Corydoras bilineatus vs. habrosus egg size??
Posted: 15 Jun 2005, 05:26
Last December I had been trying to breed my bilineatus, to no avail (at least that's what I thought at the time). So, after a few months of attempting to get them going, I moved them out of the breeder tank, and moved my habrosus back in. I had bred the habrosus before, but lost all the fry. I knew that the habrosus would breed like rabbits. Well, within an hour of putting the habrosus in the tank, I find it FILLED with eggs. I could've SWORE that there were no eggs when I placed them in there. Literally hundreds of eggs. I counted. So many, I don't know how I could have POSSIBLY overlooked them. What was odd, though, was that the eggs were significantly smaller than the eggs that the habrosus had laid before. I wondered if being in a 15 gal with yeast-activated co2 had affected their egg size. After removing the eggs, I kept them in there for another week or so, and collected more eggs. The eggs after what I thought was the initial habrosus spawn were the 'normal' habrosus size again.
When the fry got big enough to display colors, I started to think maybe my habrosus were mutts, since the place I got them from on the internet sold pygmaeus also. Some had habrosus markings, some looked like pygmaeus, though with a body shape more like the habrosus than the pygmaeus.
Now, I'm thinking that maybe I had seriously overlooked a bileneatus spawn, since the cories that I thought were displaying pygmaeus colors are significantly larger than the habrosus juvies.
Long story short, can anyone confirm egg size for these 2 cories, that bileneatus eggs would be smaller than habrosus?? My adult bilineatus have darker coloring and are a bit more 'splotchy' than the pictures on the cat-e-log, but the juvies look like the spittin' image of the picts!!
Thanks!!
When the fry got big enough to display colors, I started to think maybe my habrosus were mutts, since the place I got them from on the internet sold pygmaeus also. Some had habrosus markings, some looked like pygmaeus, though with a body shape more like the habrosus than the pygmaeus.
Now, I'm thinking that maybe I had seriously overlooked a bileneatus spawn, since the cories that I thought were displaying pygmaeus colors are significantly larger than the habrosus juvies.
Long story short, can anyone confirm egg size for these 2 cories, that bileneatus eggs would be smaller than habrosus?? My adult bilineatus have darker coloring and are a bit more 'splotchy' than the pictures on the cat-e-log, but the juvies look like the spittin' image of the picts!!
Thanks!!