Panda cories

[vinniemabuna]

Im getting panda cories from aqua-bid, redkahuna-steve, hi fish are great and he is a great guy ! I have spirulina sticks, NLS pellet food and spirulins flakes, isthis a good food combo ? Im guessing the pandas are 3 months old or so, how old do they have to be to spawn ? Thanks

[MatsP]

Spirulina is not (like) a food that corys would normally eat. I'd call them insectivores or micro-carnivores as they eat small worms, crustaceans and other such things. Tetra Bits, Tetra Tabimin and other general purpose foods are good. Generally, any sinking food that is mainly "meat" based, but not really meaty such as "carnivore pellets".

They will also take live or frozen small foods such as bloodworms, daphnia, etc. Freshly made food such as finely chopped prawns and such are also good - just make sure it's a small amount and the pieces are tiny, as the mouths of corys aren't very big.

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Mats

[Richard B]

They'll eat it but it isn't the best or ideal. As Mats states general foods with "meaty" content are preferable.

Some things that i've had great success with are Tropical Welsi Gran, Tropical supervit granulat, Tetra prima, & the small pellets made from ragworms which are distributed by Aqua thrive (made by dragon feeds) http://www.aquathrive.com/freshwaterProducts.shtml

[vinniemabuna]

Hi, thanks all, is decap brine shrimp good for them , also how about earthworm flakes, or a combo of planktom krill @ egg @ earthworm-flake ?

[MatsP]

All of those sounds like good foods.

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Mats

[vinniemabuna]

Hi , hear they are swimming with my guppies, thanks,

[vinniemabuna]

One more !

[vinniemabuna]

Sorry last one!

[nvcichlids]

They look nice. He is a great guy, I haven't gotten any fish from him, but he is pretty fun to chat with.

[apistomaster]

To answer your question about breeding age, I think well raised fish may spawn at as early as 8 months old but 10-12 months might be more typical.

I found I had my best results if the water was 75 to 78*F

Mine liked to spawn in Hair Algae.

Decap Brine Shrimp are a good food for fry to adults but for best breeding results provide lots of live bbs, black worms and frozen blood worms.
I feed all my Corydoras, Hypancistrus and Peckoltia juveniles and breeders earthworm sticks and Spirulina Sticks(which contains shrimp).
I also feed earth worm flakes occasionally.

[Vlacek]

Hello,
I'd like to ask for advice in regards to breeding panda corries. I have five of them 2F+3M, all adult (over 4cm long). They started spawning and I'm now trying to raise a fry but I think I'm doing something wrong. I collected two eggs on Christmas Eve from which one developed and a fry appeared in 5 or 6 days. Since then, it's yolk sac was only very slowly getting smaller. The fry still (after more than 14days!) has some kind of sac and basically can't swim, only doing some kind of loops from time to time. I don't believe it can eat but it's still alive. The water temperature egg and fry was initially (until Jan 7th) kept in was sth. between 72F and 74F, then I raised it to 75-76F when I've collected another set of eggs (17 eggs I think). I raised a temperature because I thought it was a reason why my first fry is developing so slowly. Another 10 panda fry hatched in 4days after spawning but as of today, only like three can swim and I think developed proper way - no yolk sac (almost from beginning) and can swim in two or three days. Remaining seven seems to follow the path my older guy - still (after 5days since hatching) having small yolk sac, and only doing loops from time to time, mostly laying on one side or upside down.
Does anyone have the same experience or explanation for this behavior of panda fry? I'm I doing anything wrong? I'm thinking about pH value which I have between 7 and 7.5 while it'd be better to have it more on acidic side but not sure if this can have some effect on eggs and fry. Also I'm thinking if it could be because I've somehow harmed eggs when collecting them using credit card with sharpened one side. I always collected eggs in the morning so between 4 and 9hrs after female stuck them on the glass. Should I wait longer before collecting them? I found them too sticky and soft if I try to collect them shortly after being laid (I smashed one because I wasn't able to remove it from credit card...). Or could it be something genetic? I'm thinking of leaving different male with female once they start spawning again (I always had to remove two or three pandas and only leave spawning pair or pair plus one extra male in the tank because they have immediately eaten too many eggs, more than half I'd say)
Another spawning happened just yesterday so I'd like to start treating them better to have higher survival ratio (although I haven't found any dead up to date but I don't believe most of them can eat so can hardly survive long).
Any advice is welcome

Thanks,
Vlacek