Help identify my Corys

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Roger Cha
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Help identify my Corys

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Hello,
I am new to the forum and was hoping you can help me identify my new Corys. I bought them a couple of minutes ago and was told they were Julii Corys. The store owner seemed pretty doubtful on naming them. So I came home and searched Julii and these seem similar but do not have the big black spot on their dorsal fin.
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Hi Roger Cha,

First welcome to PlanetCatfish!

About your fish, what you have there is . A very nice cory (I have some myself). Take good care of them and they will develop a nice green iridescence on their sides when they are in good condition.

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Hmmm... you might have a mix there. Striped dorsal fins and black dorsal fins. Maybe both sodalis and reticulatus?
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backstreetgambler wrote: 02 Sep 2017, 09:29Hmmm... you might have a mix there. Striped dorsal fins and black dorsal fins. Maybe both sodalis and reticulatus?
Oh, good catch! I did not notice the darker fin in back.

Other option is . I recently got some mixed in with my sodalis.

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Correct, one out of the 6 I bought does have a black spotted dorsal. CW061 might be that one.

Thanks for both your help.
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Roger Cha wrote: 02 Sep 2017, 16:42 Correct, one out of the 6 I bought does have a black spotted dorsal. CW061 might be that one.
If the black is a nearly round spot, your fish is . If the black forms one or two think black diagonal or horizontal stripes though the dorsal fin, then the fish is .
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