THANK YOU, I recently purchased 12, salt, and pepper corys....I love them....! Your videos, gave me all the advice, to breed them..... I am a 70 yr. Old retired zoo keeper.....recently got into aquariums.....THANKS AGAIN.....ALL THE VERY BEST. From The Adirondack Mtns, upstate, NY.....!
When you started talking about your reef tank it made me remember why I left the hobby for so long. I have had a tank of one type or another for most of my life. When I was 25 I picked up a second job at a fantastic shop called Tideline Aquatics in Charleston SC that was over 30 years ago. It is still up and running with the best owner and staff that I have seen. I later moved to Ohio and picked up a job in a high end aquatic shop there and set up my first reef tank. It was just a 75 gallon but being able to cherry pick along with a weekly small additions it turned into an absolute piece art. It was my love and the envey of all that saw it. Unfortunately there was a very nasty female involved that thought the best was to hurt me was to come over one morning in July and turn on my medal halides that I had on timer for 2 hours each day and shut off the ac and chiller and left. She was around for the whole build and knew exactly what she was doing. What I came home to that night broke me and I never had any desire to set up or keep fish on any level for 20 years or so after. I still worked in the business but had no desire to keep anything at home. Then about two years ago I found a 50 gal Oceanic reef ready cube at a Goodwill store for 29 bucks and bought it if for no other reason but to sell it on Craig's list. Thankfully I ended up plumbing it up and got it running instead. I now have 10 tanks up and running. All fresh water and I am even building tanks as well. I lucked out and picked up some free sheets of glass along with plywood and built a 90 gal Tanganyikin tank along with a 20 gallon cube that I am spawning barbs in as I write this. Sorry for the book but also I wanted you to know how much i enjoy your uploads and to say thanks for sharing .
Beautiful footage! I've not seen anything as beautifully filmed & well explained as these series of breeding videos - and this one tops them all! Well done, Mr Aquatics! X
This has to be the best video of breeding and spawning behaviour ever! Worthy of one of David Attenborough's films - and from almost a single take!! Thanks Mark!
You a very talented guy Mark , and this video will be very useful . I have had to break all my tanks down (4) as we are waiting to move but in our new home I will be having a bedroom just for the fish 😊 and I had only been thinking today that i would like to have a bash at breeding Corydoras .Thank you for sharing .
You have great and very informative content. Just a note albino corydoras. Usually are bronze. Also peppered, sterbi, or gold lasers. Yes the latter two are rare and the gold laser is a possible related to the bronze. Your love and knowledge of aquatics shines from the content.
Love your channel. Saw my wild caught goldstriped had a bump under her belly this morning and then Saw The breeding action. Taught they where to small to breed but now im setting up 2 small tanks for the group so i can get some f1
Absolutely amazing video mate 😀 can’t wait for the frag tank videos mate by the way also borrowed your idea of the vinyl wrap and used black vinyl wrap on the bottom and back on my new frag tank thanks for the Idea mate
Great videos bud, really enjoy them. See you are living near Cardiff nowadays, I live over in mallorca but like to visit friends over ponty way at least once a year. Keep up the good work bud
Thanks for sharing all your breeding video's, really makes me want to try my hand at more focused breeding! I've gotten at least 4 baby panda cories out of my last attempt.
You're commenting like you're commenting football match, cant wait my corrydoras to see in the same situation but most likely your words will ring in my ears at that moment. ty for the video 🖖
Proud to say you are my 1st bell notification congratulations watched the neons cardinal and and few others I tried the neons and failed the Corydoras I was told and I researched it wasn’t possible in captivity but that was about 10 years ago maybe more
Hi there Mark, Thank you for such an informative video! I am relatively new to this hobby. I kept tropicals 40 years ago, but things have changed and knowledge is so freely available! I have successfully bred bronze, peppered and I now have 3 6 week old baby pandas! I suppose that makes me more successful than London Zoo! I am trying to get the right community tank environment to get my Schwarst's "at it" and I think I am on the right track. Keep up the good work. PS...I don't really care what she does with the Milt! I personally think she takes it into her mouth and then ejects it through her Gills and onto the basket of Eggs. I have a video which I think supports this view.
