Mixing orange lasers and leopards?

[yayfish24]

Is it likely to get hybrids if I mix my two species? The lasers have a 20 gallon to themselves except for a small bristlenose plecos and some shrimp. I'd eventually like to breed the lasers but my leopards arnt doing too great in my 75. Do I have to worry about hybrids or will they be OK mixed together?

[yayfish24]

Anyone have some input?

[bekateen]

In my experience, if you keep multiples of mixed sexes of each species together, corys tend to spawn with their own kind instead of with each other. But this is not a hard-and-fast rule.

You might want to read this thread: hybridization b/w elegans group species. In there you'll find a running list of known corydoras hybrids.

Cheers, Eric

[yayfish24]

Thank you for your input. I'm gonna put both species together and see what happens.

[Marine590622]

At the catfish cataclysm this topic was touched on briefly, our speaker indicated he had had no hybridization issues when he mixed short nosed with long nosed species, but had seen some hybridization when he kept short nosed species together or long nosed species together. Admittedly this is anecdotal, but I thought I would share.

[rmc]

That would be me - thanks for remembering! Yes, I don't feel that CW010 (orange lasers) which is an "aeneus type" and C.leopardus which is a "straight snouted" Corydoras will likely hybridize if kept in the same tank. Another important factor is group size. If you have groups of each sp. in a tank that will also lessen the risk of hybridization.