Bronze Catfish, Aeneus Catfish
Image gallery: Additional species photographs
Distribution Venezuela and Trinidad in the North ranging to the La Plata river basin in the South.
Description: The Bronze Catfish also is sold in its albino variety. Personally, I could not speak higher of the Corydoras species as an aquarium fish.
Bronze Catfish [Pictures]
Corydoras aeneus
SYN: Callichthys aeneus, Corydoras macrosteus, Hoplosternum aeneum
PD: The body is stocky and deep, with an arched back. Two rows of bony plates make up each side of the fish.
The bronze corydoras (Corydoras aeneus), bronze catfish, lightspot corydoras or wavy catfish is a tropical freshwater fish in the "armored catfish" (Callichthyidae) family.
I recently started a community aquarium and bought two Bronze Catfish as I heard they were good starter fish. Two months later the two Catfish have bred and I now have 11. No regrets though as they are great fish.
Contributed by Wayne Hudson ...
 See also: Catfish, Fish, Corydoras, Aquarium, Corydoras Aeneus
|