Hey Mark, I had been trying for a little while to breed panda corys and I have very little success. I feed them live bbs, frozen bloodworms and frozen brine shrimps. I do get mating behaviors and they spawn but I get only a few eggs each time...I got 5 total over the course of a month and been trying every week. I got 13 in a 30 gallon breeder tank. What boggling my mind quite a bit, I had kept 4 of these fellas in a community tank and they spawn ,accidently, 3-4 times and give 8-12 eggs each clutch. I wasn't doing anything special. Now that they have their own setup with 8 more friends and I'm doing the best that I can, I get few eggs.
great video, I've had different corys breed in my tank but it was always when I wasn't around to see it, eventually all the eggs were eaten by the other fish
Hi Mark, I thought I had noticed it in PART 1 of this breeding series, but not all Corydoras in the breeding tank are Aeneus. The one in the back, not participating in the breeding, seems a different species. That one's got a dark stripe over the back.
You use so much live food, I would love to see more videos on live foods. I know you have some on green water and bbs but I would love to see more on live blood worms and others that you feed! Great video! I love watching them! Thank you!
Just watching your video on corries and I was very lucky to not know that they had bread in my community tank and I was looking at my tank one day and twelve corries swam past mum and dad and ten babies in I Didnt know
Hi mate. I find small groups of 4 to 6 work well. As I mostly breed fish these days for tutorials for up an coming aquarists. Larger groups will still breed ok tho.
Mark your videos have been so inspiring. Because of you I have bred, white clouds, cory's, cardinal tetras and plecos. I hope to keep learning from you. Can you please tackle breeding otocinculos catfish? Everyone says how difficult it is but I have a feeling you can champion this challenge! thank you!!
Mark, Great footage! These are my dogs;) And no! So many TH-cam fish videos are just fake to even dangerous for the little creatures. (You hardly see t position, some eggs, but -oh wonder - 30 young Corys. Local pet shop must have been happy). I was looking for serious information and you are one of the few very serious, passionate and sensitive TH-camr.
Hey Mark I love watching your videos , I have pairs of paleatus , bronze and sterbas , and the females are blotted up but I am not seeing any breeding action, hope you can help me out
So nice to see, you have mad skills. I'm too worried to use our rain water since we live in a town which is built around a petrochemical coal plant. Anyways, will you be taking out the parents from the tank?
Yes the parents have been removed to be safe. They are not mad egg eaters if kept well fed. But with me making videos for you guys I need to be safe. 😀👍
Hey Mark great video, my peppered corydoras have spawned and I've found a few eggs in the tank would one of those mesh breeding nets be able to hold the eggs or would the eggs and fry fall through?
Another awesome show. I would love to get my Cory's to breed, CW010 but they haven't yet. I have had them for 6 months. In the future I'll be working closer with them. #FishTube #Corydora
Hi Mark, I've had a school of 10 sterbai for a couple years now in my community tank. With all this free time now I really want to breed them. Would it be fine if I separated a pair into a 5g on their own to try and condition them to breed?
I have a 29 gallon community tank. My growout will be a 10 gallon, should remove eggs from the 29 or put adults into the 10 then adults after spawning?
Hey mate quick one would this work with black Cory’s and bandit Cory’s ? Awesome video too mate I’ve used your videos to raise my zebra danios a few months ago ended up with 130 odd fry, thanks mate and keep the videos coming 👍
I recently got back into having an aquarium and cory cats were my first fish pick.They are currently hanging out in a community tank loving life with all the plants and their nice group size of 8(Got a 55 gallon so plenty of space!). I've also been wanting to breed these since they seem to be harder to find in my area and I want to try something new. I don't plan on it soon as I want to buy or make a smaller aquarium for that reason but don't have the time yet. Now I was wondering this since the first part, what does it mean when corydoras are swimming after each other's gills/mouth? I have two adults that have been doing this for ages and I have no clue why
My cory’s have been showing this behaviour for a while except without the T position or the female carrying eggs in my main tank. I’m guessing that the drop in temp is the trigger rather than the maturity of the fish? I never planned to breed corys but might give it a go, I have small breeder tank (12L), sponge filter cycling in main tank and heater. Do I need sand in the breeder? (I can borrow from my main tank if needed) does this sound a bought right? Will be starting Ensuflora today😁 Sorry for the long reply and once again thanks for sharing the knowledge 👍 much appreciated🙏✌️
Hi. That drop in temperature is the spawning trigger. You don't need any substrate in the grow out tank just a sponge filter and a heater. The fry will find the food easier with a bare bottom. 😀👍
@@MARKSAQUATICS *Update* Whilst not being ready to breed these guys yet, they thought other wise. While I was busy in the garden they were busy in my main tank and deposited around 50 eggs on glass and under Amazon sword leaves, this is there first spawn and I have been doing 50% water changer over the past couple of weeks. Needless to say I had no infusoria culture ready or walter worms, I ended up putting a foot long piece of bog wood full of nukes and crannies with established java fern and anubias in the breeder tank with siphoned tank water, extra siphon over all my plants to hopefully suck up as much infusoria as poss. I believe it was enough as the fry have hatched and have now started feeding on Walter worms, I think I have counted up to 10 fry but as the bog wood is full of holes etc there could be more under it, and they are now becoming free swimming in the water column zipping around having a good ole time👍. I think I need to get the bogwood out to fit the sponge filter (Its a pretty big lump of wood🤣 around a foot long) but am scared to in case there are fry hidden in there. I have the same one as you used with the double sponge (this has been running in the main tank for around a month). Or am I best to leave everything as is and just try to angle the sponges as best I can? I will update my channel (for family/friends) with a quick video so you can see what I have done. Many thanks again Mark YOU are the STAR👍
I actually woke up to panda cory eggs in my main aquarium this morning. It was completely unexpected. Once they start breeding how often does it happen?
