Billaney

i use a lot of them , mainly on fry tanks or any tank where the fish are small enough to get cought in more powerful filters , they do clog up but its quick and easy to clean them out once a week

Fantastic Fay !! thats the sort of tank that tempts me to start a saltwater.

I have been given the answer Thank you Chris Downs apparently they are Brochis splendens fry , they are like this young and change to there adult , green cory looking self when they mature ... Thanks Chris and as per usual he's spot on this is them http://www.planetcatfish.com/images/ful ... dens/6.jpg

you got some from the same batch there Afikarn so watch yours too :roll:

No worries mate , I think all my fish are only intersted in two things , food and .....

Hi Guys , well my problem is i have some cory fry that i'm not sure what they are, this is what i did and now think it might not be as simple as i first thought. I have a number of differant corys , namely , sterbi's , trilineatus, schwartz's,Zygatus, peppered ,bronze, Brochis Splendens, and a few more that i could not be because they have not given me eggs yet, All species are in there own seperate tanks so it can't be a hybrid etc But what i did when ever i moved any eggs from there parents i sent a tank and put all the eggs in there to hatch well many have and from looking at all but 1 set i know what they are and will move them before they can be breeding size ( again to aviod hybrids ) but this one set of fry i can't make my mind up on so any help would be great , sorry about the bad photo's but they are still very small at about 10 days old. The dorsal fin seen very large for the size of the fry and folds out like a fan if you know what i mean. Thanks

i saw them last visit too and ALMOST had to buy some lots of floating plants , parents don't seem to eat either eggs or small fry , started on liquid fry food for the first week after free swimming them miroworms then very finelt crushed quality flake and seemed to have no problems ,...good luck KA

i think it is Ira but they really don't seem to mind

:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: just noticed this is a saltwater tread ....sorry guys ... :oops: :oops:

Ok heres one of mine

the bottom two are two i have just bred from :lol: :lol: :lol: but i thought they were just green corys till i read a book on brochis

Hi so going from both the deeper body and dorsal rays as can be seen in these photo's below , the first photo is a long finned bronze cory and has about 8-9 dorsal rays and the two below would be Brochis splendens having the deeper body and 13-15 dorsal rays , would that be correct ? it does tie in with what i have read.

with what other fish ?

great guys thanks

Just a quick question for the killie experts, would it be ok for me to keep a trio of Australe's in the same tank as 4 cory's ? it would not be a perminant thing just until i got there own tank ready 2 weeks at the max ? Thanks

well done , great cory , keep me in mind when you want to sell some please

yours are in wainui water tho Jude

great its good to know they ARE around , where did you get yours from ?

I've been getting very much into Corydoras latley and doing a fair bit of ready, i've come across these guys in a few of the books which seem for a want of a better discription " jumbo cory's" i know there not and are in fact a completely differant genus. Does anyone have any , know where to get any or any other Brochis ? From this site i can tell there was some in NZ ( entered in the national show ) in 2004 but what about now ? Any help would be great or even any thoughts from people who may have kept them in the past - pro's v cons etc Thanks

only too happy to help

got mine too Caryl , Awesome as always working on an artile for you hope to have it done this weekend work permiting

most of the time there great for a quick drop or to feed up new born fry before releasing them into the tanks , just unlucky this time

Damn got up this morning and somhow they all got out the breeding box , i save 6 but looks like the rest got eatern , . a real pain in the a** guess it least i know i have good adult breeders so it won't be long before more babies but very disapointing and i hav no idea how they got out as the lid was on and everything ! , next time there own tank !

that first pic is mind blowing !! just awesome !

its a real nice looking fish but i've not seen another , wish i had