I have a shoal of sterbai and a shoal of shwartzi corys

i'd love to breed the little fellas, has anyone bred corys?

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Nandopsis Haitiensis - Parachromis Dovii - Paratheraps bifasciatus (Thank you Curvi!) - Motoro Ray -
Corydoras Sterbai + Schwartzi - Ripsaw Cat (Oxydoras niger) - Xiphophorus helleri (Swordtails) - Pelvicachromis pulcher (Kribensis)- Sturgeon - Koi

so keen he asked twice

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Yep but only Bronze and Albino, was great fun, but i had a set-up with just cories so was easy to get the eggs.

As far as i know anything other than Bronze, Albino and Peppered are more of a challenge to get breeding, the only peeps i have known to breed Sterbai have also happened to use RO water which means they can get the water conditions better suited to the natural habitat of Corydoras (or so i believe), i.e. less hard and lower pH than normal London water

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ah mr fry you suprise me, never knew you were a cory breeder, good man!

were yours kept bare bottom or on sand? where did they lay the eggs on slate?

tell me about tank setup and numbers kept

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Nandopsis Haitiensis - Parachromis Dovii - Paratheraps bifasciatus (Thank you Curvi!) - Motoro Ray -
Corydoras Sterbai + Schwartzi - Ripsaw Cat (Oxydoras niger) - Xiphophorus helleri (Swordtails) - Pelvicachromis pulcher (Kribensis)- Sturgeon - Koi

sand, planted, laid eggs 90% on the glass, but sometimes on broad leaved plants, I gently rolled the eggs off the glass and into a seperate little tank for the eggs to hatch, i had over 100 fry at one point, sold a few, kept a few etc, then eventually sold the breeding group (about 8-9 cory's).

they were in a 48x12x15, lots of plants and sand, thats it

oh, and quite a bit of frozen bloodworm, picked that up as a tip, also.... they are sometimes prompted into breeding by the introduction of cooler water, so my water changes were designed to accommodate this, often there would be a ton of eggs on the glass the next morning after a water change.

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thats fantastic stuff lexxy!

how the hell do the eggs get on the glass? i'm baffled

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Nandopsis Haitiensis - Parachromis Dovii - Paratheraps bifasciatus (Thank you Curvi!) - Motoro Ray -
Corydoras Sterbai + Schwartzi - Ripsaw Cat (Oxydoras niger) - Xiphophorus helleri (Swordtails) - Pelvicachromis pulcher (Kribensis)- Sturgeon - Koi

Well i saw the Cory's in action a few times, the eggs hang off the female, a few at a time (well maybe 10-20), the female is swimming all over the place, at the time, all levels of tank, the male is closely following and fertilising them.

Whenever one female was laying eggs, the whole tank would erupt into activity, i could always tell when there was breeding action beginning.

Then the female lay's them on the glass, they stick straight away, from time beginning to lay on the glass, till time they are laid and she is gone, is only a few seconds if that.

My females scattered the eggs all over the glass in random "bunches" so to speak, there would be like 50 eggs one end, 50 the other end etc!

Sometimes in the morning i would see that some of the eggs have been nibbled and eaten by other cory's, it depends how quickly i got there.

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that sounds fantastic!

im really keen to have a go now

will keep you posted

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Nandopsis Haitiensis - Parachromis Dovii - Paratheraps bifasciatus (Thank you Curvi!) - Motoro Ray -
Corydoras Sterbai + Schwartzi - Ripsaw Cat (Oxydoras niger) - Xiphophorus helleri (Swordtails) - Pelvicachromis pulcher (Kribensis)- Sturgeon - Koi

Goodius Luckius

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I unknowlingly bred albinos and only knew when i found fry in the filter