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Hi all,
I'm putting together a breeding report and would like to describe the average "clutch"? or "grouping"? of a cory that has a large number of eggs and deposits them in groups. Thanks

Dean

BTW Fantastic site, very helpful!

Hi Dean,

Welcome to Planetcatfish! To your question, the term clutch is often used in terms of the total number of eggs laid in one spawning. With corys being prone to deposit a few eggs here, a few eggs there, etc., the term clutch would apply to all the eggs in all the clusters, not just the eggs in a singly group.

I think the word group or grouping or cluster would be fine to describe subsets of the whole spawn. That's just my two cents.

Cheers, Eric

Thanks!

Great question and answer too!

A couple of pitfalls to avoid from my experience in editing these reports. The first is that eggs are laid on the glass, plants or whatever. They are not usually. What normally happens is the eggs are laid in the pelvic fin pouch and then placed somewhere by the female. The other one is that eggs are scattered; they're not, they're placed individually or in groups. Egg scattering, in the fish sense, is about eggs being released without regard to where they end up.

HTH,

Jools

I will adjust the wording to placement rather than laying the eggs on plants and glass. Thanks. In the species I bred the male also extensively cleaned the placement area before the female placed the eggs there, it was really cool to watch. I filmed and took photos for four hours while it was going on, documented all kinds of interesting spawning behaviours... top five aquarium experience, likely # two, can't beat the first batch of baby guppies as a kid. Would share, but want to keep it under wraps until I present to the club... that way they have to listen/watch/show up, lol.

Cool. Which species of Cory is it?

Cheers

Jools

C. geryi... fry are 22 days old and have gone through 3 colour phases, so cool!

That’s very cool. We’d be delighted to feature a spawning article on the site here if/when it suits? Drop me a PM if this is of interest.

Cheers

Jools