Could anyone pls confirm the species for this fella

zac08 · Post by **zac08** » 06 Mar 2003, 15:37

I got a trio of these high / long finned and long tailed cories..... and they were ID'd as Corydorus sp. cf. steindachneri

Is the name correct? ANy common names for them??

Post by **Silurus** » 06 Mar 2003, 15:38

These are the artificially-bred long-finned forms of <i>Corydoras paleatus</i>.
God, what monstrosities.

zac08 · Post by **zac08** » 06 Mar 2003, 15:44

So I should use paleatus??

Anyway... I have one more for you to ID....

Sorry but I posted it in the wrong sub-forum....

Here is the thread :

http://forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?t=1018

Post by **Silurus** » 06 Mar 2003, 15:58

So I should use paleatus??

Yup.
A number of people in this forum feel strongly about keeping man-made strains like these. You might have already guessed that I'm one of them.

zac08 · Post by **zac08** » 06 Mar 2003, 16:07

I guess creating a form of these isn't pretty good at all, esp for the natural ones....

But since I got them, they'd still get the care and love anyway.... hehehehe... I didn't know that they were such a mutated form anyway... Such long wavy fins, to a newbie like me, they're something really different...

Sid Guppy · Post by **Sid Guppy** » 06 Mar 2003, 19:12

Can't blame you for taking it as a new species; there's a 'paleatus-look-a-like' where the males have very long fins indeed: Corydoras macropterus. The tailfin however is short. They look a bit like your fish, but more "in proportion" as one might say.

in the CateLog are more pics.

STINGRAY · Post by **STINGRAY** » 06 Mar 2003, 20:22

I have seen hybrid longfin koi before, but never a cory. In my opinion its one step too far. When will the fish farms learn that messing with nature in this way will only lead to more problems in general, disease wise unfortunately

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 06 Mar 2003, 21:17

the problem is "if you breed it, they will buy"

Graeme · Post by **Graeme** » 06 Mar 2003, 22:55

What's the Cat in the third Picture? Whiptail?

Post by **Silurus** » 06 Mar 2003, 23:03

Looks like a <i>Sturisoma</i>.

Sid Guppy · Post by **Sid Guppy** » 07 Mar 2003, 03:24

Yep, but a bad one, look at the headshape (usually slopes upward) and the dorsal spine; looks like an inbred specimen to me....

zac08 · Post by **zac08** » 07 Mar 2003, 08:07

Graeme wrote:What's the Cat in the third Picture? Whiptail?

That's a juv. royal dwarf twig which I got from a fren who had successfully bred them at home....

Post by **Coryman** » 07 Mar 2003, 17:44

I am sorry but your Cory's are mutant (Man made) C. paleatus

Breeding group of C. steindachneri.

Ian

zac08 · Post by **zac08** » 08 Mar 2003, 02:46

Coryman wrote:I am sorry but your Cory's are mutant (Man made) C. paleatus

Breeding group of C. steindachneri.

Ian

Thanks for the confirmation. Coz I prefer to have a name to the fishes I have in my tank...