How to Breed Corydoras Catfish!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- Wow, am I finally posted a video on time?! This is an in depth guide on breeding common corydoras, such as albino corydoras, bronze corydoras, peppered corydoras and MOST corydoras that you would commonly find in your local big-brand aquarium/pet store. There is many many reasons why your catfish might not be spawning/breeding. I'm hoping this list helps you figure out what's wrong with your fish! This video also includes some spawning triggers :)
What sort of corydoras are you trying to spawn?
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I know I’m supposed to have more but the last two times at the fish store they only had one peppered corys so I got 1 each time and you could tell that they were sad. This morning they got to hang out after quarantine finally and they were pumped! So happy! I’ll buy a few more when I can
Don't feel bad about it, Jeremy :) We all make mistakes, I've even made that one lol. What matters is you're getting them friends, soon 😊😊 Cory love!
Have you found any friends for them yet?
@@gennasharples9409 yes I have. Sorry I didn’t see that someone replied
@@JillsFishRoom That was very sweet of you. I’m just realizing where my notifications are or I would’ve got back to you sooner
Hi Jill! Corydora's are by far my favorite type of aquarium fish. Ever since I was a little kid my Dad always had a 75 gallon tank set up in our house. He always kept a pair of Angelfish, several types of Mollies, Shrimp, Neon Tetras, a Pleco and Corydora's. My Dad had several types of Cory's... Albino, Bronze, Julli, Black band and Spotted. Corydora's were the first type of fish I was able to successfully breed, which I thought was amazing! My favorite type of Cory is the Bronze. I've had a few of them live 5-6yrs, which is part of the reason I like them so much. Anyway, Just wanted to say... I love your channel!
I love my Albino Cory's and I love the vid. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. I hope you keep the vids coming!
Hello Jill it is very nice to meet you I hope you keep on making more videos about your fish
for 2 reasons
Just purchased groups of Pandas, Emerald’s, and Pepper’s, and am sure glad I found your channel! Thank you for passing on your incredible knowledge to us Cory novices. Have a great day!
I'm so glad to see u again 🤗 keep up the great work
Good to see you again as well! Thank you ☺️
@@JillsFishRoom can u do a breeding video on mollies , I bought 3 and they keep having babies lol
First time a person finally stated the truth about a Corydoras diet. They are predominately carnivores and they only feed on very little plant-matter.
I have been feeding mine a homemade mix of Koi Pellet, an a Soy and Ground Fish powder. And it's working wonders.
My Cory's have bred 2 weeks after I received them
As for my
Thank you for the advice on feeding them live foods to encourage breeding, I’m going to try this today! My corys laid eggs but I was too busy at the time to collect them and when I came back they were all eaten :(
Lol Gabriel, it's hard to get to them in time since they are soooo tasty 😆 live foods are definitely the go! Let me know if you're able to get some next time 😁
When you said you were about to head into summer I was so confused I forgot Australia is backwards 😂
I totally forgot about that or I would of mentioned it in the vid! lollll
Oh man, I really wish it was getting into winter right now though 😭
@@JillsFishRoom ik Florida is finally cooling down a little and its beautiful
Thank you choosing api. It feels very good to know an experienced aquarium fish keeper choosing fish food of Indian company.
You’re inspiring me to get cories!!
I would die if you got cories because of me 😭 I feel like a mesiah spreading their good word lolll
@David Joseph chill
Cory gang 4 life. Just got some leopard corys this past week loved em so much that i went to go get 5 green corys aswell now have 11 corys doing cory things together.
I have albinos and peppered and I love them so much
I have been able to get my albino corridors to breed about once a week. I get 20 to 30 eggs I was letting them go and not taking them separating them and nothing was happening I was getting her babies. So I decided to get a little hang on basket net and I put them in there and waited and I ended up with about 5:00 so far. But after their sack is gone they're dying and I don't know what I'm doing wrong here I wasn't deliberately trying to bring them I only have two albinos and to Pepper in my aquarium, so I do want more to get bigger groups make them happier. Then I can move them to the 70 gallon tank once I have enough. But let me know I was giving them brine shrimp eggs
Omg! What's this video even about 😍
I don't have any but after seeing your videos I definitely want some.
