's today. This will be my first venture into Corys.

Tony

[kuhni]

they wouldnt happen to be the XL ones I saw while browsing earlier today