Went to a large aquarium store today. Cories and more!

I visited a doctor with my brother today in Monroeville PA, and Elmer's Aquarium was nearby, big beautiful store I adore and I can't get there often. He went back to the home in a wheelchair van, so I was alone with time to browse and a credit card!!
I've never heard of this variety of corydora and only wanted 2 or 3, but they had 4 left - who in their right mind would leave one alone? They are Puntatus, and all 4 were at the end of the tank and I snapped a picture.
I also asked for 5 neons and 5 embers, and she got me 7 of each. They went into different tanks. 8 amano shrimp I split between 3 tanks, a pair of yellow Neocaridina shrimp that went to my shrimp tank, and 3 green shrimp that went into a newer 10 gallon that has biofilm. They're with these cories and amber tetras. Also bought plants with red in them, floating them in the 2 10 gallon tanks til roots grow out.

Fun afternoon, I cant afford that kind of trip too often!

 

These corys look so cute.

 

They are beautiful Corys but misnamed.
A lot of Corys are called C.punctatus cause it means "spotted". C.punctatus is not in the trade though.

Think these are C.agassizii or C.ambiacus. They are wildcaught and need a bit of fatting up. Bloodworms, brineshrimp, shimppellets, etc....

Not a fan of the gravel for these guys. Think about making a sandbeach.

 

They are beautiful Corys but misnamed.
A lot of Corys are called C.punctatus cause it means "spotted". C.punctatus is not in the trade though.

Think these are C.agassizii or C.ambiacus. They are wildcaught and need a bit of fatting up. Bloodworms, brineshrimp, shimppellets, etc....

Not a fan of the gravel for these guys. Think about making a sandbeach.

Thank you for that, they will definitely be fattened up. I have a large piece (10-12") of a thick cholla branch in there, and a nest of catappa leaves and a stone they can rest on. I had 4 false juliis in a 20 gallon tank of gravel substrate and they did great for a couple years until I tore that tank apart, then they went to the 40. My other tanks have sand and I wanted 1 with gravel. If I ever see any damage to them from being cut, I promise they'll go into my 40 gallon with 20+ other cories and sand. Or I'll start another 10 gallon... which will likely happen anyway. I feed my cories shrimp pellets every night, and when I just had 5 fish in the tank, I know I was overfeeding, so they ate lots of leftovers. Those were albinos, which I put back into the larger tank last night.

If I did make a sandbeach in there, wouldn't the gravel just move and cover it? I never understood how that worked. My 40 gallon has about 1/3 of it as gravel and it sure travels. Especially with amanos moving it all over the place!

So what variety shall I call them? I never heard of this one before.

 

I visited a doctor with my brother today in Monroeville PA, and Elmer's Aquarium was nearby, big beautiful store I adore and I can't get there often. He went back to the home in a wheelchair van, so I was alone with time to browse and a credit card!!
I've never heard of this variety of corydora and only wanted 2 or 3, but they had 4 left - who in their right mind would leave one alone? They are Puntatus, and all 4 were at the end of the tank and I snapped a picture.
I also asked for 5 neons and 5 embers, and she got me 7 of each. They went into different tanks. 8 amano shrimp I split between 3 tanks, a pair of yellow Neocaridina shrimp that went to my shrimp tank, and 3 green shrimp that went into a newer 10 gallon that has biofilm. They're with these cories and amber tetras. Also bought plants with red in them, floating them in the 2 10 gallon tanks til roots grow out.

Fun afternoon, I cant afford that kind of trip too often!

OMG! I grew up in North Hills PA. About 30 minutes away.

I loved the Italian bakery by Monroeville mall - please tell me it's still there.

Your cory cats are so cute! they are one of my favorite fish in the hobby. Good luck with your new additions

 

Sweet looking cory cats, I love the black dorsal!

 

OMG! I grew up in North Hills PA. About 30 minutes away.

I loved the Italian bakery by Monroeville mall - please tell me it's still there.

Your cory cats are so cute! they are one of my favorite fish in the hobby. Good luck with your new additions

I honestly don't know about the bakery, but it sounds yummy! I live about 45 minutes north, in Butler County.

 

Thank you for that, they will definitely be fattened up. I have a large piece (10-12") of a thick cholla branch in there, and a nest of catappa leaves and a stone they can rest on. I had 4 false juliis in a 20 gallon tank of gravel substrate and they did great for a couple years until I tore that tank apart, then they went to the 40. My other tanks have sand and I wanted 1 with gravel. If I ever see any damage to them from being cut, I promise they'll go into my 40 gallon with 20+ other cories and sand. Or I'll start another 10 gallon... which will likely happen anyway. I feed my cories shrimp pellets every night, and when I just had 5 fish in the tank, I know I was overfeeding, so they ate lots of leftovers. Those were albinos, which I put back into the larger tank last night.

If I did make a sandbeach in there, wouldn't the gravel just move and cover it? I never understood how that worked. My 40 gallon has about 1/3 of it as gravel and it sure travels. Especially with amanos moving it all over the place!

So what variety shall I call them? I never heard of this one before.

I put my money on C.agassizii.

I don't dislike the gravel cause it is sharp but they won't be able to shift through it and food get put of reach pretty fast (pollution).

 

I put my money on C.agassizii.

I don't dislike the gravel cause it is sharp but they won't be able to shift through it and food get put of reach pretty fast (pollution).

Hard to see in the image but it looks like the black on the dorsal only goes halfway up? (Though could be stress).

Thank you for that, they will definitely be fattened up. I have a large piece (10-12") of a thick cholla branch in there, and a nest of catappa leaves and a stone they can rest on. I had 4 false juliis in a 20 gallon tank of gravel substrate and they did great for a couple years until I tore that tank apart, then they went to the 40. My other tanks have sand and I wanted 1 with gravel. If I ever see any damage to them from being cut, I promise they'll go into my 40 gallon with 20+ other cories and sand. Or I'll start another 10 gallon... which will likely happen anyway. I feed my cories shrimp pellets every night, and when I just had 5 fish in the tank, I know I was overfeeding, so they ate lots of leftovers. Those were albinos, which I put back into the larger tank last night.

If I did make a sandbeach in there, wouldn't the gravel just move and cover it? I never understood how that worked. My 40 gallon has about 1/3 of it as gravel and it sure travels. Especially with amanos moving it all over the place!

So what variety shall I call them? I never heard of this one before.

The sand beach you will want to move the gravel out of the way and fill in that space with sand so the two have the one edge meeting but are less likely to mix.

 

Hard to see in the image but it looks like the black on the dorsal only goes halfway up? (Though could be stress).


The sand beach you will want to move the gravel out of the way and fill in that space with sand so the two have the one edge meeting but are less likely to mix.

Point is that all those spotted Corys and certainly C.agassizii and C.ambiacus have several tens / hundreds (local) appearances.
I think some of those lack full the black spine in the dorsal.

Corydoras(ln8sc4) agassizii

 

Marlene, cute new additions!

DoubleDutch mentioned that corydoras sift through the sand to get food - it's fascinating! Visit this thread: Corydoras FAQ. In the first post there is a close up, slow motion video that shows them sucking food and sand into their mouth and then "spit out" the remaining sand through their gills after removing the food. I have watched some of my own cories do this and it's just... So cool. I don't think I would have ever seen it if I hadn't watched that video and known what I was looking for. Cories are made for sand and meant for sand. Any effort you could make towards that will result in happier cories!

Congrats on your new littles!