Let me know if you get some 💙 they are sooooo worth it!
Omg!!!! That clip of like 100 corys is adorable!!!! Its like a pile of puppies!!! Oh how much I love corys 😍😍😍
I have peppered corys and I adore them! 🐟🐠🐡
Hardcore corydora fan made me subscribe immediatly! 😉 My favorite corydora is the longfinned salt and pepper corydora.
When I was in college many years ago I had a small little tank in my dorm with two corydoras I'd gotten from a pet store, not even knowing if they were male or female. One day I saw what appeared to be a few eggs...not knowing what to do exactly I removed the eggs into a separate container with the tank water for safekeeping. To my surprise a few of them actually hatched and grew up. I guess they are easy fish to breed!
Nice. My favourites are the albino ones
Mine are albinos as well :) My first corydoras 💙
I have four Bronze and two Peppers in my tank along with my Tetras,( Black Skirts, Black Neons, Neons and Black Phantoms). I recently discovered a baby Bronze about an inch long in my tank. I think it is the only one. Oh, and I also have a Siamese Alge eater and some Octos in there .
I have pepper corys and they’re making babies right now! I certainly didn’t intend for them to breed, but since I only have 5 I may sell the surviving babies back to the fish store and keep one of them for the tank. Thanks for the video!
Hey Elizabeth :) A blessing in disguise, I'd call it. Since albino/bronze/peppered cories are so cheap, you can EASILY make back your money selling back to fish stores 😄 I was even able to sell my cory eggs online to a local breeder. Lovely stuff 🥰
@@JillsFishRoom Unfortunately I think the eggs were either unfertilized or all got eaten up. 😥 Next time I’ll be sure to take the proper precautions and protect the eggs so I can have some babies. But thanks for your advice and I’ll keep that blessing in mind if/when they start breeding again :)
I love watching you.
corydoras are my favorite 🥺 mine laid eggs for the second time and now I’m gonna try to keep them alive!
Congrats! Let me know how it goes pls :)
Also, I love Conan Grey!
How did it go? I'm about to do the same
i've been doing a fish in cycle for around 2 months now and it is finally almost perfect. I also think I discovered 2-3 of my corydoras are pregnant! I want to be able to keep the babies and see if I can successfully keep them alive but i'm not sure how to get the eggs? do i wait for her to lay them and then take them into a different tank? or do I let them raise them? (that's if they don't eat them).. i also have a betta in their tank that would probably eat the eggs
AWESOME video! My panda cories are laying eggs like crazy (as you predicted!) however i have big difficulties keeping the fry alive :(
Omg! I was just thinkin bout u the other day. I havent seen you in a while 😢
Seriously, do not feel bad. I truthfully had such a hard time keeping my fry alive for the first few months after my corydoras started breeding. They are definitely harder to keep alive than guppy babies smhhh
Keep posting‼️
My cories dragged the pleco caves and driftwood too one side of the tank and then burrowed beneath the large fake rock.
Thank you for this video! My Albinos spawned today and I have around 50 eggs and I moved all the eggs over to a 5 gallon hatchery for their first few weeks.
Can't wait for you to do a spawning video on Jullii.
Same
Don’t forget to outcross, adding some fry to the breeding group is fine, but sell the excess and add more new blood to your breeding group. Avoiding inbreeding whenever possible is a good way to improve the gene pool of the captive population. If more people do this, the quality of the fish being sold will naturally increase.
Since we are on the topic of inbreeding and genetic diversity, wild fish are absolutely worth their weight in gold. They have fresh genes that will improve the gene pool.
