bekateen wrote:By the way, you have a very nice group of animals in your tank. Most of those species I've never seen in a store before.

Oh thanks! Im lucky to have 3 pretty good aquarium fish stores nearby I guess!

Local fish shop had a customer report a

C. sterbai x C. paleatus hybrid

Probably very rare, but just thought Id post it here.

Hi Waldharjaz, Makes sense, the guy at my store (not a chain pet store, but an aquarium specialist) has told me that he has better and worse batches of C. habrosus, apparently the earlier in the season he gets them the better! The longer they spend time in storage basins in S-America the worse.. I'...

  EDIT: The affected cory has sadly died. I will be doing bigger water changes on that tank from now on, as I believe that to have contributed to the problem. A individual of C. habrosus in my tanks has developed a growth on its tail. My assumption was that this must be fungal, thus Ive given the fi...

JamesFish wrote:I cant seeany cover it could just be nervous and not colouring up trying putting something in it can sit under to give it a shady area.

Okay thanks

Last week I've bought 3 sterbai's to accompany my existing 5.
However while in the quarantine tank I noticed one of the three is very light coloured.

Should I be worried?

Thanks for any replies