Have I seen cory courtship...?!!

[Maroonostrich]

Last night I was watching 2 corys that looked like they were playing- species is a mystery to me! They are sort of chocolate-green brown with a small amount of cream marbling on them and very butch- have huge heads!

They are an established couple and were bought as a pair- no one knows if they behaved like this before.. ! They were swimming around with one almost always slightly on top of the other, then every so often getting close together and swimming as if in a ball touching eachother, if they lost eachother in the plants and hardware they dashed about until they met up again and every so often there was much flicking of fins...

What was I seeing, a fight, play, or what?!

 

[Miss Dib Dabs]

My harlequins do similar things before their lights come on in the mornings. As far as I know they've not laid eggs but then the tetras in there are notorious eaters of everything so anything's possible.
SO long as both cories are happy, unstressed and not getting hurt I'd let them be. You never know what you might find one of these days.
Hugs,
P.

 

[SnowyzMom]

I can only say my male coreys are much skinnier, way longer fins and perpetually horny. The females are huge, easily 3 inches and twice as thick in the body as the males. When the males have convinced the females to ante up, they go into the typical corey "T" position where honestly the female ahem er...goes down on the male. (I can't believe I said that!) Afterwards he's right out of it, almost stunned and she goes off about her business again. Finally he returns to his senses and swims off. She must really give good fin! That from all I've seen and read is the corey boing boing behaviour.

Ignore me, I just had some birthday cake at my niece's 1st birthday and I'm on a sugar rush!

 

[fatguppy]

Sounds like courtship to me! We have 6 bronze corys and we thought the same as you - "aw bless 'em, they're playing". Apparently not as some time later we had a load of eggs on the side of the tank and in the plants! )

How naive! )

Even though the other fish will eat the eggs, they are so sticky on the side of the tank that often the other fish can't get at them. We simply scrape the eggs off the side of the tank and let them float through the water. The other fish eat them straight away. We did scrape the first batch off the side and add them to another tank. And believe it or not some survived! Only one matured however and he/she is back in the main tank!

If your female is gravid (ooh err! technical term) then you will be able to tell as they do get remarkably fat!