I love these little guys; they're so much fun to watch. Mine loves playing in the bubbler. ETA: I have 1 that just snuffles around all day & the other just plays in the bubbler.
They're corydoras eques, this is a wild colour, a natural colour--not a man made creation like the orange Venezuelanus. While orange Venezuelanus is beautiful too, it's a farmed mutation of the corydoras Venezuelanus, a different species than corydoras eques.
@@fab-freshaquaponicbiospher6335 given the right parameters (ie don't keep them in GH over 268ppm, pH over 8, and don't keep them too hot or cold) and give them what most cories require (sand, clean substrate, low nitrate, etc) they're fairly easy to keep, like most other corydoras. Not easy to breed however. Pandas are overbred and unfortunately are not as hardy anymore, you'd be more likely to encounter issues with panda imo.
@@casscats3754 thanks for info.. Have you bred any corys? I heard all of these are tough to breed.. Given their hefty price tags.. I'm thinking of getting a pair and breeding them instead of buying a pack..
@@fab-freshaquaponicbiospher6335 this species I wouldn't bank on breeding them for more. Corydoras eques is notoriously difficult to trigger to spawn, often requiring a dry season and rain season method along with utilization of RO water. Other species can be really easy to breed. If you set up a tank with just corydoras pygmaeus, you'd likely have fry show up on their own as pygmaeus doesn't tend to eat their own eggs or young compared to other species. Aeneus, schultzei, and paleatus are all fairly easy to breed and raise as well. I've spawned corydoras trilineatus, paleatus, schultzei, pygmaeus, sterbai, weitzmani, and recently either splendens or eques (shared tank, did not witness who placed the eggs of them). Aside from cories, I've also bred hoplosternum punctatum, emperor tetras, praecox rainbowfish, bristlenose pleco, Madagascar rainbowfish, skirt tetras, cherry barbs, sparkling gourami, kubotai rasboras, harlequin rasboras, black neon tetras, and of course the common live bearers but those breed on their own. I'd say, corydoras are harder than raising live bearer fry and harder than raising bristlenose pleco fry, but easier than tetras, rainbows, etc. They hatch larger so aren't as difficult to feed in the early days. I've got a video somewhere on some fry stuff... will take a look for you in a moment.
@@fab-freshaquaponicbiospher6335 I've had these guys upgraded to a larger tank and moved some brochis splendens and corydoras loxozonus in with them, I had a mystery spawning that was either the brochis or the eques last month, but nothing viable came of it unfortunately. Wishful thinking was the eques but I'll never know. They were suspiciously skinner the day after I found the eggs lol
No, these are a different species, corydoras eques. And these are natural colouration as found in the wild unlike the man-made colour variation of "orange" Venezuelanus
Really I have some favs but I never knew how these looked. By the way I'm 65 so I have to get cracking to enjoy as much as I can. I really like the little black diamond pygmies but I had a big problem sev6 years ago and thankfully that has been resolved. I haven't seen them for awhile but put them on a wish list with a supplier. These in your video are awesome. I think most people like us appreciate nature but we all can't have a zoo!
@@robertbaker3174 eques are worth keeping, absolutely beautiful and outgoing cories. Larger too. Their only real downside is their price tag. But, if price isn't a problem for a group of them, I highly recommend them.
Mine have a blue shine, and the tank lighting does enhance the blue shine. I've seen very faded eques, and then overly dark eques when kept on black substrate. On black substrate they lose the blue shine. That said, mine have always had good colour, but I do touch up contrast in videos. If colour enhanced, my lemon tetras in the video would not be plain grey 😂
@@casscats3754 I personally have never seen a lemon tetra that was anywhere close to yellow. their bodies are basically transparent, so there would be nothing to enhance.
@Brensters63 Lemons get more yellow as they get older. This particular video is a couple years old, the tetras then were only around a year old and were grey toned until they turned about 2.5 years old. This is a more recent video of these fish, taken this January. The tetras are now about 3 years old or so. The cories I've had now for about 4 years. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-j30-CzabFZI.htmlsi=EUqBkAV4hBCPDh0Q But at that point in time, they were very grey fish.
@@jelllymii I usually drop it in right away, but I'll presoak to feed the other fish. Presoaking it won't let it stick to the glass anymore, so it doesn't work for the cories that way. My goldfish I presoak it though, otherwise they'll rip it off the glass anyways
@@darksitter22 good food, feeling secure in their new tank (good shelter), and good water parameters for them will help, also try to keep a neutral colour sand for them. Black will darken them, but white will fade them out as well.
@@mannyaraujo1 oh I know. Angelfins had them last year. I know aquarists across Canada gets them, but expensive shipping for us here in Ontario. Shrimp fever has some in stock right now though, last I saw.
Tubifex freeze dried cube. They get this as a once a month treat. They love them but freeze dried isn't good all the time. Would love to try blackworm cubes instead though, theyre better for them.