@@MARKSAQUATICS thanks Mark. I was so surprised to see eggs because I only have 2 of them. I only have chain pet stores where I live and just happened to be in there one day and those two pandas had came in by mistake and they looked so pitiful that I brought them home because I was afraid that if they stayed in that store that they wouldn't make it. My plan was to order more online once the weather got warmer because I know that they need to be in groups. I've had them a couple months now and have really fattened them up. I'm assuming that since they're breeding that's a pretty good sign that even though theirs just two of them they're relatively happy and obviously healthy in my tank. I've never raised fry before so I'm definitely going to have to start researching lol. Thank you for all the knowledge you share it's so appreciated.
Hi Mandy . If you can remove the adults once they have spawned move them out. If you can't keep them well fed. As for the eggs going bad, if they are healthy fertilised eggs and your tank water is good they will be fine.
She lays more than 5-6 eggs. They lay 20-30 eggs at a time. Anywhere from 100-400 eggs per session is normal, with an average of around 150. If you find less it's because they've eaten some. Pretty much every species of cory has a tendency to eat it's own eggs immediately after laying them; I've literally had a female eat her previous deposit while she was laying the next one. Some species do lay less but the bronze cory in particular (which is this species) is one of the species that lays lots of eggs at a time. Having said that, if they are breeding for the first time then they will produce very few or no fertile eggs, especially if they aren't fully grown. If they are already fully grown then they have a better chance of producing fertile eggs. If they have laid a lot of infertile eggs then I would imagine that they would be more eager to eat those than the fertile ones; cories are scavengers and tend to prefer eating things that aren't alive. If they sense that the eggs are dead then I would guess that they would be more drawn to them than if there were a lot of fertile eggs. If these haven't bred before then they would probably have produced a lot of infertile eggs, so when you found the spared eggs, there would appear to be a lot less than was originally laid.
I once found a baby panda cory in a tank I was CYCLING in which I'd put plants from my tank with pandas. Lost the little guy, unfortunately, because I did not expect to see a baby cory and he was so tiny I couldn't catch him. :( Maybe one day I'll follow your advice and try breeding more intentionally!
Hi Mark good and bad news.I did say about my corys eater her eggs.I put 10 of my ember tetra into breeding tank 1 died of stress.did water change the seen little cory about 1/2 inch doing well.I now have 8 pepperd corys 7 harlerquin rasbora 1 rose better .But id did burn out my 100 heater and burn carpet eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.good job im not married.Keep up the good work live the videos Mark.Welsh Jeff
@@mladenpasin2857 The albinos may not have necessarily come from the albino parent. It's a recessive trait to the regular colouration. Since they are mixed so often, regulars and albinos readily breed with each other, and as a result the recessive albino genes end up being carried in regular offspring. Occasionally when two regulars who both have recessive albino genes breed, they can spontaneously produce albinos. That's how the first albino was ever created after all ;). Having said that, an albino being involved makes the chances of an albino offspring much greater, so it probably was involved. Obviously if an albino breeds with a regular that has recessive albino genes, the chances that an offspring gets albino genes from both parents and so is albino is much higher. My albinos have laid eggs during a breeding session (the regulars were mating and laying like crazy) but I didn't see any mating between the albinos and the male regulars and the eggs weren't viable anyway which leads me to believe they laid eggs in response to chemicals in the water released by the laying regulars, not necessarily because a male had mated with them. I'm 99% they are all aeneus but I know reproductive methods differ between different species of cory so if they are a different species, it could be that the chemical the bronzes use to signify mating signify egg-laying in this species. Who knows *shrugs*
UPDATE: By complete coincidence, today my cories decided to breed again and I actually saw a bronze male breed with an albino female! Definitely saving the eggs to see what they produce.
