I have 3 male corydoras panda and bought 6 young trilineatus yesterday. A few hours after adding the new ones to the tank, the panda's started trying to spawn with the trilineatus. So I started wondering whether these two cross breed?
kindest regards,
Louise
Cross breeding cory panda and trilineatus?
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Re: Cross breeding cory panda and trilineatus?
Short answer, it is possible.
Longer answer, possible and probable that the offspring you have, if any, will be hybrids. Hybrids are not something, and this is only my personal opinion, any reputable hobbyist or breeder should produce knowingly. If you have fry that survive, nice: but they should never leave your hands and never be used for breeding.
There is much destruction of native habitat, and even if cory pandas and trilins are currently not endangered, that could change at any time. It would be a sad world if the only captive common animals we had of limited species were hybrids.
Longer answer, possible and probable that the offspring you have, if any, will be hybrids. Hybrids are not something, and this is only my personal opinion, any reputable hobbyist or breeder should produce knowingly. If you have fry that survive, nice: but they should never leave your hands and never be used for breeding.
There is much destruction of native habitat, and even if cory pandas and trilins are currently not endangered, that could change at any time. It would be a sad world if the only captive common animals we had of limited species were hybrids.
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Re: Cross breeding cory panda and trilineatus?
are you sure ??? Are those genetically not too different???Taratron wrote:Short answer, it is possible.
Longer answer, possible and probable that the offspring you have, if any, will be hybrids. Hybrids are not something, and this is only my personal opinion, any reputable hobbyist or breeder should produce knowingly. If you have fry that survive, nice: but they should never leave your hands and never be used for breeding.
There is much destruction of native habitat, and even if cory pandas and trilins are currently not endangered, that could change at any time. It would be a sad world if the only captive common animals we had of limited species were hybrids.
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Re: Cross breeding cory panda and trilineatus?
Hi,
no, this is absolutely sure.
C. panda is a species that tends to interbreed more easily than others.
Cross breeding with C. trilineatus (among others) has definitely already happened.
And by the way, these two species are rather close relatives.
Some years back I had those species in the same 400l tank, both groups with ~10 specimen.
Quite frequently the large C. trilineatus females were chased by C. panda males.
Although no hybrids were produced I would recommend to keep C. panda always in a seperate tank.
If there are no panda females the risk is rather high.
Cheers,
no, this is absolutely sure.
C. panda is a species that tends to interbreed more easily than others.
Cross breeding with C. trilineatus (among others) has definitely already happened.
And by the way, these two species are rather close relatives.
Some years back I had those species in the same 400l tank, both groups with ~10 specimen.
Quite frequently the large C. trilineatus females were chased by C. panda males.
Although no hybrids were produced I would recommend to keep C. panda always in a seperate tank.
If there are no panda females the risk is rather high.
Cheers,
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Re: Cross breeding cory panda and trilineatus?
Ok thanks !!!
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Re: Cross breeding cory panda and trilineatus?
I know this reply is somewhat out of date, but I thought I'd add my experience in case someone down the track is interested.
I had a male panda & female triline in a tank by themselves for a time. They were at it like rabbits and spawned constantly. The eggs appeared to be fertile as most didn't immediately turn white & it looked like there were embryos developing in some that I looked at with a magnifying glass but none ever hatched. These 2 have since been put in another tank with more of their kind and the panda has fathered fry with a panda girlfriend so maybe they are only genetically compatible to a point but not close enough to produce live young.
I had a male panda & female triline in a tank by themselves for a time. They were at it like rabbits and spawned constantly. The eggs appeared to be fertile as most didn't immediately turn white & it looked like there were embryos developing in some that I looked at with a magnifying glass but none ever hatched. These 2 have since been put in another tank with more of their kind and the panda has fathered fry with a panda girlfriend so maybe they are only genetically compatible to a point but not close enough to produce live young.