Bronze Corydoras

[Sandamarly]

Hi all you catfish lovers. Yesterday i brought 3 baby BC's at my local lfs soo they could keep my lonely female company she did have a boyfriend but he died so i thought ' Poor Baby' and brought her a new female friend and 2 males to keep them company!! I also brought some honey sand for them to dig around in and they litrally bury themselves its soooooooo cute Dont you think they are just the cutest corydoras going!!!

 

[snowyangel]

Yes im a cory addict too. I owned peppers, pygmies(have to be the cutest due to their dwarf size) which I've gottem both species to breed and I once bought these cory looking catfish because they said they were emeralds but turns out they're not even a cory but a hog nosed catfish. Meh looks the same, acts the same. Still adorable in my mind, lol.

 

[Sandamarly]

You have a nice selection of cory's!!

 

[Inchworm]

Hi Sandamarly

I have lots of corys, but the bronze were my first and are still my favorite.

I started changing all my tanks over to sand recently, and they do love it. I wish I knew how much of a difference it would make. If I did, I would surely have done it a lot sooner.

 

[Inchworm]

... I once bought these cory looking catfish because they said they were emeralds but turns out they're not even a cory but a hog nosed catfish. Meh looks the same, acts the same. Still adorable in my mind, lol.

Hi snowyangel

Your hog nosed catfish is a Brochis multiradiatus, which is similar to the more commonly found emerald cory or Brochis splendens. Here is the hog nosed:

http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/calli...ochis/165_f.php

And, here's the splendins:

http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/calli...ochis/114_f.php

Both of them are somewhat larger than corydoras species, but I have never heard of anyone having problems keeping them together.

Has this been your experience too?

 

[snowyangel]

Yes they do grow larger which was what attracted me to them(and why they're robust enough for my dwarf cichlid tank). There was only 3 left in the tank so i decided to add them to my previous 4 cory school. I haven't seen them sold again though. They got along famousily with the cories, but didnt school too much with them. They love swimming in the air stone current and i find they're barbels must be more sensitive to scents because they found food 3x faster than my pepper cories. I especially loved they're beautiful tails, somewhat extended and comes to a point, looks like a crescent moon by the way it curves in. They're colour is so glittery. Really beautiful fish.
They look more similar to your splendins link. Here's my pics of 2 of them, just to be sure:
These two are constantly in love, always dancing with their barbels touching, but it's not the "t" position. They do this dance every night when i turn off the lights

 

[Inchworm]

Hi snowyangel

Yes, your brochis are very attractive fish. The only ones I see at the lfs always look shabby from shipping. I like them a lot.

I sure wish I had room to buy all the fish I would like to!

 

[snowyangel]

You and me both Inch. Actually I have a spare 5 gallon, guess i should fill that up with something . I never thought i would have an empty tank sitting around. Well actually im gonna have spare 20 gallon too. Guess i better start making a fish list up. I'm going shopping!