Hi there Mate. Great video. I've have bread several types of Cory's and the one thing I think u are missing is a power head increased water flow also I suggest putting the mop directly in the flow of water! Anyway good luck im sure you will achieve it. N merry new year to you and all!
Ill have to give this a shot! My guess is the hardness. My tds is reading at 800! I figure a big waterchange with pure RO will help. RO filter should arrive Jan 6th!
I have 2 colonies of L134s that I am growing out to hopefully breed. My oldest group are getting close to adult age. The L134s, once they get comfortable in the tank, are super social. Mine are out a lot with the Venezuelan Blacks that they share a tank with, and they hang out outside their caves and don’t hide when I come up to the tank. I have some Florida Flagfish in their tank to take care of some algae and one of my big Golden Marble Angels in the tank too. The L134s don’t rasp much, but they do like hanging out on rocks and wood. This Pleco is an omnivore, and mine prefer the same things I feed my Cory’s. Their favorite is Omega One Catfish Pellets and Xtreme Bottom Wafers. Plecos don’t eat wood, but they rasp on it for the biofilm. My second colony are babies, and the babies are much shyer than the older ones. All my L134s like a lot of plant cover and nooks and crannies to explore. Mine are in my plant heavy tanks with some rocks and Spiderwood setup like roots. I added caves in amongst the Spiderwood roots and my males have staked out their caves in my tank with the older L134s. The younger colony is still exploring and hiding in various places. Good luck with your L134s. They are stunning fish and super personable.
I wish you luck too! I'll likely have lots of neon tetras as ditherfish in the future. I'm glad to hear yours settled in nicely! I hope mine will do the same. I'll be buying an adult colony at breeding age so fingers crossed when the rainy season hits this spring ill have lots of babies!
@ I’m not in that big of a hurry as I only breed for fun. I also like raising my plecos up. I have a bristlenose that I bred about 15 years ago. She is the last of my last bristlenose spawn. She is almost 15 years old and is a big girl. I lost her mom about a year ago. So far she rules the roost in her tank and she has a couple of super red juveniles she shares her space with. I don’t breed bristlenose any more. I do have a colony of Venezuelan Red Sails that are managing to grow thei colony all by themselves. I started with 8 and now have 15 and I noticed 3 new little babies yesterday, so now it is 18. I plan on moving 7 or 8 of them to my new tank I just setup over the holidays..
Thanks for sharing your fish room. I do recommend reading up a little more on Swordtails, Molly's, and Platie it is definitely a possibility to cross either to a swordtail and is in part how swordtails became as colorful as they are.just a tip in case you don't want to risk muddying up future lines. Pursuing and stabilizing a new line can be fun as well, with some patience 😊
The swords and platties can cross as they are both in the genus xiphorphorus and are so closely related. They are not able to cross with mollies as they are in the poecilia genus like guppies or endlers. That's why I'm ok to mix the two. I would not keep mollies and guppies or my endlers together or platies and swords together to avoid crossing species.
I haven't seen a blackworm culture in a breeder box like that before, a brief video on that setup would be cool if it's productive enough to feed regularly from. With your corys try adding some frogbit cover as well as dither fish. My panda corys breed pretty regularly, if you don't like hunting eggs in frogbit roots salvinia might help as cover while encouraging eggs in the spawning mop. Others mentioned a powerhead but putting an airstone under the floating mop would make it more tempting as well, some corys very selectively lay eggs around water flow.
I'll definitely do something quick on it. It is meant to keep them alive and produce a bit. It's more to make it take longer until I need to get more. . Ill give some salvinia a shot as well as some RO changes when my filter gets here. My tds reads 800 which is ridiculous. Thinking that may be the cause.