Jill,
I myself own a few tanks but more into American and central American cichlids but i do have a 29-gallon community tank where I have 2 corys and they are awesome. I am planning to get more. Thanks to you I have gained significant information in regards to these awesome corydoras!. #FishLife #MuchLoveFrom SouthernCaliforina, USA
Hi Adam 😄
How cool! I think cichlids are neat, especially rams and discus. Im afraid of keeping them tho because I hear they can be a bit bitey, lol 😅
Your cories will love some more friends and maybe you'll end up with babies! Thank you so much for your kind words 🤩
@@JillsFishRoom Rams can be a bit feisty but they do well with angelfish and corydoras. That would be pretty cool to see them spawn. You are welcome and keep up the phenomenal fish keeping : ).
cory fan here
This is my first time with a pregnant albino. Cory I have her in a mesh in the tank breeding tank. I don't know what to do after that. I just know after she lays the eggs to get her out, but can I leave the breeding tank with the eggs in the fish tank??
I've been seeing my Corys "mate" for months on end (couples doing side to side wiggles in close contact) but no offsprings.
My guess is the other fish got to them first---or maybe they weren't actually mating.
I put my money on the cories eating them lolllll. Mine will fully JUST spawn and then gobble up their own eggs. 😧
I've also seen my male cories trying to spawn together. They are such weird little things lolll
great video .. smudge spot are my favourite ( not expensive but i love them ) i have 6 Wild Caught Melanistius (Blue Spottedcory) 6 black venezuelan and 6 concolour slate corys arriving this week
Omg please please do post a video! I just hit your bell icon. I swear I did that before bjt whatevs 🤔 I'm dying to see them 💙
Thank youu! 😘
thank you i will be posting a video as soon as they arrive
Will tubifex worm be enough for my corys to eat and breed? Thank you
3 of my females spawned this week hoping to have some fry by the weekend!
I have my fingers crossed for you! :)
I love cory dora! I have peppered corys and they spawned unexpectedly and we only for 3 to survive. we had 9 fry to begin with but they all started to die off and so we added the surviving 3 to our community tank and we see them every once and awhile.
Don't feel bad! I had a huggggely hard time keeping my babies alive for the first few months. The big change was I started doing water changes with my main tank and I fed them an absolute TON of food.
Also adding snails/shrimp to their tank helped clean up after them ☺️ I seriosuly hope you the best for your future fry raising 💙
What a lovey PAIR!!………Of Corydoras
Big stuff !
Just got my black spawing and know get the fry grow up..
So for so good Nice video,
You got a New subscrider from Belgium 🇧🇪
Congrats on your spawn 🎉😄 also, welcome to my channel and thank you for subbing! Let me know how raising your babies goes 🙂
@@JillsFishRoom day 4 and still doing al 6 good..
I am more actifs on instagram so go see my tanks and setup if you want
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Will you be doing the orange Valenzuelans
You have a nice pair of corydoras
Apparently you have to do a 50% water change has well.
Pygmy, Panda Cory’s. Do you sell them? I enjoyed watching. Thank you for sharing.
Can the average sized one breed with the big ones i know i have at least 2 males and theres 1 giant female over twice the size of them there albino corys can they breed still i just got her
I need to add some to my fish room!
Please do! They're so fun :)
I have one male and one female, I’m trying to avoid them having eggs, any suggestions?
Can you help me out? I have tried 2 times now to bread the corydoras eggs out in a small box with airbal in it and they Come out. But after a day or 3 they all seem to die. I haven.t give them any food in the time they have Come out.
Really helpful Thanks!
Hi I have a doubt that will a albino Cory cat hide if it is kept alone pleaselet meme know
Cool
Thanks a lot for your advice.
How can you tell the difference between male and female Corredor’s
My emerald green corys the males are darker in the females are more pinkish
Got my first couple eggs just 4 days ago from my panda corys wanst even trying to breed them just found some eggs put them in a separate tank and they just cam out this morning
My cory's love essentials shrimp pellets
I would LOVE to have some yellow lazers or some more rarer cory's but they are very expensive
Definitely 😬 It was painful to bring myself to buy them but they are so pretty! My excuse is that its an investment. Hopefully I'll get babies soon 🙂🤞
Very helpful video! I had panda Cory’s as a kid and one day I noticed a single baby swimming in the tank. Didn’t do anything special to make that happen, and it was actually a very suboptimal situation in a 5 gallon tank that was overcrowded with fancy guppies.
