Identifying Corydoras
The Tail Spot Species
Towards the end of 1999 an unseen before species of Corydoras, appeared in several of the aquatic shops that I frequent. This proved to be a new species, which had in fact just been described by Joachim Knaack, in the German Journal 'Aktuel' and had been given the name Corydoras spectabilis (Knaack, 1999). Although the fish was actually described in 1999 the publication issue was dated for 1/2000 but was actually available in December. This gave rise to the fish being nick named 'The Millennium Cory'. The fish comes from the upper Rio Guapore in the area of Vila Bela, Mato Grosso , Brazil .
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Ian Fuller
Born in Birmingham in 1946.
A toolmaker by trade, and self confessed Corydoras nut by admission
I started keeping tropical fish in 1970 in a small 18 inch aquarium, it was not very long before I had two, four foots and two three foots set up in the spare room. Overthe first two or three years I kept and bred many of the popular fish groups. Starting with South American Cichlids, graduating through Barbs, Anabantids and Characins. Although I had kept several species of catfish during this period it wasn't until early in 1973 that I took an active interest in them. From when I bred my first species of Corydoras in 1974 I have been well and truly hooked.
My first fish house took shape in 1977 and was a sectioned off part of my garage, which housed 36 - 18 x 18 x 12 inch tanks. It was then that I started seriously breeding Corydoras a project which still continues to this day in what is now my third fish house.