Identification Issue

[Jeril]

Hey all. The other day I was at the local Petsmart, going to exchange a dead angelfish for a new one, when I noticed an odd looking catfish stuck in with the aenus cories. The person at the fish center was baffled by him and she said that their supplier in Arizonia must have bagged him in with the aenus cories on accident.
Anyway, I bought the little fella 'cause I thought he was cute, but I've been trying to ID him since. I'm pretty sure he's a corydoras type, but of what, I'm not sure. I was surfing around the 'net looking around and I think he's an elegant cory (Corydoras elegans). Attached is a pic of him. (I call him a 'him' because I think he's male though if you understand otherwise, do alert me, eh?)

Well, thanks for your time. ^_^

 

[Jeril]

Whoops, forgot to add the pic. ^^;;

 

[Lotus]

It does look a lot like a C. elegans. I would scoot over to www.planetcatfish.com and look at the cat-e-log. There are lots of pictures of the C. elegans to help you make sure.

 

[clothahump]

Have a look at Nanus as well.

 

[fishdude07]

yes hes definately a cory...probably a close relative to the julii cory...he looks very similar

 

[Jeril]

Thanks Lotus for directing me to that cat-e-log. It was quite helpful. ^_^ I've got it booked now for a good source of future catfish info.
And, clothahump, I looked at the nanus while I was there and whoa, I could barely tell the two species apart 'cept for the top black stripe is a lot wider on most of the elegans and I couldn't tell if that could be the case with the nanus being as they only had one pic of that species...

Sooo, I'm gonna call him a c. elegans. Thanks everyone for helping me out!! ^_^ *dances* Bye for now!!

*Jeril

 

[clothahump]

Definately Elegans, just had confirmation from Ian Fuller.