Cory breeding

[Smoked]

Ok so I have a male and female. I know for sure because they do the whole spawning routine almost non stop. At first I just let them do it in community tank and no luck. I then tried removing the eggs and still nothing. I even got them a tank just for spawning and they laid all kinds of eggs. I then removed both male and female and let the eggs be. I have all the right water parameters. The breeding tank even has its own filter but still nothing. Is it possible that my male is sterile? Or do I just have that bad of luck?


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[Fishobsessed7]

Just because they laid eggs doesn't mean there is a male. Did they do the "T"?


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[Smoked]

Yes if I was to take a video it would look like any one you could find on the Internet of them breeding. Trust me it's a male and female I know what to look for and they spawn and do the "T" almost every day the female gets so worn out I often find her laying on her side breathing very heavy. So I have to take her out for a bit and as soon as she is back in they go at it again. I'm not sure what the deal is

 

[Fishfur]

Hard to say. Eggs may not hatch if they get fungus on them, or are sterile, and some eggs in a batch might not be viable no matter the parents. It's good to give them a break though, I had a fish I'm pretty sure wore herself out with spawning 'til she died, poor thing. A Daisy rice fish, not a cory, but still, she spawned every day and I think I should have separated them periodically. Just the one pair I had.

I wonder if perhaps things would do better if you had more cories ? You don't say how many you have altogether, but they do prefer to live in groups, so maybe if you got some more, you'd have success ? If you managed to get more females, it would certainly take some of the pressure off this one female.

 

[Fishobsessed7]

Yeah more may be better


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[msweitzer24]

I heard it helps to have a 2:1 male to female ratio

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