Planning to try getting my orange Venezuelan and orange laser Cory’s to breed in my 150 gallon planted tank (I need more of both of them first), and will be getting a different variety for my son’s 30 gallon tank to try breeding (probably either pandas, Julii’s, Adolfi, or another type that’s known to be easier to breed and very fun to watch in a group)
Any suggestions on breeds that are easier to breed than others with corydoras catfish?
I have black corydoras I've heard that they are rare in the US but they are everywhere in Scotland
I like the green corydoras
Glad I found you
Such a sweet thing to say 😢 I'M GLAD YOU'RE HERE!
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Interesting video, thanks. After many years together my pair of Emerald Corys suddenly produced about a dozen little ones, not sure why now, but its great to see. I once had a long tail Panda mate with a short tail, and produce a medium sized tail pair of fry that were very cute, and lived for years, but never produced any more fry. I have a well established and heavily planted tank so I think that helps with the survivability of the fry. Also, I am not sure if the fry are growing at different rates, or if they are actually from multiple hatches, since some are quite small and some are much larger, or do they just grow at different rates?
I am also wondering about this: In October 2022 I got 3 Albino Corys (all there were at the store), 3 weeks later I bought 3 more to have the standard 6. The odd thing is though they were all the same size when I got them, (very small a bit over an inch long) for the last few months they have settled into what seems to be their long term size. One is VERY big (for a Cory) and I have named him Zoyburg! - he is about 3 inches long, two are extremely small - still about an inch maybe 1.25 of an inch, and the other 3 are in the middle; maybe a bit over two inches. Recently they DID lay a bunch of eggs (probably the largest one - but did not see them doing it) after an evening of acting absolutely nuts. I was worried something was wrong; so checked the water and while nitrites were fine, nitrates were a bit high. So; did a 65% water change with usual chemicals, put a new zeo - carb insert in my AquaClear filter, and rinsed off several of my artificial plants. Then I turned off the light and covered the tank with a towel. The next morning I found 2 bunches of eggs on the glass of the tank . However I am currently not too excited as I don't think they will survive. I put them all into a breeding box, with airstones nearby. Am wishing I would have just put the airstone in with them as now (two days on) think they may be dead as they look white. What I need to know is HOW TO KEEP THE EGGS ALIVE TO HATCH. I know that I DID have to move them as the tank they are in (Vista 16 - BEST TANK EVER IMO) has 4 different types of fish, all very small - 6x Albino Corys, 6x Rio Tetras, 2x Clown Plecos, 2x Bristlenose Plecos. Everyone gets along very well and they are happy as can be, but I am sure they would have eaten the eggs had I not moved them. The Plecos love to hang out on the tank walls so they would definitely have found them! If anyone has any ideas re 1 - THE 3 DIFFERENT SIZES or 2 - HOW TO HATCH THE EGGS, please let me know. BTW The two tiny ones are not in any way weak or sickly. In fact they are the most active ones and love to swim quickly from side to side , or to the surface. I am wondering if that is why they stay so small - too much exercise! Conversely Zoyburg, the giant one, stays near the tank bottom almost all the time and spends all his/her time looking for food & eating it. They two in the middle are mainly on the tank bottom but swim a bit though not NEARLY as much as the two teeny ones. The teensy ones are a joy to watch, and I sometimes think that they think they are tetras, as they like to swim with them!
I love corydoras! Thank you for this information🙂👍🏻
My favorites would have to be Habrosus, I love the pygmy varieties. Would love to get them to spawn at some point.
You have great taste :) I've watched so many videos on pygmy cories, I love that some are mid-ish dwelling fish. I'm dying to get my hands on some 😁
I had my LFS get some ordered in this week, I'm picking them up saturday. Will be the first time I've kept them since about 2015 I think
In the past, I have kept hastatus, habrosus and pygmaeus and would absolutely love to breed them.
Panda corydoras is my fave
Good detailed info ... worked for me 👍
Hey , How do you recognize the male from this female until maturity ? Thx.
