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Started seeing these pop up in online stores recently and now my lfs has a school in their display tank. They don’t sell out of the display generally but I have a pretty solid business relationship with the freshwater guy and got him to agree to sell them to me at a great price in exchange for him getting the option to purchase fry before I list them elsewhere.
The point though is that they do look like a separate but otherwise identical larger species of horseman’s but they are not listed on this site (yet?) curious if anyone has seen these/ has these and can confirm that they are a relatively newly available species? Do they like the same tank conditions as regular horseman’s?

Super Eques Corydoras is one of those older common names for C. eques, no? I remember something about Peruvian and Brazilian populations, maybe someone else can expand. I will look it up if not.

Cheers,

Jools

I am by no means an expert. I have an eques cory that I purchased a few years ago from a lfs. It was labelled "super eques". The story on the name is that the deeply colored specimens are labelled "super" and the brightly colored specimens aren't. I believe that Jools is right and this involves collection location. On the other hand I was recently at another lfs who claimed they had 50+ "super eques" in stock and they had C. schultzei.
Just my 2 cents.
-- Sean

Honestly, I think you are right. These fish are bigger than my other horseman’s but they are also much more deeply colored, it is possible that the size of these ones is just kind of a fluke or is location based.
They are some nice looking fish and I am going to pick them up either way, but being as I breed corys I wanted to get some second opinions. It is important to me that I be completely accurate when describing my fish and their care needs to people.
Thanks!

Jools
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Phoenix.L wrote: ↑10 Feb 2023, 15:10 Honestly, I think you are right. These fish are bigger than my other horseman’s but they are also much more deeply colored, it is possible that the size of these ones is just kind of a fluke or is location based.
They are some nice looking fish and I am going to pick them up either way, but being as I breed corys I wanted to get some second opinions. It is important to me that I be completely accurate when describing my fish and their care needs to people.
Thanks!



Jools

Pictures would be nice

Jeanne