SWilkins

Well anybody that likes cories I am sure has read about the three peppered cories that I have and their loads of eggs and babies.

Well when it first began they were laying eggs about once a month and sometimes every three weeks. I just checked and the last time they laid eggs was on the 10th of September. I got up for a typing break earlier and they are laying eggs again.

I do nothing extra special for these cories. I feed them like all my others with algea tablets, Ken's catfish pellets, and whatever fish food they find, oh and they kinda like snail food too. I do not feed bloodworms or any of the other live foods to them. I do not do cool water changes to try to get them to spawn. I do not do any of the stuff you are supposed to have to do to get them to spawn.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love having cory babies around they are great fun, cute, and just a blast to watch hatch and grow.

Is this just a quirk with this particular set of cories or is this normal for them? From every thing I have read you have to condition them for spawning and have just the right water temp...and so on and so on.

I probably just jinxed them from ever laying eggs again by posting this but I was just really curious.

sirdarksol

My guess would be that it's a combination of everything you do, in addition to water quality. With a lot of fish, one of the biggest impacts on breeding is the proper water quality (hardness, pH, temperature, trace minerals, low waste products, etc...).

Do you have a local fish store that would buy them? There's a place in MN that is very proud of the fish that it can offer as "locally raised." If you found a similar place near you, you likely could get a credit deal; scoring you what would amount to free food, equipment, and the like. If you're already doing this, then just ignore me.

CHoffman

LOL..All your fish breed Sherry..lol..Your cories are just joining in on the fun!!.

SWilkins

I take that as a compliment...thank you very much. Yes I do regular water changes, use quality foods, lots of love, and yes I talk to my fish.

As far as finding them homes that is not a problem at all. I have been trying to get some to everybody on Fishlore along with mystery snails that I intentionally raise.

I think I might check with my fav LFS and see if they might want some for some equipment, extra pumps and heaters and such as we can never have enough of that stuff just lying around just in case.

I bet the cories saw that I was worried about some of their friends and were trying to take my mind off of it!!!

Tony G.

hurray for babies!

hmmm have you thought about using the extra babies as food for your JD's? i mean dont get me wrong i love corys

Shawnie

you have the "breeding" water thats all sher!!!!!!!!! and be proud of yourself....to have fish breeding, means they are well taken care of and filled with much love and respect..especially the harder ones like cories
and your snails, are amazing!!!!!!! soon I want more so keep that up hahahah

Butterfly

You are also having crazy weather changes. Changes in barometric pressures along with nice clean water will make fish spawn themselves silly.
Corys among some other fish in the wild spawn in the spring right after spring rains start when fresh water rushes in and washes plentiful food into the water.
Sounds like your Corys have "plentiful food and clean water"
I can time my angels spawning by the weather.
Carol

scatty

I have exactly the same thing happening with my bronze corys! In fact I have a batch of eggs here laid just yesterday. And like you, I do nothing special, they just do their thing on their own. It seems I have 3 females and 2 males, and it's always the same female. The boys who chase her trying to fertilise her eggs change colour dramatically - their dark patches fade right away and they get a pink flush all over, particularly on their belly - do your peppered corys do that too? Like you, i think it's cool, but I'm at a loss as to why its happening

sirdarksol

Sorry, I worded my post badly. I didn't mean to belittle the work you put into the aquarium. I was trying to express that the specifics of the water can often be the difference between the breeding success of the tanks of two equally devoted aquarists.
Few animals will breed readily in poor conditions. Nature tries to keep that from happening, since it usually only makes a bad situation worse. Therefore, if your fish (particularly sensitive fish like cories) are breeding, you must be doing quite a bit right.

aquarist48

What a wonderful fish mom you are Swilkins!
Ken

SWilkins

I did not take that as belittling by any means. Like I said I took it as a compliment. I understood exactly what you meant and thank you.

sirdarksol

Good. I still think I worded my post badly, but I'm glad you got the intent.