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I found a contaminant in a shipment of San Juan Corys that appears to be some varety of C. elegans, but differs in a few ways.

Like the Gold-Stripe Bronze Corys, mine has a bright gold stripe running down its back. It's visible even from across the room.

It has a narrow stripe runnning down the middle of the upper scutes, more narrow than other Elegans I've seen. It also has some spots right below where the stripe starts.





Any ideas?

I have come across these as well; mine were mixed in with some napoensis. Apparently, they are an undescribed species and they have not yet been assigned a C number. I was only able to find females, but Ian Fuller has spawned them. Did you get both males and females?

Jeff

No, this was the only one in a shipment of about 20 San Juans. I think it's a female, but I'm not sure.

Do you have a link to pictures of them or info?

Thanks!

I do not know of any links or info on them at all. I do not know what the males look like either. sorry. It is a beautiful species, hopefully we can find out more!

they do have a C.no it's C.152 i think but ian will know. they also have according to ian the smallest eggs of any cory sp that he has spawned

These are starting to appear more frequently in these parts. Image is of a male. - Frank

just been speaking to mr fuller and i stand corrected the gold stipe elegans does'nt have a C.no yet but will have one soon mixed up with another sp

doh

This undescribed species produces the smallest eggs I have ever seen from a Cory. I had a batch of around 100 eggs laid in small clusters of 4 to 8 and when I measured them they were 0.7 mm diameter.

The fry at three week look identical to C. pygmaeus.

Ian