Hey all, I was looking for little help getting an ID on these guys. The LFS was calling them "red neon cories" but I have found no references anywhere else to that name. The wife wants more, and as we all know, the more you know, the better it gets!!

oops sorry, first pic was to show scale of a pygmy next to a Siamese Algae eater... he was actually sitting about two inches closer to the camera than the SAE, so he looks bigger than he really is! These are the cories




next

yet another...



another for scale

last one, I promise...

dunno much about cory's but there maybe some called orange lasers or somethink like that lol

This post has been edited by JenCliBee: Jul 22 2008, 12:44 AM

I'm pretty sure they are Corydoras sp. (Cw010), also called orange stripe or Peru orange stripe.

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/speci...?species_id=265

"I'm pretty sure they are Corydoras sp. (Cw010), also called orange stripe or Peru orange stripe"

I do believe you nailed it... I must have missed it because I went throught the list myself and didn't see it. Thanks for the help guys!

Ian Fuller and the Catfish Study Group are calling this CW10 the "Gold Laser" now. The CW23 is now called the "Orange Stripe." (It used to be the red stripe.)

To add to the confusion, last I looked, PlanetCatfish is still labeling the CW23 as the red stripe and the CW10 the Orange Laser.



This is in spite of the fact that Ian Is the Corydoras Moderator on both PlanetCatfish and CorydorasWorld, and the CW designation stands for (You Guessed It!) CorydorasWorld and is used by both authoratative sites.

So eventually I expect that the CW10 will be called the Gold Laser and the CW23 will be called the orange stripe.

Get used to it: the world of Cory taxonomy is a universe of tanged fish nets.

This post has been edited by jollysue: Jul 23 2008, 01:43 AM

If you're in the UK, where did you get them?

Here in the States, got them at Wally's... Sorry mate!



Ian Fuller and the Catfish Study Group are calling this CW10 the "Gold Laser" now. The CW23 is now called the "Orange Stripe." (It used to be the red stripe.)

To add to the confusion, last I looked, PlanetCatfish is still labeling the CW23 as the red stripe and the CW10 the Orange Laser.


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Yeah, seemed to be a lot of confusion on these little guys. Even the store didn't seem to know!

Ian stated that the CW009 (Green Laser) and the CW010 ("Gold" Laser) are the true lasers and appear to be different species. I can see that their behavior is different and they do not seem to play or spawn together. On Ian's advice I put them in the same Cory community tank.

I do not have the CW023 ("Orange" Stripe formerly Red Stripe) or CW14. But Ian suspects that they are the same species.

As I said the world of Cory Taxonomy is in complete confusion. Some are waiting for DNA. But now I heard that often that is not working out. What a wonder that man made tools do not fathom the depths of creation.

BTW there are those that also resent the CW designation. It is an attempt by Ian to reduce the confusion! CW stands for CorydorasWorld, which is Ian's copyright.