Love seeing all these photos of lovely healthy cories, thank you for sharing! Apart from being gorgeous photos in their own right, they help beginners like me learn to identify the difference cory species. While I love seeing the markings and things in the side on shots, and the group shots are sweet too, I can't help smiling at the face on shots like theone below. So cute!
Hmm, this is making me wonder if the pair of bronze cories in my dad's 55gal have spawned before, and I just didn't know it. Apparently he bought three and lost one - this was before I moved back and took after tank maintenance. I think they're fully grown, but one is definitely much bigger and chonkier than the other, and the bigger one sometimes gets that sorta bulge that this one has. I thought something must be wrong the first time I saw it, but it didn't look unwell otherwise and went back to normal after a while. Could they have been spawning and I just had no idea? There are plenty of other fish in the tank that wouldn't hesitate to eat any eggs.
He would go mad if I bought more bronze cories to up his school, but if I saved some eggs and reared the fry, he'd likely be softer about keeping them. Hmmm.... Any ideas/tips? If I could induce them to spawn and add spawning mops, then remove those the next morning to hunt for eggs maybe? I've seen the tips you gave
@mbsqw1d about how to rear fry, but it's getting the eggs with all the other fish in there that concerns me. Unless I could put the pair of cories in a 15 gal as a temporary spawning tank? Too small long term of course, but maybe as a breeding tank it could work?
Just the way you described the gravid cory and seeing the photo, made me wonder if that's what I was seeing.
