12 hours ago when I turned the lights on in the sids tank, I noticed one of the female albino cories was doing the "frantic to spawn" swim with a male close at her side. I have 2 females and 4 males. The sids were also doing their happy loachy dance up and down the glass at one end of the tank. No big deal, this is actually the 3rd time they have spawned in the last month! I am just surprised at the frequency of it right now. Usually the sids are right behind the cories to eat the eggs immediately. I just came home from work and saw stuff stuck to the aquarium glass from across the room and wondered what the heck it was. The cories decided to put all the eggs on the aquarium glass this time instead of behind the filter intake and on the many plants in there. The sids are fast asleep, all 42 of them, at first I saw none of them and thought they all died! Seems strange the sids didn't eat them, so maybe they're just not the type of fish that searches the glass. In addition to that, I let the sids and cories gorge themselves on live white worms last night. I just finished counting the eggs that I could easily see. There are at least 354 eggs, all on the glass! Since there are so many, it seems probable that both females spawned????
My pygmy cories have also been spawning (hope the sids are taking lessons from all this). The pygmy eggs are half the size of the albino (aneus) eggs. Does anyone know for certain whether or not otos will eat those tiny pygmy cory eggs off the glass and plants? I need to know whether or not to ditch the 5 otos in the pygmy cory tank.
My pygmy cories have also been spawning (hope the sids are taking lessons from all this). The pygmy eggs are half the size of the albino (aneus) eggs. Does anyone know for certain whether or not otos will eat those tiny pygmy cory eggs off the glass and plants? I need to know whether or not to ditch the 5 otos in the pygmy cory tank.
Can't wait to see if the pygmies hatch! I am doing a limpy gimpy happy dance for you!
