It was now a couple of weeks since I bought the fish and they seem to do very well. The flukes are gone and the fins are growing back. Two individuals have however developed some sort of mucus like growths on the underside of their bodies.
Behaviour wise I cannot see much of a difference between the individuals, all of them seems very calm compared to other Corydoras I have kept. They eat well but there is no feeding frenzy when the food is presented. They don’t seem to react much to movement on the other side of the glass but otherwise behave normally.
Of the seven fish I am quite confident that four are C. loretoensis, there are however three individuals that more or less stand out.
Fish#6, that Steve said could be a C096:
Fish#3 that was in quite a state two weeks back, it seems to be recovering well:
Fish#1, easily the largest of them all and one of the two with some sort of growth/mucus/fungi(?)
I’m also including a photo of a loretoensis with the same type of mucus even though this probably deserves a new thread:
I feel like all of the three above potentially could be C096, there is a more or less a hint of a dark shoulder marking on all, even though I can only see it on one side of fish#1. All of the above have the dark eye markings. They also seem somewhat bulkier then the rest and they seem to lack, or have less spots in the face and forehead region. Lastly the above three have more of a creamy base colour compared to the whitish almost silver coloured rest as well as completely circular eyes.
I would very much appreciate comments on this as I’m merely speculating and not sure if I see things because I want to see them (shoulder blotch/creamy colour).
Perhaps they need even more time to gain colour?
Melander