The default albino in the hobby and one of the cheapest corys on most lists, sold as Albino Cory or Albino Aeneus Cory. Pink-white body, red eyes, none of the bronze sheen. Corys work by barbel and taste rather than by sight, and an albino has no eye pigment to cut glare, so shaded spots suit them. Check the barbels before buying, since stubby or eroded ones point to a rough substrate in the fish's past.
In the wild
An albino line of the bronze cory, fixed in captivity and never found in wild populations. It has been a shop staple long enough that no founding breeder, country or decade shows up in the hobby references. Sellers describe it simply as tank-bred, and it is produced at a scale that keeps it on nearly every shop list.
Good to know
Albinism removes melanin, so the body pattern disappears and the eye reads red because blood vessels show through an unpigmented iris. It is inherited as a recessive trait, so an albino crossed to a normal bronze gives normal-looking fry that carry the gene. Nothing else about the fish changes: it is the same species as the bronze cory, which was recently moved out of Corydoras into Osteogaster.
Did you know
Albino corys and bronze corys often get bought as two different fish and kept as separate groups. They are the same species: they shoal together, and they will interbreed.
Weekly picks
Tank mates
Albino cory is a peaceful, shoaling species that keeps to the bottom. These picks share a community profile with it, are safe together in both directions, and overlap on water type, temperature and pH.
2.6 in (6.5 cm)21 gal (80 L)72–79°F (22–26°C)
2.4 in (6 cm)17 gal (65 L)68–73°F (20–23°C)
2.4 in (6 cm)20 gal (75 L)72–79°F (22–26°C)
2.4 in (6 cm)20 gal (75 L)68–79°F (20–26°C)
2 in (5 cm)16 gal (60 L)72–79°F (22–26°C)
1.6 in (4 cm)15 gal (55 L)75–82°F (24–28°C)