Pnda cory breeding set up

[taheton]

Hi everyone, a friend just gave some Panda corys,she is a local breeder and bought them from another breeder, but she didnt had enought time to breed this little guys so she gave them to me,They had never breed before, and when they arived to one of my aquariums began to breed like crazy, The bad thing is that they like to eat their eggs , I have never breed corys before, I read that water changes with lower temperature and ph stimulates themn, that works to me really nice, each time I add water or change it begins the courtship and next day I found leftovers of eggs, what could be a nice set up for a breeding tank?

[corybreed]

If you want to raise the fry you will need to set up a second tank. You can remove the adults or the eggs it is up to you. It you only have one tank you can load it with plants such as Java Moss and some of the fry might survive with the adults.

Mark

[taheton]

Hi Mark, than ks for your advice, the corys are alone in a 8 gallon tank filled with java moss but they still find and eat eggs, what wouls be an ideal tank for them to lay eggs?, my plan is remove the corys after they spawn

[jeff@zina.com]

I used to breed cories in a 10 gallon or 20 long, and with Panda cories I used spawning mops. They liked to lay in the mops and the next morning I would pull the mops to a 2.5 gallon tank to hatch. I have also bred other cories with large stones or marbles as the substrate, the eggs would hatch and the fry would hide in the substrate and survive. Except I'd get maybe 5% of the results compared to pulling and hatching myself. I've found that if you keep cories well fed they don't hunt the eggs quick enough to get many before you pull the mops or remove the eggs another way. But I've never had any good success rate letting the eggs stay with the parents.

Jeff

[taheton]

Hi Jeff thank you very mutch I will begin to make that set up, I manged to get 10 eggs of pandas and they are hatching, what shall I feed them, I dont have microworms, but I have rotifers, live moss, artemia nauply, artificial rotifer powder and microalgae cultures could I use any of these?

[Inchworm]

Hi taheton

While C. pandas tend to eat their eggs, they also like to hide them too. This might make it difficult to find them if you have plants in the tank. I find it works well to keep the tank bare, with just a bit of gravel or sand on the bottom and hang metal thermometers on the side, in the flow of water from the filter. The pandas will hide their eggs on the undersides of them. Then, just remove the thermometer to another container for hatching.

[jeff@zina.com]

I manged to get 10 eggs of pandas and they are hatching, what shall I feed them, I dont have microworms, but I have rotifers, live moss, artemia nauply, artificial rotifer powder and microalgae cultures could I use any of these?

This reply is a little late, but I fed mine either micro worms or baby brine shrimp, both worked reasonably well. You have to watch how much you feed, dead food spoiling can wreak havoc in the tank. I never used rotifers for my cories, they were large enough to deal with larger foods to start, but they might work. Usually I would feed about day 4 after they had hatched, they were working on the egg yolks until then.

Jeff