Breeding Corries

[Inchworm]

I know it sounds terrible, but it works great because it's natural food for them. Remember that corys produce very tiny fry and they live on the bottom, and it will all start to make sense. They are different from livebearers or other egg laying fish whose young swim higher in the water.

You will also be doing daily partial water changes to keep the water fresh, and the gook that settles on the bottom will gradually be removed as you go along.

 

[Nick16]

i take it i dont remove the mulm every day when i do a water change, do i leave it there for a day or two and then replace it with fresh mulm?

 

[Inchworm]

All you have to do is put it in once. If you want to get an idea of how it looks, the next time you rinse out a filter, just leave the bucket out overnight. You will see that the sediment settles and the water clears. The fry will be covered for a while but as soon as they start growing, you will see them becoming active . That's time enough to start feeding them microworms or newly hatched bbs.

 

[Nick16]

awesome, so they will be able to fight their way through a small amount of mulm.

i will then purchase some live microworms or something.

Lastly, thanks so Much for your help Inchworm, its been a massive help.

 

[swordtailsrock]

I use this kind of sponge filter:

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Cory fry are very tiny and they live on the bottom. Even though the adults might not eat the eggs, if they come across the fry while they are looking for food, they will probably eat them.

It would be best to put the adults back into your community tank and forget about the divider. Then you can get the fry off to a good start by rinsing a filter over them and letting them settle into the resulting mulm. Their first food will be the microorganism in it.

Ive heard that corys do not eat fry, but they will eat eggs as soon as they lay them. not sure on it, but I've heard it.

To Nick:

the easiest and probably hardiest AND most common are C.Aeneaus or bronze corys. DO NOT get panda corys if you are breeding them, because they are fragile and are harder to breed.

Here are some instructions on breeding corys.

step 1: feed meaty foods like bloodworm everyday for about a week to condition them.

Step2: prepare a spawn tank, with an airstone and cycled sponge filter. make the water 5 or so degrees colder in this tank than in the one you conditioned your corys in.

step3: add the corys.(best done when it is raining as the change in atmospheric pressure stimulates them to spawn)

step4: turn the filter and airstone up to full blast.(again, to simulate the rainy season of the amazon, where the corys are found)

Step5: watch them spawn, they will lay their eggs usually in the current of the filter or airstone.

Step6: turn the filter and airstone down, but not off.(to keep bacteria and foreign particles from landing on the eggs and killing the fry inside)

there you go! I will answer questions.

 

[millym]

hi did you say in one of your first posts that plants wont grow in sand?? we have sand in our 40L khuli/panda/shrimp & boris betta tank & the plants go mad im constantly pruning, i add root tablets such as flourish every now & again but thats all. we also want to change our 170L big tank from gravel to sand when we upgrade it to a 6fter.

 

[StrontiumDog]

QUOTE (Inchworm @ Apr 13 2009, 06:38 AM)
I use this kind of sponge filter:

http/www.aquariumguys.com/spongefilter1.html

Cory fry are very tiny and they live on the bottom. Even though the adults might not eat the eggs, if they come across the fry while they are looking for food, they will probably eat them.

It would be best to put the adults back into your community tank and forget about the divider. Then you can get the fry off to a good start by rinsing a filter over them and letting them settle into the resulting mulm. Their first food will be the microorganism in it.


Ive heard that corys do not eat fry, but they will eat eggs as soon as they lay them. not sure on it, but I've heard it.

Corys will eat the fry if they find them. This happen to alot of mine that escaped from a breeding trap(holes were to big) into the tank where atleast 4 youg coryies had big enough mouths to eat them, and boy did they have big bellies after stuffing thier faces on the fry.

 

[Nick16]

hi did you say in one of your first posts that plants wont grow in sand?? we have sand in our 40L khuli/panda/shrimp & boris betta tank & the plants go mad im constantly pruning, i add root tablets such as flourish every now & again but thats all. we also want to change our 170L big tank from gravel to sand when we upgrade it to a 6fter.

maybe i phrased it wrong. i have a high tech planted tank and for me, there is no point having another half arsed one with only sand for substrate. i either go 100% or nothing.