i have 2 huge female albino corys (about 8cm big each)
and from what ive read they look full of eggs, nice and fat!
they are currently in a 3ft general community tank. and iam just wondering how i would go about getting them to breed (aside from the obovious and purchasing a male)
If you do a forum search on breeding cories there is a wealth of available information on the topic. I beleive there are at least a couple of very good articles on the site as well.
As an accidental breeder of cories all of my experience comes from changing tank parameters in terms of temperature and water quality, (they only ever spawn after a big water change with water that is a few degrees below the standard tank temp). It may help to do the change with RO water or rain water.
Of course, as you stated getting a male would be a good start if you can determine the sex at purchase. I beleive the ratio of one male to at least two females is good, but don't quote me on that.
At the size of your females it sounds as though with a small amount of research and patience we should be expecting news of albino fry in a couple of months.
i have 2 huge female albino corys (about 8cm big each)
and from what ive read they look full of eggs, nice and fat!
they are currently in a 3ft general community tank. and iam just wondering how i would go about getting them to breed (aside from the obovious and purchasing a male)
thankyou
Hi. I believe you will ind that a ratio of 2 males per female is the more commonly accepted method, but I know people who get "pairs" to spawn. - Frank
While having two or more males for each female might increase the fertility rate, when it comes to C. aeneus (which Miss's albinos might well be) it only takes a pair to do the job.
Here's a picture of a pair of wild caught bronze C. aeneus and the spawn they surprised me with. They produced all these eggs after I did a big water change to remove medicine from their quarantine tank after I had purchased them with a bacterial infection. I didn't try to condition them, but did "treat" them to lots of blackworms while they were recovering.
It might be good to remember that corys do best in larger numbers, so getting more males to increase the size of the group would be a good thing for their overall well being.
I'd say, having understood from Ian Fuller, that having more males will help the males "push" the female, which in turn is part of the spawning process. So it's not so much about fertility as about being able to manage the females "muscle-wise".
Considering that the females in question are rather large, I'd say that multiple males would be a good idea - and I definitely agree that a bigger group is a better group in any cory species.
Inchworm wrote:While having two or more males for each female might increase the fertility rate, when it comes to C. aeneus (which Miss's albinos might well be) it only takes a pair to do the job.
Here's a picture of a pair of wild caught bronze C. aeneus and the spawn they surprised me with. They produced all these eggs after I did a big water change to remove medicine from their quarantine tank after I had purchased them with a bacterial infection. I didn't try to condition them, but did "treat" them to lots of blackworms while they were recovering.
It might be good to remember that corys do best in larger numbers, so getting more males to increase the size of the group would be a good thing for their overall well being.