@@AquaticAscent Cory cats are generally river dwelling and lay their eggs pre flood conditions, so drop the water temp a few degrees and ADD some water flow or give them a water change. The eggs were eaten by the Chinese algae eater in the tank, but my group of 5 green Venezuela Cory cats laid 50+ eggs in a 50 gallon lightly planted tank lol
I enjoyed the video. It's nice to see what works for other breeders. Regarding the Corydoras breeding, here are a few thoughts: I'm currently breeding 4 species and two of them seem to pretty much require a drop in barometric pressure to trigger spawning -- basically, they mostly spawn when it rains, which means winter and spring for me. Also, you might consider trying to some dither fish. I know that isn't usually mentioned with Corydoras, but they seem more relaxed with fish actively swimming above them. Last, some species really need some time (several months at least) to get big enough to be mature.
I do know these guys are a few years old as they were a rescue. I also try to line up cool water changes before it rains but that hasn't seemed to do it. These guys are REALLY shy so I may add some goodieds as dithers to see if that helps. I was given them so they weren't in my initial plan to breed "for profit" but I figure if I can get them to spawn i can try some that are a bit more expensive.
I heard to open a window when it rains helps too. I appreciate the video as i just started rainbow fish and thought i saw eggs but was busted. So them getting eaten makes total sense.
My bronze Cories breed readily for me in my community tank just with a heavy protein feeding and a nice cool water change. I have other fish with them so maybe that’s what you’re missing
Also my Cories have never laid in a mop. Only on the glass, other hard surfaces and the underside of leaves. Not saying that they won’t lay in the mop, but mine have always chosen harder surfaces to stick them on I just hatched 50+ this week.
@@AquaticAscent I do know a little bit. They loved Xtreme algae wafers. They don't reach breading age until 3 years of age. They live up; to 9 years. Females have wider bodies. You need to simulate the rainy season to get them to breed. You have to lower the temp and ph with water changes. 1/3 RO water mixed with 2/3 tap. 1/3 tank volume. I've been told spring is the best months to trigger spawning March-June. Best to do water changes a day or two before the barometric pressure drop if there are storms coming I have one of the best pleco breeders in the world near me and I've spoken with him in depth.
Its a possibility, but I'm down to feed pretty early and haven't seen any spawning behavior at all. I've read they spawn in the AM. I just did a big cool waterchange and added some dither fish. Fingers crossed ill get some eggs tomorrow morning
@@AquaticAscent mine seem to love breeding after any kinda storm or rainfall no matter the time of day, yours could possibly not be sexually mature yet? also as dumb as this sounds it helps to double check if you actually have males and females lol, i had that issue with my pandas
These were a rescue batch of 8. They are HUGE and I've had them for about 6-8 months so I'm sure they are mature. Maybe I only have one male 🤷🏼♂️. I added some withers and am doing more frequent waterchanges in hopes of getting a spawn.
Loved it, im planning on starting my breeding fish room soon so the more inspiration i get from others the better!
I'm glad i could be inspiration! I'm doing a full tour of my fish rooms today and the video will be live on Wednesday.
@@AquaticAscent Awesome! ill wait for it
Awesome video really enjoyed it
Very thankful for the kind words!
Cool channel, man! Definitely subbing and looking forward to more!
I appreciate the love!
Great video, I'm glad I came across your channel
I am very thankful you thought so! More on the way!
Hi there Mate. Great video. I've have bread several types of Cory's and the one thing I think u are missing is a power head increased water flow also I suggest putting the mop directly in the flow of water! Anyway good luck im sure you will achieve it. N merry new year to you and all!
Ill have to give this a shot! My guess is the hardness. My tds is reading at 800! I figure a big waterchange with pure RO will help. RO filter should arrive Jan 6th!
Good video bro, cool to see other small fish TH-camrs getting going, keep crushing it
Thank you for the support!
I agree nice to see another smaller channel going great content
So glad you think so!
