phone call to me announced the arrival of Corydoras barbatus to the North East of England. Off I went to the shop to purchase them. When I arrived at the shop there was only about a dozen left. 1decided to take a gamble and select a trio, thinking back they looked fairly healthy and I chose the largest which was a 2" (50mm) fish which I considered to be a female as it was very robust, the other fish were all around 1" (25mm) and very slender and two of these made up the trio. No apparent differences was seen in the pelvic fins and this is why I selected by size and shape. To date I still cannot see any difference in the pelvic fins but the males pattern differs considerably, they have a gold band along the lower part of their sides, I find that only certain Corydoras can be sexed by the pelvic fins. Returning home the trio were put into a 24" 10" 10" (60cm x 25cm x 25cm) tank with some healthy Corydoras aeneus (great care was taken with the water acclimat ...

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