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I've just seen a pic of some extremely beautiful solid black corys with red/orange fins on an online auction site and would love to know more about them, such as scientific name, common name, availability in the hobby. The sale listing only mentioned them as new Venezuelan corys. I have the url to the picture (not the auction itself) but as a newbie here I'm not sure it can be included in this post. If I can post it without danger of appearing as a spammer, somebody let me know. I'm not set up to purchase these fish at the moment, but would love to know more for future reference. Has anyone ever seen or owned corys fitting this description?

Hi!

These are tank raised Corydoras, they are not wild caught!!
You find them once in a while especially on stock list of Czech export companies!!
Cheers
Yann

There is a dark form from Venezuela, which probably formed the base stock for the black ones produced in the Czech republic. The wild forms have more of a dark brown body colour with redish/brown fins, the body shape is slimmer than C. aeneus and although science considers them as a synonym they may eventually prove to be a separate species.

Ian