Cory breeding question

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bluepony

Novice Fish Girl
Dec 10, 2004
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First off...I am new to fish keeping. I have two cory catfish...one emerald green and one albino. The emerald green is about 4 times bigger than the albino. I noticed today that the albino has a belly full of what appear to be eggs. I have had these two for about a month. Will the albino just have a ton of unfertilized eggs if there is no male albino to spawn? Will she do that often?...produce eggs with no male albino in the tank? If I go get a male will it do the "instant spawn" thing?

Any feedback would be appreciated. The albino is my favorite fish and I'd love it to have babies!
 
My albino produces eggs every so often and one of my males tries to fertilize them but so far I have never seen them produce viable fry.

Also cories can swollow bubbles of air and hold it in their gut. This gives them a swollen belly look and is very normal.
 
Well, I'm betting on the swallowed air issue. I tested the Nitrites and they're a little high. My tank is still cycling. That would explain the gulping of the air. I checked the cory out this morning and the tummy doesn't seem as round. I looked for eggs and found none so I'm betting that is it.

Thank you for your feedback :)
 
Cory's don't do well in cyclign tanks usually. So make sure to do lots of water changes until the nitrites and ammonia stabilize at zero for 24 hours. The more water chanegs the better they will be.
 
Thanks for that too. I've been doing them almost daily. Add a tad of salt and some extra aeration to help avoid Nitrite poisioning.
 
actually, ive been reading that corys and other scaleless fish dont do good in tanks with salt in them, i dont think it would be a good idea to do that if the info ive been reading is right.
 
Cories do well in tanks with 1 tsp per gallon o fsalt added for treatment purposes. They don't do well long term in salted tanks and do absolutely horribly in brackish water tanks. The salt will help the cories survive any nitrite spikes and once the tank settles down with its cycle then the salt can be quickly removed through water changes.
 
ic ic, but how come its good to put salt in a new tank, i thought if you dont need stuff in a tank it shouldnt be put in i.e. throwing in salt for the hell of it isnt good for the fish
 
I thought I explained that salt will help the cories survive nitrite spikes. Nitrite blocks the gills ability to get oxygen. Cl- (either from NaCl or KCl) will help block that effect. That is a lot different then adding salt to a well established tank, just because. This treatment will last as long as the tank shows signs of nitrite above zero.
 
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