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Hi all, just a little question...

How common is it for cories to spawn sevear days in a row? I've experienced my sterbai, pandas and pymaeus to spawn two days i a row, but my davidsansi are going on and on and on...for the past two weeks it's only been two days where the DIDN'T spawn! ...is this common? Seems like when they started, they couldn't stop again. I'm not doing anything to keep them going.

Best regards,
Kim Mathiasen

I've observed Paleatus spawning for weeks and weeks on end. It's as if once they start, they don't stop. But, they do. From last January through the end of June/beginning of July, these Paleatus were spawning almost continuously. They would stop for a week here or there, almost seeming to be "asleep" for that week, but then start up again. They haven't been spawning since the weather has heated up past 80 degrees F. I think that's the only thing that's stopped them. I catch them every once in a while, but it's not as frantic as it was. Aeneus really seem to dislike the heat. Once it got past 75 degrees F., they seem to shut their spawning off completely. (I don't have central air conditioning.) This is the extent of my experience.

Ok, thank you BronzeFry...I also think they'll stop for a while at some point. Just surpises me that the females can procuce so many eggs. I've got 10 fish, and i think the 3 og them are female, possibly 4.

Best regards,
Kim Mathiasen

The weather in the Boston, Massachusetts area cooled down over the past 48 hours. They're spawning again! It's as if their bellies filled up with eggs overnight.

My barbatus are the same, once they started they never stop egg's every day!!!

Kev

Yes, it's good to know you're doing it right ...but at some point one runs out of room for more fry...

Best regards,
Kim M

I leave the Cories in the tank with the other fish. This is good population control. I was getting overwhelmed with fry, too. Last summer, I had to decide when enough was enough. I ran out of friends who wanted Cories and there aren't any local fish stores who would take them for store credit and I was running out of room. Paleatus are quite common. If I want a brood, I remove some of the eggs on the leaves and move them to a 10 gallon tank. Also, by removing some eggs, I find I don't have to cull the fry as much. Instead of starting with 100 eggs, I'm starting with 15-20 eggs. It's more managable to me. This is just what's best for me. I'm sure there are many, many ways to do this.

Fortunately I have an agreement with a store that mostly sells South American fish. The owner would rather buy Danish-bred fish than wild caught or asian/easter european bred. The survival-rate is better than wild caught and the quality is better than asian and eastern european mostly are. So that's great. Currently I'm breeding C. davidsandsi, panda, pygmaeus and duplicareus. When I get enough of one species I have other species to "change" with. To give and example I only breed cf. gold stripe every 6 months because they lay so many eggs.

Best regards,
Kim M