I have 2 colonies of L134s that I am growing out to hopefully breed. My oldest group are getting close to adult age. The L134s, once they get comfortable in the tank, are super social. Mine are out a lot with the Venezuelan Blacks that they share a tank with, and they hang out outside their caves and don’t hide when I come up to the tank. I have some Florida Flagfish in their tank to take care of some algae and one of my big Golden Marble Angels in the tank too. The L134s don’t rasp much, but they do like hanging out on rocks and wood. This Pleco is an omnivore, and mine prefer the same things I feed my Cory’s. Their favorite is Omega One Catfish Pellets and Xtreme Bottom Wafers. Plecos don’t eat wood, but they rasp on it for the biofilm. My second colony are babies, and the babies are much shyer than the older ones. All my L134s like a lot of plant cover and nooks and crannies to explore. Mine are in my plant heavy tanks with some rocks and Spiderwood setup like roots. I added caves in amongst the Spiderwood roots and my males have staked out their caves in my tank with the older L134s. The younger colony is still exploring and hiding in various places. Good luck with your L134s. They are stunning fish and super personable.
I wish you luck too! I'll likely have lots of neon tetras as ditherfish in the future. I'm glad to hear yours settled in nicely! I hope mine will do the same. I'll be buying an adult colony at breeding age so fingers crossed when the rainy season hits this spring ill have lots of babies!
@ I’m not in that big of a hurry as I only breed for fun. I also like raising my plecos up. I have a bristlenose that I bred about 15 years ago. She is the last of my last bristlenose spawn. She is almost 15 years old and is a big girl. I lost her mom about a year ago. So far she rules the roost in her tank and she has a couple of super red juveniles she shares her space with. I don’t breed bristlenose any more. I do have a colony of Venezuelan Red Sails that are managing to grow thei colony all by themselves. I started with 8 and now have 15 and I noticed 3 new little babies yesterday, so now it is 18. I plan on moving 7 or 8 of them to my new tank I just setup over the holidays..
Thats super cool! I'll definitely be growing out other Lnumbers of plecos once I have more space. That's a big part of the fun!
Thanks for sharing your fish room. I do recommend reading up a little more on Swordtails, Molly's, and Platie it is definitely a possibility to cross either to a swordtail and is in part how swordtails became as colorful as they are.just a tip in case you don't want to risk muddying up future lines. Pursuing and stabilizing a new line can be fun as well, with some patience 😊
The swords and platties can cross as they are both in the genus xiphorphorus and are so closely related. They are not able to cross with mollies as they are in the poecilia genus like guppies or endlers. That's why I'm ok to mix the two. I would not keep mollies and guppies or my endlers together or platies and swords together to avoid crossing species.
There are swordtail mollies tho, native to Mexico but they are a close cousin of the sailfin molly and are only related to swordtails in common name.
I use to have a heated fishroom and I had lots of ant problems, also nice setup.
Thanks for the compliment! Do you think the ants were from humidity?
@ yes they would make there nest under my 210’s lid on top of the brace. And in the tops of my hang on the back filters.
Sheesh, I'll keep that in mind when I can finally heat the room
Big Inspiration bro, love the vids❤
Thankful for the support! I really enjoyed the vlog style and am planning on flushing it out more.
I love your videos!! I need to get brave and make videos for my channel
Do it. the only thing to do is start. Worst case scenario years from now you can look back at your old projects.
@ thank you. It’s my goal for this year ❤️
I haven't seen a blackworm culture in a breeder box like that before, a brief video on that setup would be cool if it's productive enough to feed regularly from.
With your corys try adding some frogbit cover as well as dither fish. My panda corys breed pretty regularly, if you don't like hunting eggs in frogbit roots salvinia might help as cover while encouraging eggs in the spawning mop. Others mentioned a powerhead but putting an airstone under the floating mop would make it more tempting as well, some corys very selectively lay eggs around water flow.
I'll definitely do something quick on it. It is meant to keep them alive and produce a bit. It's more to make it take longer until I need to get more.
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Ill give some salvinia a shot as well as some RO changes when my filter gets here. My tds reads 800 which is ridiculous. Thinking that may be the cause.
