{"id":208,"date":"2006-04-22T22:36:15","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T22:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2006\/04\/introducing-spot\/"},"modified":"2006-04-22T22:36:15","modified_gmt":"2006-04-22T22:36:15","slug":"introducing-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2006\/04\/22\/introducing-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing&#8230; Spot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It can be quite hard to tell the three Corys apart. For starters, they\u2019re all about the same size, each measuring 5 cm from head to tail fin. There are no discernable differences in the markings on their bodies either. However, while observing the habits of the three Corys just now, Ling discovered there are still subtle differences in their physical characteristics. So, over the next few days, I\u2019ll be introducing each one of them. Each name is indicative of their distinctive characteristic, and Ling came up with all three names.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the first: Spot!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image75\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/2006-Aquarium-PICT1531-corys-spot-small.jpg\" alt=\"2006-Aquarium-PICT1531-corys-spot-small.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Of the three, Spot is the easiest to identify &#8211; his tail fin is spot-<em>less<\/em>. Ling initially wanted to call him Spotless, but that name\u2019s a little clumsy. So we settled for Spot.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be quite hard to tell the three Corys apart. For starters, they\u2019re all about the same size, each measuring 5 cm from head to tail fin. There are no discernable differences in the markings on their bodies either.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2006\/04\/22\/introducing-spot\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Introducing&#8230; Spot!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aquarium-pets","tag-corys","wpcat-5-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}