UPDATE: the fry are all 4-6 weeks old now, and they are all regulars. The genetics of my tank are going to get very messy once they sexually mature and start breeding
cory cats are amazing, in my top 5 fave fish ,looking forward to my sterbai to get old enough to breed,, and i have white ones ,,i dont normally like albinos but they are so pretty i am glad i got them,,so thank you mark i will be following your advise .x
That cory in the far back at the beginning isn't the same species as the rest. That's why it's distanced itself and not breeding with them. I'm pretty sure the albino is the same species though. Ime the albinos have a harder time breeding than their counterparts.
Thanks for allowing beginners to see the behaviors of the fish. I think those visuals are more helpful than rattling off parameters.
THANK YOU, I recently purchased 12, salt, and pepper corys....I love them....! Your videos, gave me all the advice, to breed them..... I am a 70 yr. Old retired zoo keeper.....recently got into aquariums.....THANKS AGAIN.....ALL THE VERY BEST. From The Adirondack Mtns, upstate, NY.....!
After 30 tears of keeping fish, and corydoras have to be a favourite. Wonderful little fish.
When you started talking about your reef tank it made me remember why I left the hobby for so long. I have had a tank of one type or another for most of my life. When I was 25 I picked up a second job at a fantastic shop called Tideline Aquatics in Charleston SC that was over 30 years ago. It is still up and running with the best owner and staff that I have seen. I later moved to Ohio and picked up a job in a high end aquatic shop there and set up my first reef tank. It was just a 75 gallon but being able to cherry pick along with a weekly small additions it turned into an absolute piece art. It was my love and the envey of all that saw it. Unfortunately there was a very nasty female involved that thought the best was to hurt me was to come over one morning in July and turn on my medal halides that I had on timer for 2 hours each day and shut off the ac and chiller and left. She was around for the whole build and knew exactly what she was doing. What I came home to that night broke me and I never had any desire to set up or keep fish on any level for 20 years or so after. I still worked in the business but had no desire to keep anything at home. Then about two years ago I found a 50 gal Oceanic reef ready cube at a Goodwill store for 29 bucks and bought it if for no other reason but to sell it on Craig's list. Thankfully I ended up plumbing it up and got it running instead. I now have 10 tanks up and running. All fresh water and I am even building tanks as well. I lucked out and picked up some free sheets of glass along with plywood and built a 90 gal Tanganyikin tank along with a 20 gallon cube that I am spawning barbs in as I write this. Sorry for the book but also I wanted you to know how much i enjoy your uploads and to say thanks for sharing .
Thanks for watching. Calmer will catch up on people who hurt animals. Well it sounds like your in good spirits now my friend. Onwards and upwards. 😊👍
I have never seen such a wonderful examples of how to breed fish species before; except for a professional nature show.
Beautiful footage! I've not seen anything as beautifully filmed & well explained as these series of breeding videos - and this one tops them all! Well done, Mr Aquatics! X
This has to be the best video of breeding and spawning behaviour ever! Worthy of one of David Attenborough's films - and from almost a single take!! Thanks Mark!
Thank you for the message. Messages like this mean the world. Thank you.😀👍
Great,corys are so cute fish
And congrats on almost getting 20K subs!! Just a bit more and you're there😎👍
Getting close now.😀👍
You deserve it mark....great video a d info
You a very talented guy Mark , and this video will be very useful . I have had to break all my tanks down (4) as we are waiting to move but in our new home I will be having a bedroom just for the fish 😊 and I had only been thinking today that i would like to have a bash at breeding Corydoras .Thank you for sharing .
A spare bedroom just for fish? That's an amazing idea!
Thank you Gary. Hope you get set up again real soon.
Hi Mark amazing beautiful video absolutely love it. I will definitely try the several degrees colder water change. lots of love to you and yours.
Thanks John. I enjoyed making this one.😀👍
wow....mind blown! great video! Thanks Mark!
Awww I really need some cory's in my tank, love these little guys. Thanks for sharing Mark 😊
You have great and very informative content. Just a note albino corydoras. Usually are bronze. Also peppered, sterbi, or gold lasers. Yes the latter two are rare and the gold laser is a possible related to the bronze. Your love and knowledge of aquatics shines from the content.