How do you to them apart, the male and female?
Great video and very helpful 👌🏾
I love corys and iwould really like to breed panda's there my favorite
Love watching my Dora’s
Great information. Thank you for the video. ✊🏼
I like corydoras aenus and corydoras paleatus and corydoras trilineatus
I love sterbas and am trying to breed them rn
My orange laxer corys bred once and have not done so again in 2 weeks. Honestly don’t remember what I did or what triggered the spawn but I am acing trouble spacing them again :(. Will try to buy live black worms to feed them today and hopping this helps. I was told doing cold water changes during a low pressure front helps too but is that really a good trigger or will I be wasting my time waiting for the low pressure front to come?
Which size of greencorydoras breed ?
Sorry, but what kind of worms did you say and where do you buy them?
I like salt and pepper cories (habrosus) the most. They stay small and still retain the bottom dwelling corydora behavior unlike the other pygmy species that tend to be spend alot of time mid-level. Also can't help but say you look nice.
Wow. Thank you. I bought some cories. Took all your tips. 🙌🏼🙌🏼.
Do cories eat vegetables?
I appreciate you! ☺️
And yes, cories love boiled veggies. Although sometimes, it can take a day or two for mine to touch zucchini 🙂
Orange Venezuelan 😍
Have you ever bred sterbais
I have 2 corydoras paleatus albinos in my koï and goldfish pond, but they are illegal where I am now, so kind of difficult to find new ones
I like albino corys.
i’m trying to breed hastatus corys! they’re my absolute favourite because they’re so small and cute, a couple of them spawned in my planted tank a while ago, so i’ve been trying to breed them myself ever since :)
I want aeneus eggs but i dont get it,i do cold water change but nothing happend...🥲🥲🥲
I'm kind of in the same boat with you right now :( I moved my corydoras aeneus to a new tank 2 months ago and they still havent layed eggs. I just need to find out what's stopping them, now 😵
Where do u get black worms?
I have 4 salt n pepper Cory. Can I add more salt n pepper Cory later?
Yes :) you can always add more cories later!
So I bought more peppered cories and I don’t think my first cories were peppered cories. Unfortunately I bought the new Coreys and a couple algae eating fish and had them in quarantine and the algae eating fish ended up being a Chinese algae eating fish and it killed 4 of my new Coreys. Only one survived. I should’ve paid more attention to what the fish keeper was doing normally I just let them do their thing so they don’t feel rushed
Currently breeding both regular and long finned panda corys, plus long fin green aeneus AKA bronze corys. I have a 2M/1F trio of ehrhardti corys but those were a rare lucky find for me, and I have NO idea how to breed them...
Just got some Albino coreys In corentin rn
I adore my Cory's I got 2 because they were the last ones at the store and had no fins 2 years later I have happy beautiful Cory's with all their fins and ended up with a male who's about 2 inches and a female who's almost 3 inches (albino corys)
I have some salt n pepper cories in one tank and I want to get a different kind for my other tanks. I’m limited in alaska to what ever the fish stores have.
Hi Jeremy 😄 I totally feel for you. I'm limited to Australia for my fish. They have serious importation laws here so it's hard for me to find rare cories/other fish 😢
New sub
Beautiful tank 👍👍👍 thank you for the update ...😁
Just curious are we subscribed to each other ? Yt has been doing weird things lately .. 😳
Interesting avocado shirt there...😏
Are plants necessary or suggested & if so; which one(s) or type(s)? Did you setup a black worm culture in that extra tank?
My coridoras randomly spawn and my emperor tetras are eeting all the eggs
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I have a tank that's just 2 albino Cory cats, Mama and Papa Cory (respectfully), they're a breeding pair and I've been wanting some Cory fry. Mama Cory lays TONS of eggs and I've even watched her, and based on my research they're fertilized, but my problem is that the eggs fall off the glass between the 2nd and 3rd day that they've been laid and I don't know why. This has happened more than I can count and I'm getting pretty sad that there's no fry. Do you know what's going on?