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Hi everyone.

My lfs have some black cories in stock and I've wanted some for a long time. They are labelled as black venezualen cories but I remember reading somewhere recently that many labelled as this are actually shultzi's.

So recently I discovered that certain cories can interbreed. I have panda cories (both male and female) and I have just 3 Smudge-Spots which are all female and one decided to breed with a male panda and now I have hybrids - just the one survivor in my community tank and 3 others that went to live in my Dad's tank.

I want to check before I buy these black cories to add to my community that they can't interbreed with any of my existing stock. I have: Peppered (male and female) Bronze (all male) Panda's (male and female) Melini (male and female) and the Smudge-Spots (all female)

The plan would be to get a group of 5 or 6 of the blacks and hopefully get a mix of male and female but you can never be certain of their sex at a young age.


Hoping someone can help. Many thanks in advance

Hi,

the highest risk should be by far with C. aeneus, but also with the others you cannot be completely sure.
There are also some reported cross-breedings with members of other lineages.

The risk is always higher if the groups are small, i.e. if from the same species there is no partners.

Cheers,

thank you very much. So c. aeneus would be my bronzes so I've got to hope that I get a good mixture with the blacks. I'm going back this morning to have another look at them. I didn't count how many they had when I was there yesterday.

Many thanks once again

Akasha