Top video mark 👍they are a fantastic little fish, full of character 🙏
Thank you Mark really enjoyed the video and I know what to look out for now 👍👍
Great footage. Thanks Mark. Looking forward to the video in the next few days.
I have bred and raised trilineatus and peppered corydora, it never gets boring 😁 great video mark 👍
I have 8 violetta corydoras arriving this week so thanks for a perfectly timed video! 😁
Love your channel.
Saw my wild caught goldstriped had a bump under her belly this morning and then Saw The breeding action. Taught they where to small to breed but now im setting up 2 small tanks for the group so i can get some f1
Absolutely amazing video mate 😀 can’t wait for the frag tank videos mate by the way also borrowed your idea of the vinyl wrap and used black vinyl wrap on the bottom and back on my new frag tank thanks for the Idea mate
Great videos bud, really enjoy them. See you are living near Cardiff nowadays, I live over in mallorca but like to visit friends over ponty way at least once a year. Keep up the good work bud
Great Mark , looking forward to next video.
Excellent Video!
Thanks for sharing all your breeding video's, really makes me want to try my hand at more focused breeding! I've gotten at least 4 baby panda cories out of my last attempt.
Great video very helpful
Love that commentary ❤️
Mark you are an amazing fish keeper. Thanks for another great video!!!
Thanks for watching Terry.
Another awesome video. Thanks Mark.
You're commenting like you're commenting football match, cant wait my corrydoras to see in the same situation but most likely your words will ring in my ears at that moment. ty for the video 🖖
Awesome 😁👍
Very cool, thanks mark.
Mesmerizing! Thank you Mark!
Proud to say you are my 1st bell notification congratulations watched the neons cardinal and and few others I tried the neons and failed the Corydoras I was told and I researched it wasn’t possible in captivity but that was about 10 years ago maybe more
They breed very easily. Thanks for watching and subscribing. 😀👍
I’m keen to see a yo yo loach breed
Nice one MARK'S 😍 happy viewing from Saudi Arabia
Great footage.
Worked with the Australian special forces in the 80s... We had a blast Good PPL for sure.
Hi there Mark, Thank you for such an informative video! I am relatively new to this hobby. I kept tropicals 40 years ago, but things have changed and knowledge is so freely available! I have successfully bred bronze, peppered and I now have 3 6 week old baby pandas! I suppose that makes me more successful than London Zoo! I am trying to get the right community tank environment to get my Schwarst's "at it" and I think I am on the right track. Keep up the good work. PS...I don't really care what she does with the Milt! I personally think she takes it into her mouth and then ejects it through her Gills and onto the basket of Eggs. I have a video which I think supports this view.
That's my understanding as well!
Hey Mark,
I had been trying for a little while to breed panda corys and I have very little success.
I feed them live bbs, frozen bloodworms and frozen brine shrimps. I do get mating behaviors and they spawn but I get only a few eggs each time...I got 5 total over the course of a month and been trying every week.
I got 13 in a 30 gallon breeder tank.
What boggling my mind quite a bit, I had kept 4 of these fellas in a community tank and they spawn ,accidently, 3-4 times and give 8-12 eggs each clutch. I wasn't doing anything special. Now that they have their own setup with 8 more friends and I'm doing the best that I can, I get few eggs.
Awesome video!!! I'm really excited to see what happens next
great video, I've had different corys breed in my tank but it was always when I wasn't around to see it, eventually all the eggs were eaten by the other fish
Hi Mark, I thought I had noticed it in PART 1 of this breeding series, but not all Corydoras in the breeding tank are Aeneus. The one in the back, not participating in the breeding, seems a different species. That one's got a dark stripe over the back.
You use so much live food, I would love to see more videos on live foods. I know you have some on green water and bbs but I would love to see more on live blood worms and others that you feed! Great video! I love watching them! Thank you!
No one makes it look easier.
Just watching your video on corries and I was very lucky to not know that they had bread in my community tank and I was looking at my tank one day and twelve corries swam past mum and dad and ten babies in I Didnt know
Great footage, some real Natgeo stuff right here.
Hi mark, nice cory 3 part video you made. +/- how many fertile eggs was laid between those 2 females?
About 200 😊👍
@@MARKSAQUATICS wow thanks mark, and i suppose they can do 200 +/- then like twice a month?
Mark, do you find it better to use a smaller group (less than 6) when trying to breed corys, or will a large group (12+) work all the same?
