Cross Breeding Corys?

[Tropical King]

Hi, Just wondering if my Peppered Corys would breed with my Bronze Corys or visa versa.
Because i would be very interested to see what they would turn out like. I have 2
Peppered and 2 Bronze.

Also im not sure how to tell if there male or female so any help on that would be nice.

Cheers

 

[JenCliBee]

Hi, Just wondering if my Peppered Corys would breed with my Bronze Corys or visa versa.
Because i would be very interested to see what they would turn out like. I have 2
Peppered and 2 Bronze.

Also im not sure how to tell if there male or female so any help on that would be nice.

Cheers

I dont think they can but weather or not it can be done it's frowned upon, you shouldnt intentionally cross breed species, can lead to health problems or deformaties for the fry. (think i have that right?)

Female of most if not all cory species are usually bigger than the m,ale, also when looking from above the female tends to have more of a round/fatter belly region.

 

[Curiosity101]

Any cross breeding CAN cause deformities yes, the mish mash of genetics can easily work against one another.

Anyhoo, JenCliBee is correct. Peppered's wont cross-breed with bronze corys naturally.

 

[Tropical King]

Thanks for that guys.
I wasn't intensionally going to cross breed there just in the same tank
and i as just wondering what would happen if they did

Cheers

 

[Inchworm]

Hi Tropical King

Members of the cory keeping community are very strongly opposed to hybridizing these fish. For one reason, the scientists are still in the process of locating and identifying all the valid corydoras species. Adding man made variations to the list would just complicate matters. While most species won't even try, if it does happen, the proper thing to do would be to destroy the eggs before they hatch.

If your corys are mature you can tell the genders apart easily by viewing them from above. The female will be the bigger (especially wider) of the two. This difference is likely to be much more pronounced with the peppered corys (C. paleatus) than the bronze (C. aeneus) ones.