What's the record for consecutive days spawning in your corys?
Posted: 22 Aug 2017, 19:05
Hi All,
On July 14th, my Corydoras venezuelanus spawned for the first time, giving me about 160 eggs. I was out of town from the 17th - 19th of July, but when I returned on the 19th, there was a fresh batch of eggs that day. Every day since then (as best I can recall to the earliest days, but definitely in all of late July and all of August), they spawned again and again. I counted 33 consecutive days of egg-laying in this group of 11 fish in a 10 gallon tank. Yesterday, on the day of the solar eclipse, they took a day off - not because it was dark (they have a light on their tank), so their run stopped at 33 days. But today, what would have been day 35, they're back at it.
Almost every day, they don't start spawning until about 9-10 AM (a few hours after lights on), and they are usually done by 12noon or 1 PM.
One thing that was odd about the last few days was this - they did a normal (big) spawn on the morning of day 33, but then they did another spawn late that afternoon. Perhaps that second spawn on day 33 explains why they didn't spawn on day 34? Just a possibility.
Cheers, Eric
On July 14th, my Corydoras venezuelanus spawned for the first time, giving me about 160 eggs. I was out of town from the 17th - 19th of July, but when I returned on the 19th, there was a fresh batch of eggs that day. Every day since then (as best I can recall to the earliest days, but definitely in all of late July and all of August), they spawned again and again. I counted 33 consecutive days of egg-laying in this group of 11 fish in a 10 gallon tank. Yesterday, on the day of the solar eclipse, they took a day off - not because it was dark (they have a light on their tank), so their run stopped at 33 days. But today, what would have been day 35, they're back at it.
Almost every day, they don't start spawning until about 9-10 AM (a few hours after lights on), and they are usually done by 12noon or 1 PM.
One thing that was odd about the last few days was this - they did a normal (big) spawn on the morning of day 33, but then they did another spawn late that afternoon. Perhaps that second spawn on day 33 explains why they didn't spawn on day 34? Just a possibility.
Cheers, Eric