Hi mate. I find small groups of 4 to 6 work well. As I mostly breed fish these days for tutorials for up an coming aquarists. Larger groups will still breed ok tho.
Hi Mark so do you keep the water temp at 19 degrees, did a water change this morning and the pepper coy did the T position a bout 30 mins after
Fascinating stuff!
Wow o wow! Mark do you put anything in there to help fight fungus?
Nothing. The healthy eggs will hatch. In fact they're hatching right now I'm watching and filming 😀👍
Mark your videos have been so inspiring. Because of you I have bred, white clouds, cory's, cardinal tetras and plecos. I hope to keep learning from you. Can you please tackle breeding otocinculos catfish? Everyone says how difficult it is but I have a feeling you can champion this challenge! thank you!!
I'm bringing up some oto,s to breed at some point. 😀👍
Mark, Great footage! These are my dogs;)
And no! So many TH-cam fish videos are just fake to even dangerous for the little creatures. (You hardly see t position, some eggs, but -oh wonder - 30 young Corys. Local pet shop must have been happy). I was looking for serious information and you are one of the few very serious, passionate and sensitive TH-camr.
this was amazing to watch
Hey Mark I love watching your videos , I have pairs of paleatus , bronze and sterbas , and the females are blotted up but I am not seeing any breeding action, hope you can help me out
Try a nice cold water change and add some Indian almond leaves to soften the water
So nice to see, you have mad skills. I'm too worried to use our rain water since we live in a town which is built around a petrochemical coal plant. Anyways, will you be taking out the parents from the tank?
Yes the parents have been removed to be safe. They are not mad egg eaters if kept well fed. But with me making videos for you guys I need to be safe. 😀👍
Hey Mark great video, my peppered corydoras have spawned and I've found a few eggs in the tank would one of those mesh breeding nets be able to hold the eggs or would the eggs and fry fall through?
Yes a fine one will be ok.
Can I use distilled water for the water change if I dont have rain water?
Another awesome show. I would love to get my Cory's to breed, CW010 but they haven't yet. I have had them for 6 months. In the future I'll be working closer with them. #FishTube #Corydora
I like how you sound like a sports commentator 😆
😀👍
What size pleco cave do you have the most success with 👍😀 Also great video you make it look so easy 👍
A two inch opening by six inches long.
would you mind posting a link to the plant holders you are using in this video.
Super awesome Mark
How do you identify males and females and what age do they breed?
They will breed at a year old maybe sooner. Males are smaller than females are the females are more rounded in the belly when in condition.
Hi Mark, I've had a school of 10 sterbai for a couple years now in my community tank. With all this free time now I really want to breed them. Would it be fine if I separated a pair into a 5g on their own to try and condition them to breed?
Great video!!! How long can you store rain water for and do you cover it
You can store it for a couple of weeks.
I have a 29 gallon community tank. My growout will be a 10 gallon, should remove eggs from the 29 or put adults into the 10 then adults after spawning?
Probably best to remove the eggs and leave the parents in their tank.
Does it matter if it's a barebottom or sand tank?
Hey Mark, just wondering, if were to get corydoras to spawn and such but i have common pond snails in the tank, will the snails eat the cory eggs?
You should be fine. The eggs are very tough. 😀👍
@@MARKSAQUATICS Thank you so much!
Cant wait for follow up videos on these guys
Hey mate quick one would this work with black Cory’s and bandit Cory’s ?
Awesome video too mate I’ve used your videos to raise my zebra danios a few months ago ended up with 130 odd fry, thanks mate and keep the videos coming 👍
Hi Josh. Yes they will. Ph may vary depending on where they are located but much the same. It's cold water that gets um going. 😀👍
MARK'S AQUATICS thanks mate
I recently got back into having an aquarium and cory cats were my first fish pick.They are currently hanging out in a community tank loving life with all the plants and their nice group size of 8(Got a 55 gallon so plenty of space!). I've also been wanting to breed these since they seem to be harder to find in my area and I want to try something new. I don't plan on it soon as I want to buy or make a smaller aquarium for that reason but don't have the time yet. Now I was wondering this since the first part, what does it mean when corydoras are swimming after each other's gills/mouth? I have two adults that have been doing this for ages and I have no clue why
How many days tell the fry start eating I just stared breeding albino corys and i have 2 day old fry
24 hours after hatching start feeding live baby brine shrimp or very finely crushed fish flake.😀👍
What tanks are these you use and how many L please.
Do they eat there eggs or must you take them out once they have laid the eggs
Best thing to do is remove the adults from the tank. Or feed them well if you leave them in.
