pH with breeding bronze cories
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pH with breeding bronze cories
I have 3 bronze and 3 albino aeneus cory cats. Does pH affect breeding, if I want to set them up to spawn? They've been in hard water all their life....and would bristlenose plecos eat all the cory eggs?
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You can safely bet on any fish trying to eat the egs; Ancistrus among them. They're nicely glued to the glass and the plants so any Loricariid will have an easy meal. The Cory's themselves will try it too; at least the ones that aren't spawning or laying at the time.
And a high pH isn't optimal, although Bronze Cory's are very tolerant. But setting it at least to neutral will help, getting it lowered to 6 or so even more (they don't need a very low pH; 65 - 7,5 will do fine) and will decrease the chance of fungus. (fungus or bacteria grow a lot slower in water with pH lower than 7.)
Be advised that pH is logaritmic, so water that has a pH 6 is 100x (!) more acidic than water with pH 8......so you'd better go slow when messing with the pH.
You can safely bet on any fish trying to eat the egs; Ancistrus among them. They're nicely glued to the glass and the plants so any Loricariid will have an easy meal. The Cory's themselves will try it too; at least the ones that aren't spawning or laying at the time.
And a high pH isn't optimal, although Bronze Cory's are very tolerant. But setting it at least to neutral will help, getting it lowered to 6 or so even more (they don't need a very low pH; 65 - 7,5 will do fine) and will decrease the chance of fungus. (fungus or bacteria grow a lot slower in water with pH lower than 7.)
Be advised that pH is logaritmic, so water that has a pH 6 is 100x (!) more acidic than water with pH 8......so you'd better go slow when messing with the pH.
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