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  • 4 weeks later...

I don't know how I missed the common plecos the first time I saw this topic.

The first two photos are Leviathan.  At 16" and 12 yrs. old, he/she  was the largest and most interesting fish I've owned.  The last pleco will probably be named snow plow because of it's swimming habits.  At two years, it is one of the hardest working members of the cleanup crew. 

 

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  • 2 months later...

Corydoras catfish are the best! I have albinos (C. aeneus), orange venezuelans (C. venezuelanus), peppers (C. paleatus), and pygmies (C. pygmaeus) in my 29 gallon tank.

Here are two of the albino females and a venezuelan male:

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A large group of cories, mostly juvenile peppered cories:

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The biggest cory of the tank - a female peppered cory:

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Here you can see her size compared to the other cories:

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Two peppered cories (male and baby), the venezuelan male, and an albino female:

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23 hours ago, laritheloud said:

I have six juvenile corydoras elegans!!! Love these cute little guys! 

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Where did you find your Corydoras elegans? I can't seem to find them anywhere but online, and even then, they are usually sold out. Is it easy for local stores to order them in by special request?

Thanks.

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38 minutes ago, CorydorasEthan said:

Where did you find your Corydoras elegans? I can't seem to find them anywhere but online, and even then, they are usually sold out. Is it easy for local stores to order them in by special request?

Thanks.

Honestly, I just got lucky! My LFS tends to have a massive rotating stock of corydoras, and I carefully went around and took a look at all they had and the number they had in stock before settling on one. I really loved the orange laser cories but there was only one or two left, and I knew I wanted a group of at least 6. These little guys were in stock, and I took more than half of what was left in the tank. They were being housed with some equally cute skunk cories.

It doesn't hurt to ask if your LFS can special order them. I have never seen them in person before and I found them really sweet, and I liked that they weren't the largest/bulkiest of cories without being a pygmy, too.

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