So, these corys came in at my LFS, and they were labelled as trilineatus.
They don't look a lot like the classic tri cory to me (or the LFS chap, for that matter), but my last remaining tri had started behaving in a manner that was depressing me; I'd accidentally pepped up my little pod of old rummies with the addition of two wild caught young 'uns - the rummies were now much, much more
aggressive and had stopped ignoring the lonely little cat. After a few fin nips, he took to perching at the top of a vertical piece of wood, close to the surface where the rummies don't much go. He also exhibited sporadic swim bladder woes - a likely consequence of stress and excessive nitrates in my tank.
Sentiment got the best of me, and I decided I couldn't let the little boog die alone, the only cory left in all the world. I bought him some friends (even though I knew I was introducing them to less than ideal conditions with the nitrates being so high, I figured I'd work hard to get them down fast. Um, responsibility fail: check!)
Anyhow, everybody looks happy now.
I just wanted to se e if any of you have a better ID than trilineatus for them. Picture below (I am not a very good photographer, sorry!)
They're both the new ones - the one behind looks tri-ish, but is the lightest & least mottled of the group.
They don't look a lot like the classic tri cory to me (or the LFS chap, for that matter), but my last remaining tri had started behaving in a manner that was depressing me; I'd accidentally pepped up my little pod of old rummies with the addition of two wild caught young 'uns - the rummies were now much, much more
aggressive and had stopped ignoring the lonely little cat. After a few fin nips, he took to perching at the top of a vertical piece of wood, close to the surface where the rummies don't much go. He also exhibited sporadic swim bladder woes - a likely consequence of stress and excessive nitrates in my tank.
Sentiment got the best of me, and I decided I couldn't let the little boog die alone, the only cory left in all the world. I bought him some friends (even though I knew I was introducing them to less than ideal conditions with the nitrates being so high, I figured I'd work hard to get them down fast. Um, responsibility fail: check!)
Anyhow, everybody looks happy now.
I just wanted to se e if any of you have a better ID than trilineatus for them. Picture below (I am not a very good photographer, sorry!)
They're both the new ones - the one behind looks tri-ish, but is the lightest & least mottled of the group.
