The great cory hunt

After finding a pair of Corydoras habrosus at a local Petsmart, I saw this post at PlanetCatfish - the poster had received a C. habrosus in a group of Otocinclus, presumably in Missouri. That got me thinking - since all the local Petsmarts presumably get their fish from the same source, maybe there were more C. habrosus at other local Petsmarts. So we decided to go on a cory hunt. We visited four of the seven Petsmart stores in the Oklahoma City metro.

We failed to find any more C. habrosus, but it was fun to try.

OKC fish stores

We took a trip to Oklahoma City to check out a couple LFSs (local fish stores). One of them I didn't like much, the other I really liked. And, when I offered, they said that they would be happy to take my Macropodus, and were willing to offer some store credit in exchange. Not sure I want the store credit - I shouldn't be buying fish right now - but they did have some corys I liked. They had some pandas (Corydoras panda), but they had sold the last of them just a little while before we got there. And considering that we got lost going there, if we had been a little quicker, we might have made it there in time, had we not gotten lost.

If we can get rid of the Macropodus, I'd really like to try to breed either the pandas or the Cw008s.

Reliability

One thing is obvious from these posts. While there are some good people there, overall I'm not sure that the pet store really knows what's what with respect to fish. Of course, it's a big corporate chain. I need to find some small, local fish stores, even if it means taking a trip up to the city.