Breeding Peppers

[shahdi]

a while back my peppers started breeding. i was not ready for this and all died. now i have a seperate 10 gal to raise any fry. i have 8 peppers both male and female. they are in a 20 gal with 2 sterbai corys. do i take the 8 peppers out and put in a seperate tank and remove them when they have laid the eggs, or remove the eggs when they lay them in the 20 gal and put in the 10gal?

thanks

 

[nmonks]

I bred peppered cories entirely by accident last month. I found the easiest thing to be to remove the parents to another tank. I did try removing eggs to a breeding net, but that isn't very easy because you need to let them "harden" a bit or they squish easily. I found my snails certainly ate the eggs overnight, and maybe even the parents (not sure). Hence by the time I did do the egg rolling thing, I'd lost around half of them.

My peppers spawned in a 10 gallon tank. Didn't seem to bother them at all being cooped up in there. More importantly, I was able to out the tank somewhere sunny, and I think sunshine is a spawning trigger.

Cheers,

Neale

a while back my peppers started breeding. i was not ready for this and all died. now i have a seperate 10 gal to raise any fry. i have 8 peppers both male and female. they are in a 20 gal with 2 sterbai corys. do i take the 8 peppers out and put in a seperate tank and remove them when they have laid the eggs, or remove the eggs when they lay them in the 20 gal and put in the 10gal?

 

[shahdi]

so its better to move the fish into the 10g and remove them when they have laid the eggs?

thanks

 

[nmonks]

so its better to move the fish into the 10g and remove them when they have laid the eggs?

Better? Don't know. But it's what I did, and I got a nice batch of baby cories to play with! So it works. Others with more experience might be able to comment about which is the best thing to do.

Cheers,

Neale

 

[Inchworm]

so its better to move the fish into the 10g and remove them when they have laid the eggs?

thanks

Hi shahdi

I usually recommend setting up a breeding tank and removing the adults after they have spawned. This makes it easier to raise the fry in the water where they were spawned and eliminates the need to risk damaging the eggs when they are being moved.

C. paleatus could be an exception to this since they often eat their own eggs. If this seems to be the case with yours, you will have no choice but to remove the eggs, by hand, as soon as possible and hatch them in a separate container.