Got to tell somebody

[fishdudein]

O.K. , Couple years ago was reading magazine article on breeding different varieties of fish (maybe TFH), stated that cory cats will breed like crazy if kept in a species tank and fed well, not just scavenging for scraps.Have kept cories in community tanks for YEARS, one of my faves, never occured to me to try to breed them. Went right out and bought 6 albinos, thought "I'll give this a try", did everything the article said and boom!... breeding commenced! I currently have well over 300 juv. albinos of various ages. Thought "well, this is cool, let's try something else", so I went out and found 6 julii, 6 skunk, 6 panda, and did the same thing for them. This has not been too long ago. Have been feeding brine shrimp, bloodworms,algae wafers,shrimp pellets,flake...good varied diet,fish are really starting to look good, females filling out, but no spawning yet. Then tonight as I was doing my water changes, I noticed a (single) baby panda in with the adults....whoa. The albinos always eat their eggs, I have to remove them to a different tank ,so I figured that if any of the others spawned that I would have to intervene and save their eggs too. I can't believe that I didn't even notice the eggs! And I wonder how many others there were that I unintentionally sucked up when I was doing previous water changes .Have to be more careful(and observant) from now on. Anyway, I'm just proud as can be of my pandas(they're my favorite out of all the corys I have) and I wanted to share my news with all of you!

 

[Perky]

Well done. Are you selling your baby fish?

 

[Cheese Specialist]

Woooo

Congrats!!!

 

[pebbles]

oh , wow , i wish mine would do that , i just love cories... pebbs

 

[suemack]

that is so cool.....congratulations

sue

 

[silver]

That is really neat!!! I wonder if cory's will spawn in a non-species tank?? That would be pretty cute having dozens of baby pandas swimming around



Congrats on the breeding!

Silver

 

[gadazobe]

Wow, congrats - I cories, they're so cute and lovely. What are you going to do with all the fry?

 

[fishdudein]

I am fortunate to have a lfs who will take in most fish that their customers bring them. They are really good about this, esp. if they know you've been in the hobby for a while and have healthy fish. Of course, there has to be a demand for the fish, which means I'm probably going to have these convict cichlids for a long time, but everybody loves corys!!!

 

[Inchworm]

Hi fishdudein

Congratulations on finding a baby panda!

I raise corys too, and find they are easily sold; they are always in demand. So far I've bred bronze, albino, sterbai and panda.

The others seem to lay their eggs in big patches and are easy to spot in a tank, but my pandas spawn in little clusters of 1 to 3 eggs. They like to hide them in places like on the back of the thermometer and they can be a challenge to find. Unfortunately, mine eat their eggs and I haven't had too much success in finding and saving them. Once the eggs are handled their chances of hatching tend to decrease.

The last time I had the pandas in a breeding tank I tried using spawning mops and succeeded in saving a few eggs. Since I have just put them in again I plan to give this a good try. I can take the eggs out and raise the fry with others I have. I'll let you know if this method works.

I'd be especially interested in learning about your skunk corys if they spawn for you. I have 6 of these lovely fish and hope they will be mature enough to breed in just a few months more.