I have been trying my hand to breed burgessi and Gossei for a while now. For a while I have some success in getting the eggs to hatch but for the last couple of batch, none of the eggs will hatch, it will get fungus infection by about the 5th day.

The temperature is aroudn 25C and I place the eggs ...

I have a colony of these which I bought as breeding colony. After trialling for a year, they beings to breed for me (2 male and 3 females).

So far there are at least 4 batches now. They are in a 3.5'x15"x15" tank. It is bare bottom but with lots of wood and ferns attached to the wood.

The adult ...

I bought this as Njasse but I doubt that it is as the body is not slim enough and the dots are not fine enough.

Could you please help me to identity them?



Many thanks.

I managed to find an article in this forum on sexing these criters but the breeding part is a bit vague. Has any breed these criters before? Any advise?

I finally got my sterbai to spawn :D , thanks for all the suggesting a few weeks ago. It actually caught me by suprise as I did not expect her to spawn so soon. I only have one female but three males. I introduce some young sterbai into the thank last week as week as well.

It is so fanscinating to ...

I recently bought 4 of these (about 6cm). I hope to raise a pair out of these. I try to search for literature on this criters but without much success. I can only find a small section in one of my catfish book and a bit more description from the Internet.

I try feeding them with algae pellets ...

Peter,

Glad to see that you have quite a bit of help. I just recently considered breeding them. I have never bred a cory before. I read a lot about it, it looks quite involved. The only catfish I have bred is Bristlenose and they are nothing compare to what I have read about the cory. Do you mind ...

I have a few of these, I suspect one of them is female and the others are male through the body shape (vertical view) and physical size, ie, the male are smaller than the female. Anyway, I have been thinking about breeding this catfish for a while. I read books and the internet, the conclusion I got ...