I generally figure about 5 in the aeneus size/species for a 10 gallon, though I've had more when breeding. Keep in mind that bronze, green and albino cories are often the same c. aeneus species anyway, depending on who is selling them. (Saw them labeled as "blue coricats" a few weeks back....

In almost every community tank I've had with basic cories, I've ended up with fry that lived to adulthood. Granted, never in the hundreds of fish category like when I purposely raised them. That said, when you're starting out, getting past the eggs/wigglers stage is the hard part. Once you get the b...

Both sterbai and most tetras are farm-raised in Florida using ground water. As probably were your angels. They all do fine in a mixed tank at 80-82F, even using tap water. Experience talking, sterbai, cardinal tetras and angels, along with a few silver dollars and a demented ancistrus that prefers t...

apistomaster wrote:Tie off the bags with a rubber band or two and leave no bubbles of air in the bag.

My plecos have freaked out in bags with no air, even though they don't need it. I stopped using Kordon bags for them because of this. Not sure if that's a unique experience to me or others as well.

Jeff

Double or triple bag, foam lined shipping box (labeled and tested by shipper), heat/cold pack as needed, FedEx overnight.

Jeff

My pandas laid eggs reliably in a breeding mop and it was easy to transfer to a hatching tank. I've had pandas in a wide range of water conditions and they always did fine, but they bred best in mid-70F water with a neutral pH and lower hardness (live black worms and a cool water change always trigg...

CaribSea is a great product. That said, I'm cheap and use play sand. I only go about 1/2" deep so a $3, 30# bag lasts about 14 years...

Jeff

Well, I got a deal on nine peppered cories, they're in quarantine for a few weeks and then we'll see how they do in a colony. I've got a lot of cabomba and anacharis from other tanks I'll put in as cover, as well as some driftwood and I'll put together a rubble pile of larger stone gravel to help th...

for the river sand does it matter what color? I use white pool filter sand, but it probably doesn't matter, the fish won't care. White sand usually looks "dirty" quickly so you might want to use a more natural color. I also have a tank on my desk at work with albino aneus on a black sand,...

When I first started breeding cories years ago, the adults didn't bother the eggs but ate all the fry as soon as they hatched. That's when I learned to pull the eggs or adults. I got so I could raise and sell about 150 a month, but cories don't grow that quickly so I had kid's swimming pools all ove...

Are there corys suitable for colony breeding beyond the dwarf varieties( c. pygmaeus, c. hasbrosus, c. hastatus )? I've got a 20L I want to set up as a colony for c. pygmaeus (as soon as I find some), but I have a new 40 breeder (thanks for the sale, Petco) and was thinking of setting it up as a sta...

And PVC or ABS (solvent weld) water-pipes are available in a range of sizes and colours that can be used with a "plug" (or a piece of stone or wood as a plug). I have a friend who makes his out of PVC pipe by cutting a length then flattening one end by heating with a propane torch and ste...

The largest problem with BN's is getting rid of the fry. My LFS don't want them until they're close to two inches, which means I need a vegetable farm to support the grow out period.

Jeff

Big fish eat little fish. If you want most of the little fish to survive, you need to separate them from the big fish. In a tank or in nature, the rules are the same.

Jeff

And as was pointed out in another post, consider the relative size of the fish (compared to adults) - you may find that the ones that are "best" to breed are the ones that are closes to mature size! Echo that, especially since most of the species you list take quite a while to reach breed...

Long fin traits and albino traits do indeed happen in nature, but they are, as you say, subject to higher predation, and thus less likely to reproduce. But they are still natural variations, and still not hybrids. Has anyone actually seen or created a cory hybrid? I'm not sure it has happened, or e...

AndiH wrote:I do fail to understand why anyone would go so far as hormone treatments on fish.

Simple -- Money. Kids like Glo-Fish(tm) and mommies buy them. You'd be surprised what has been injected into various food fish...

Jeff

I do miss the money, but I also sleep much better at night, knowing that I am not a party to creating any "Frankenfish." Except albinism is not a "Frankenfish" by any means. It's merely a color morph. Neither is a long fin variety any kind of a hybrid. Both likely occur naturall...

Thank you for the explanations. They do indeed make sense. I've tried to find somplace that says if C panda and C schultzei are cross fertile, but can find nothing. Anecdotal, but I've kept both together and had spawnings, but no interbreeding. Panda bred panda, schulzei to schulzei. Though I can t...

I manged to get 10 eggs of pandas and they are hatching, what shall I feed them, I dont have microworms, but I have rotifers, live moss, artemia nauply, artificial rotifer powder and microalgae cultures could I use any of these? This reply is a little late, but I fed mine either micro worms or baby...

So, now the real question... How many of you have been thinking about planting zucchini in the garden just to feed your bristle nose fry?

Jeff

The thing that makes be believe they are L279 is that if you look at the picture here (Pic Removed) see the white markings on the tail fin? mine have those exact same markings. I have a number of "common" ancistrus with those markings, including a longfin with about half the tail white. B...

I used to breed cories in a 10 gallon or 20 long, and with Panda cories I used spawning mops. They liked to lay in the mops and the next morning I would pull the mops to a 2.5 gallon tank to hatch. I have also bred other cories with large stones or marbles as the substrate, the eggs would hatch and ...

When the fry leave the cave (or dad kicks them out) they're ready to eat the same thing dad was eating. There's no hurry to pull dad, he won't bother the fry.

Jeff

Ken's Fish, catfish sticks. Flake food for the others, then the catfish sticks right after. Works fine here.

Jeff

Personally, I'd mix L-134 and a variety of bristlenose, it's a decent combination as a cleaning crew and neither grow large enough to be a major issue with discus. I love L-134's, but they do nothing for the algae, and that's where the BN's come in.

Jeff

The fry are being moved to the frysaver as eggs..and these white grains are becoming visible within days. Pictures would help diagnose this. Personally, I leave eggs and fry for dad to care for, dad will clean them well and make sure they hatch. Once they leave the cave, the fry are happy to eat sp...

DJ-don wrote:...my tank is filled with cory fry and i mean alot!!!!

Bigger tanks or more tanks.

I used to grow out cories in a kid's swimming pool, about a foot deep and four feet diameter.

Jeff

And are they one of the ones who need some driftwood in the tank, or not? (L021/pterygoplichthys pardalis I think they are? I could of course be wrong as the petstore tank was unlabeled and I don't often look at plecos, but I think it's the most likely one.) Mine do well on earthworm sticks, zucchi...

My LFS, when they have otos, will have different species all labeled as otocinclus. Not in the same batch, but there seem to be different species from shipment to shipment. They tell me it's what their distributor can get from it's suppliers that determines what is shipped, and the distributor label...