She then swims to her territory and lays the eggs. If another female claims the territory she will eat the eggs of the rival female. These observations were made on Corydoras paleatus 6.4 breeding group. Just moving them to a spawning tank was enough of a trigger to get them to spawn. After they finish if the egg count is high enough I will pull them and put in the cherry shrimp to clean their eggs. This tactic worked with the Corydoras aeneus group I spawned a month earlier. If I only had another tank available I would spawn the Corydoras puncatatus.
Can’t wait to get rid of all of the firemouths. That will clear up 2 tanks.
The baby aeneus were placed with my Chromoaphysemion bitaniatum colony to grow up. They are a month old and some are an inch long. Those are growing very quick.
And as luck would have it they ate all the eggs. I am going to clean the tank and hope having more laying sites will do the trick but all of the females tried to use the same area and they would eat the eggs of the rivals then lay their own over where the rival eggs were.
