Why do Sterbai Corydora's cost so much?

[nightowl1350]

Most likely not the cory cats as they don't lay eggs all in the same place and often the eggs are much lower in the tank. It would have to be the upsidedown cats. I would wait till they hit wiggler stage.....you will see tails moving, then remove the eggs to a 5 or 10g tank with an airstone. Use a turkey baster to suck up the eggs. DO NOT USE METH BLUE in with other fish. It can be very bad for them, angel fish breeders use it, but on eggs only. I don't know what colour the eggs should be.....sometimes white means not fertile and other types of fish mean they are good
In the meantime.....get a sponge filter and run it in the tank so that when your eggs become free swimmers you can put the filter in with the new fry. The free swimmers should be fed, but I don't have a clue what. Not sure if they will eat bbs
Good luck with your little suprises.

 

[nightowl1350]

You could decapsulate brine shrimp eggs and feed small amounts to them till they accept the pellets. You put some water in a cup, add the shrimp eggs and and airstone. Run this for an hour or so, then add some bleach (about 1/8 of the amount of water you have) and run with the airstone for 5-10 minutes. You will see the eggs turn whitish, then orange. When they are orange they are done. Remove the airstone and let it settle. Pour off most of the liquid and refill. If you use a paper coffee filter the bleach will eat right through it. I do this a few times before I strain with a coffee filter and rinse well. Store them in the fridge in some fresh water and feed as needed. They keep for a week or more.

 

[Inchworm]

Hi FishGyrlFriend

They are indeed corydoras eggs, and I will put this thread in my Favorites list to show to other members, as an excellent example of them.

Have you looked at this thread. where I talk about how I set up a spawning tank for corys?

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showto...l=breeding+tank

I set a tank up using a box filter with filter floss and a little filter media from my main tank, and some gravel and water from there too. It is then a small species tank for the parents to be conditioned in.

After they spawn, I remove them and change the box filter to an airstone to circulate water over the eggs. This is when you can use Methy blue, if you wish. I find that as long as there is strong water circulation over the eggs, it is not necessary.

Methylene blue is used to prevent fungus on the eggs, but since they only take about 4 days to hatch, if the water circulation is good, you will usually have no problem, unless many eggs are not fertilized. This is why it is often recommended to have more males than females at a spawning. If a few eggs do get fungus, leave them alone, because it is unlikely to spread to good eggs in the short time it takes them to hatch.

After I remove the parents, I also remove the gravel and anything else I may have put in there. This will give you a bare bottomed tank to raise the fry. I like to do it this way because it is easy to see the tiny fry, and also easy to keep clean.

You need not worry about the tank being cycled at this stage because you will be doing daily small water changes which helps them grow, removes uneaten food and keeps the bad bacteria under control.

Good luck with your corys. Please let me know how they are doing from time to time.

 

[Inchworm]

Hi catwoman

Your tiny fry are feeding on the microscopic organisms that normally live in healthy, planted tank. While nature will eliminate a few of the weaker ones, the rest will probably thrive since there are no other fish in the tank to eat them.

When they are old enough, they will begin to eat whatever you are feeding the parents. Just be sure that the water is kept very clean and fresh. I usually do daily water changes in a fry tank, but since you have a good sized, cycled, tank that is so lightly stocked, it will not really be necessary to do them that often. Do them more frequently than normal though, since there are fry in there.

BTW, what kind of dwarf corys are they?

 

[Cephas]

Hi. I've been trying to work out what fish I want to keep in my tank later in the nearish future.

Okay, it's thirty-four litres, so seven point five UK gallons and eight point nine US gallons in volume.

At the moment I've got two little female platies in there, taking up around four gallons for the inch-per-gallon rule.

I rather like the look of the panda cories in my local fish shop, and upon research found that they're nice and peaceful and stay small, and apparently have a minimum tank size of five gallons (presumably US gallons).


My tank is decked with fine-grade gravel, a big cave-and-shade-producing piece of driftwood and is planted fairly decently. From what it would seem this would be a near perfect place for a schoal panda cory to live, but I'm worried that the said hunk of driftwood (as attracive as it may be) takes up a great-deal of the floor-space... probably half of it.

So basically, being bottom-dwellers after-all, I was curious as to how much floor-space a small schoal of panda cories would need to live happily, and also how small exactly a small schoal of panda cories could be. They don't appear to be the most active of fish, but it still doesn't seem right to coup them up.

Thanks in advance. If my tank's unsuitable for them I'll just move on to other alternatives. Though I'd hoped for something a little more exotic than just livebearers, but meh.

 

[Fishy411]

i think they could survive in a trio but i urge u to get a different kind of cory bcuz pandas are very delicate and the levels fluctuate a LOT in a 10 gallon

 

[Fishy411]

Most likely not the cory cats as they don't lay eggs all in the same place and often the eggs are much lower in the tank. It would have to be the upsidedown cats. I would wait till they hit wiggler stage.....you will see tails moving, then remove the eggs to a 5 or 10g tank with an airstone. Use a turkey baster to suck up the eggs. DO NOT USE METH BLUE in with other fish. It can be very bad for them, angel fish breeders use it, but on eggs only. I don't know what colour the eggs should be.....sometimes white means not fertile and other types of fish mean they are good
In the meantime.....get a sponge filter and run it in the tank so that when your eggs become free swimmers you can put the filter in with the new fry. The free swimmers should be fed, but I don't have a clue what. Not sure if they will eat bbs
Good luck with your little suprises.

i dont know anyone who has successfully bred USD's

 

[Fishy411]

just got some cories yesterday and already one of the big male greens has started following around one of the albino's. Anything i can do to encourage them to spawn.

 

[Cephas]

Okay, thanks. I'll keep that in mind.

Any suggestions as to alternatives to the panda?

 

[Barday]

I've heard plenty of people reccomend, that when you do a water change, add cooler water to the tank. Thish should "get them in the mood"

 

[Fishy411]

go to planetcatfish.com. They have plenty of cories listed. I think c. burgess is one of the closest looking to a panda cory. There are a lot of panda cory look- alikes.

 

[FishGyrlFriend]

Most likely not the cory cats as they don't lay eggs all in the same place and often the eggs are much lower in the tank. It would have to be the upsidedown cats. I would wait till they hit wiggler stage.....you will see tails moving, then remove the eggs to a 5 or 10g tank with an airstone. Use a turkey baster to suck up the eggs. DO NOT USE METH BLUE in with other fish. It can be very bad for them, angel fish breeders use it, but on eggs only. I don't know what colour the eggs should be.....sometimes white means not fertile and other types of fish mean they are good
In the meantime.....get a sponge filter and run it in the tank so that when your eggs become free swimmers you can put the filter in with the new fry. The free swimmers should be fed, but I don't have a clue what. Not sure if they will eat bbs
Good luck with your little suprises.

i dont know anyone who has successfully bred USD's

yeah the usd's are not known as being able to be bred in captivity

 

[Tolak]

Check out this link. They get pretty involved with simulating the breeding conditions found in nature. http/www.aquarticles.com/articles/breedi...%20seasons.html

Tolak

 

[DMan99]

I have seen corydoras alolfoi at my LFS priced at 2.39. IME, that is fairly cheap for this type. Corydoras sterbai are also commonly available, normally priced at 3.49.

 

[LoachLover]

A water change seems to get their little hearts going