@@AquaticAscent Cory cats are generally river dwelling and lay their eggs pre flood conditions, so drop the water temp a few degrees and ADD some water flow or give them a water change. The eggs were eaten by the Chinese algae eater in the tank, but my group of 5 green Venezuela Cory cats laid 50+ eggs in a 50 gallon lightly planted tank lol
I enjoyed the video. It's nice to see what works for other breeders. Regarding the Corydoras breeding, here are a few thoughts: I'm currently breeding 4 species and two of them seem to pretty much require a drop in barometric pressure to trigger spawning -- basically, they mostly spawn when it rains, which means winter and spring for me. Also, you might consider trying to some dither fish. I know that isn't usually mentioned with Corydoras, but they seem more relaxed with fish actively swimming above them. Last, some species really need some time (several months at least) to get big enough to be mature.
Oh, and try adding some fast, directed water flow at a floating mop. Many Cory species like to spawn near the top of a mop that is in a current.
I do know these guys are a few years old as they were a rescue. I also try to line up cool water changes before it rains but that hasn't seemed to do it. These guys are REALLY shy so I may add some goodieds as dithers to see if that helps. I was given them so they weren't in my initial plan to breed "for profit" but I figure if I can get them to spawn i can try some that are a bit more expensive.
@@AquaticAscent Good luck! Try some dithers and water flow directed at a hanging mop, in addition to what you have been doing.
I heard to open a window when it rains helps too. I appreciate the video as i just started rainbow fish and thought i saw eggs but was busted. So them getting eaten makes total sense.
They DEVOUR eggs. I found my thicker mops usually have more eggs when I check them. Making a few new mops way thicker than what you have may help!
My bronze Cories breed readily for me in my community tank just with a heavy protein feeding and a nice cool water change.
I have other fish with them so maybe that’s what you’re missing
Also my Cories have never laid in a mop. Only on the glass, other hard surfaces and the underside of leaves. Not saying that they won’t lay in the mop, but mine have always chosen harder surfaces to stick them on
I just hatched 50+ this week.
Ill probably be adding my goodieds after they finish QT
can you do a video on keeping blackworms?
Certainly! I just made a note of it.
I had 6 wild leopard frogs for 2 1/2 years. They were just getting to breading size. My tank broke when I was sleeping and I lost them all.
I got so excited thinking I was going to get top-tier knowledge. Then my heart broke. I'm so sorry for your loss 💔
@@AquaticAscent I do know a little bit. They loved Xtreme algae wafers. They don't reach breading age until 3 years of age. They live up; to 9 years. Females have wider bodies. You need to simulate the rainy season to get them to breed. You have to lower the temp and ph with water changes. 1/3 RO water mixed with 2/3 tap. 1/3 tank volume. I've been told spring is the best months to trigger spawning March-June. Best to do water changes a day or two before the barometric pressure drop if there are storms coming I have one of the best pleco breeders in the world near me and I've spoken with him in depth.
Ill keep these in mind when I get them settled in!
This might seem really dumb but are they sure the corys arent just eating the eggs? They love eating their own eggs.
Its a possibility, but I'm down to feed pretty early and haven't seen any spawning behavior at all. I've read they spawn in the AM. I just did a big cool waterchange and added some dither fish. Fingers crossed ill get some eggs tomorrow morning
@@AquaticAscent mine seem to love breeding after any kinda storm or rainfall no matter the time of day, yours could possibly not be sexually mature yet? also as dumb as this sounds it helps to double check if you actually have males and females lol, i had that issue with my pandas
These were a rescue batch of 8. They are HUGE and I've had them for about 6-8 months so I'm sure they are mature. Maybe I only have one male 🤷🏼♂️. I added some withers and am doing more frequent waterchanges in hopes of getting a spawn.
Add more Cory the more the merrier lol breed Super White plecos so I can afford them lol it’s work but it’s worth it
As in L236? I almost bought a breeding group a few months back.
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