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Ernie
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On the way back from DC and Baltimore the other day, I couldn't resist stopping at Elmer's Aquarium in Monroeville, PA (outside Pittsburgh) to scope out some new finned friends. It's so close to the PA turnpike, and, besides, I worked/drank my way through high school there. Had to visit some old friends. I went to the Aquarium Depot (ex Aquarium Center) in Randallstown, MD (Baltimore), but was tremendously disappointed in their selection compared to under the original owner. Anyway, some new additions:
Corydoras metae
Corydoras davidsandsi
Corydoras axelrodi
Corydoras loxozonus
Corydoras arcuatus
Corydoras paleatus sail fin
Loricaria sp
None of these are realy that rare, but the loxozonus aren't seen very often in numbers. Just goes to show how hard it is to find good kitten fish in Chicago! The first four are all Colombian "skunk corys". They are very similar, but like night and day to the trained eye. Gotta figure out how to take good aquarium pix to share. I've heard of sail fin peppered Corys popping up as sports (rare, choice, chance occurrences) but apparently someone made a stable population of them. Never was able to diagnose the whiptail cats (Loricaria) from a live fish. Gotta wait 'til they're dead to look at the armor on the belly.
Corydoras metae
Corydoras davidsandsi
Corydoras axelrodi
Corydoras loxozonus
Corydoras arcuatus
Corydoras paleatus sail fin
Loricaria sp
None of these are realy that rare, but the loxozonus aren't seen very often in numbers. Just goes to show how hard it is to find good kitten fish in Chicago! The first four are all Colombian "skunk corys". They are very similar, but like night and day to the trained eye. Gotta figure out how to take good aquarium pix to share. I've heard of sail fin peppered Corys popping up as sports (rare, choice, chance occurrences) but apparently someone made a stable population of them. Never was able to diagnose the whiptail cats (Loricaria) from a live fish. Gotta wait 'til they're dead to look at the armor on the belly.