Great
My peppered corys are going through the motions but no eggs, they’ve been at it for 3 nights now what’s happening
My cory’s have been showing this behaviour for a while except without the T position or the female carrying eggs in my main tank. I’m guessing that the drop in temp is the trigger rather than the maturity of the fish?
I never planned to breed corys but might give it a go, I have small breeder tank (12L), sponge filter cycling in main tank and heater. Do I need sand in the breeder? (I can borrow from my main tank if needed) does this sound a bought right? Will be starting Ensuflora today😁
Sorry for the long reply and once again thanks for sharing the knowledge 👍 much appreciated🙏✌️
Hi. That drop in temperature is the spawning trigger. You don't need any substrate in the grow out tank just a sponge filter and a heater. The fry will find the food easier with a bare bottom. 😀👍
MARK'S AQUATICS cheers Mark, looking forward to the next episode👍
@@MARKSAQUATICS *Update* Whilst not being ready to breed these guys yet, they thought other wise. While I was busy in the garden they were busy in my main tank and deposited around 50 eggs on glass and under Amazon sword leaves, this is there first spawn and I have been doing 50% water changer over the past couple of weeks.
Needless to say I had no infusoria culture ready or walter worms, I ended up putting a foot long piece of bog wood full of nukes and crannies with established java fern and anubias in the breeder tank with siphoned tank water, extra siphon over all my plants to hopefully suck up as much infusoria as poss.
I believe it was enough as the fry have hatched and have now started feeding on Walter worms, I think I have counted up to 10 fry but as the bog wood is full of holes etc there could be more under it, and they are now becoming free swimming in the water column zipping around having a good ole time👍.
I think I need to get the bogwood out to fit the sponge filter (Its a pretty big lump of wood🤣 around a foot long) but am scared to in case there are fry hidden in there. I have the same one as you used with the double sponge (this has been running in the main tank for around a month). Or am I best to leave everything as is and just try to angle the sponges as best I can?
I will update my channel (for family/friends) with a quick video so you can see what I have done.
Many thanks again Mark YOU are the STAR👍
I actually woke up to panda cory eggs in my main aquarium this morning. It was completely unexpected. Once they start breeding how often does it happen?
Ones they start breeding they can lay eggs every 2 to 3 weeks.
@@MARKSAQUATICS thanks Mark. I was so surprised to see eggs because I only have 2 of them. I only have chain pet stores where I live and just happened to be in there one day and those two pandas had came in by mistake and they looked so pitiful that I brought them home because I was afraid that if they stayed in that store that they wouldn't make it. My plan was to order more online once the weather got warmer because I know that they need to be in groups. I've had them a couple months now and have really fattened them up. I'm assuming that since they're breeding that's a pretty good sign that even though theirs just two of them they're relatively happy and obviously healthy in my tank. I've never raised fry before so I'm definitely going to have to start researching lol. Thank you for all the knowledge you share it's so appreciated.
Might it be possible for you to do a video on how to breed bloodworms. If you have one of those could you put up a link to it?
Hi Mark, How old are the Corys that you breed ?
Hi their about 18 months old.
Hi Mark,
I can easily get my Corys the breed and lay eggs but the eggs are never fertile and I have zero hatch rate. Any advice?
Try adding a new Male 👍😀
I have had these corys for several years, and there are several males. Maybe it's the fermale(s)?
What should i be using to condition my sterbi corys. And if they are left in yhe same tank what is the chances of any eggs surviving
Bloodworm, live of frozen. High protein fish food like bug bites is good.
Keep them well fed and they are less likely to eat the eggs.
I can't find the best solution on getting my eggs to catch. Most funges up within 24 to 36 hours. What's your best way hatching your eggs ?
Try changing the male.
I’m really surprised the bronze Cory bred with the albino! Is this normal? What color will the fry be?
They will all turn out bronze. The albino gene doesn't cross over.
Mark, do you remove the fish once they have finished spawning? And how to you stop the eggs from rotting?
Hi Mandy .
If you can remove the adults once they have spawned move them out. If you can't keep them well fed. As for the eggs going bad, if they are healthy fertilised eggs and your tank water is good they will be fine.
MARK'S AQUATICS Thank you 😊
She lays more than 5-6 eggs. They lay 20-30 eggs at a time. Anywhere from 100-400 eggs per session is normal, with an average of around 150. If you find less it's because they've eaten some. Pretty much every species of cory has a tendency to eat it's own eggs immediately after laying them; I've literally had a female eat her previous deposit while she was laying the next one. Some species do lay less but the bronze cory in particular (which is this species) is one of the species that lays lots of eggs at a time.
