one bronze cory becomes 2 !!!!!!!!

[mandy-2007]

hi, well my bronze cory has recently moved from two other tanks, the first tank he was in was full of cichlids with an albino and pepperd cory and himslef then they were getting really hurt and injured (close to death) then he was moved into a 105 gallon tank with the other 2 cories for company and tropical fish ( silver dollars, gouramis, guppies, mollies, bristlenoes cats etc) , then all these fish were moved into a 158 gallon tank. I really thought they wern't gonna make it :S

But recently the 158 gallons set up has been established for months now and then i noticed a second bronze cory and no one in the household put a second one in, what could of happened to do this .....

one cory all by himself with one albino cory and a peppered cory then theres another bronze cory ????????????????


How did this happen ..... Any ideas or thoughts or comments about your expirences with these fish will be very helpful ......


Thanks

[Waylander]

Just a thought, but maybe the albino and the bronze cory had babies. Entirely possible since I believe the albino cories found in pet stores are either Bronze Cories (Corydoras aeneus) or Peppered Cories (Corydoras paleatus) anyway, with the Bronze Cory being the more common IME. So if your Albino Cory happens to be Corydoras aeneus and the opposite gender to your Bronze Cory then they could well have had offspring. The offspring would most likely have normal Bronze Cory colouration because albinism is a recessive genetic trait.

Which cory does your Albino Cory resemble more (body shape wise), the Bronze or the Peppered?

[mandy-2007]

more like the bronze it has the same colour shape and is almost the same size

[Rbishop]

Repeat the procedure until you have about 2 dozen for a tank that big! :cool:

[mandy-2007]

lol i wasm't planning on breeding them lol

[wataugachicken]

lol, you don't have to plan on it - but obviously they do anyway! they work themselves up into breeding pretty easily, i guess you had a lucky one that managed to escape into the tank and go unnoticed by the other fish.