Having said that, if they are breeding for the first time then they will produce very few or no fertile eggs, especially if they aren't fully grown. If they are already fully grown then they have a better chance of producing fertile eggs. If they have laid a lot of infertile eggs then I would imagine that they would be more eager to eat those than the fertile ones; cories are scavengers and tend to prefer eating things that aren't alive. If they sense that the eggs are dead then I would guess that they would be more drawn to them than if there were a lot of fertile eggs. If these haven't bred before then they would probably have produced a lot of infertile eggs, so when you found the spared eggs, there would appear to be a lot less than was originally laid.
I once found a baby panda cory in a tank I was CYCLING in which I'd put plants from my tank with pandas. Lost the little guy, unfortunately, because I did not expect to see a baby cory and he was so tiny I couldn't catch him. :(
Maybe one day I'll follow your advice and try breeding more intentionally!
Do the corys eat the eggs?
If you keep them well fed they'll leave them alone. 😀👍
Hi Mark good and bad news.I did say about my corys eater her eggs.I put 10 of my ember tetra into breeding tank 1 died of stress.did water change the seen little cory about 1/2 inch doing well.I now have 8 pepperd corys 7 harlerquin rasbora 1 rose better .But id did burn out my 100 heater and burn carpet eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.good job im not married.Keep up the good work live the videos Mark.Welsh Jeff
The amount of carpet and rugs that I've ruined over the years. 😂👍
tank you fere much my fraind
Won't the shrimp eat some of those eggs?
They will eat dead eggs but not the living ones.
@@MARKSAQUATICS I did not know that. Thanks!
Haha, you managed to get the albino and regular bronze to breed! To my knowledge at least, I haven't managed it yet.
I've seen it once, there was 300-400 regular fry and like 10 albinos :) crazy
@@mladenpasin2857 The albinos may not have necessarily come from the albino parent. It's a recessive trait to the regular colouration. Since they are mixed so often, regulars and albinos readily breed with each other, and as a result the recessive albino genes end up being carried in regular offspring. Occasionally when two regulars who both have recessive albino genes breed, they can spontaneously produce albinos. That's how the first albino was ever created after all ;). Having said that, an albino being involved makes the chances of an albino offspring much greater, so it probably was involved. Obviously if an albino breeds with a regular that has recessive albino genes, the chances that an offspring gets albino genes from both parents and so is albino is much higher.
My albinos have laid eggs during a breeding session (the regulars were mating and laying like crazy) but I didn't see any mating between the albinos and the male regulars and the eggs weren't viable anyway which leads me to believe they laid eggs in response to chemicals in the water released by the laying regulars, not necessarily because a male had mated with them. I'm 99% they are all aeneus but I know reproductive methods differ between different species of cory so if they are a different species, it could be that the chemical the bronzes use to signify mating signify egg-laying in this species. Who knows *shrugs*
UPDATE: By complete coincidence, today my cories decided to breed again and I actually saw a bronze male breed with an albino female! Definitely saving the eggs to see what they produce.
UPDATE: the fry are all 4-6 weeks old now, and they are all regulars. The genetics of my tank are going to get very messy once they sexually mature and start breeding
Rain water worked for my emerald corys!
cory cats are amazing, in my top 5 fave fish ,looking forward to my sterbai to get old enough to breed,, and i have white ones ,,i dont normally like albinos but they are so pretty i am glad i got them,,so thank you mark i will be following your advise .x
Ain't live blood worms dodgy with parasites & shit? Great vids by the way✌️🏴
I accidentally bread my cory's a few days ago. I hope I have some success with the eggs. if I atleast have 2-5 out of the 2 dozen eggs ill be happy!
Brilliant 👏 powder up some fish flakes to feed the babies
Nature female cories: "you're not doing it right, I'll do it myself! hand me your stuff!" *sucks the male - fertilizes the eggs herself*
That cory in the far back at the beginning isn't the same species as the rest. That's why it's distanced itself and not breeding with them. I'm pretty sure the albino is the same species though. Ime the albinos have a harder time breeding than their counterparts.
You need to visit people’s tanks and be the fish whisperer...
Please do Harlequins before you go to Coral lol
Ventral fins not anal fin. Ventral fins are paied the anafin is singular. The female cory holds the eggs cupped between her ventral fins.
Yes your quite right. I'm getting old. 🤯