hey all new here

[pennfisherman]

hey guys new here and love corys. would love to try to breed them in a colony setting... not to make money but as plesure. i have a 40gallon breeder that i can set up. i dont wanna have to remove the eggs. i was thinking maybe a dwarf type but i have no idea. do u guys havce any ideas? what would be a good kind of cory? how many? male/female ratio? how should i set the tank up? i am thinking just corys so that theres nothing eating the eggs/fry. (except for some of them) but is there fish that r safe to keep in a breeding enviornment?

help me i want to make my own cory colony and enjoy these amazing fish! thanks everyone all advice is apprecated.
feel free to post some of your cory tanks! (everyone loves seeing tanks )
thanks again
-matt

[MatsP]

In a 40 gal tank (with ONLY corys), and a lot of plants and small nooks & crannies (the stone macaroni make great little "tunnels" for the fry to hide in, for example), you should be able to get a slow growth in numbers of many types of corys. If you have a larger number of fish (more than 10), I don't think it makes a huge difference how many males and females you have. I certainly have successfully increased the number of Corydoras sterbai and C. metae in my tanks in the past using this "low maintenance breeding method".

If you want numbers to rise relatively quickly, then you do need to isolate eggs from parents, as most corys will predate on fry even if they don't eat their own eggs.

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Mats

[Richard B]

Welcome to PC

[corybreed]

A 40 breeder would make a nice display tank. If it is well planted some of the fry will survive and the population will slowly grow.

Mark

[syno321]

Hello and welcome! My personal choice for the tank you are planning would be C. hastatus.
1)they will swim mid-water so they will always be in sight
2)they are easy to keep and feed
3)they will seem like a flock of silver hummingbirds constantly searching the plant surfaces for food items
4)they will most definitely reproduce and increase the school

Good luck!

[pennfisherman]

thaks all i will deff look into it, while we r on the topic of a new tank build, is there any other cats other then corys that would be a nice fit in this tank, and might breeed, i love being able to breed fish in captivity so thats kinda a big selling point of my next fish.

[MatsP]

There are LOTS of corys that have been bred in captivity. It's hard to list all of them [it's something we should have a search for!]... I'd say at least 1 in 4 of the corys have been bred, and bear in mind that some of the corys are extremely rare in the shops, so there some that probably haven't even been attempted to be bred.

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Mats

[Leopardfrogplec]

Apparently the long-snouted corys are harder to breed than the short-snouted ones.

[pennfisherman]

ok cool, is there any type of fish that i can add that will be no treat at all to the eggs or fry? maybe some hatchet fish? or somthing alone that line. also will i need some alge clean-up crew? or do the corys munch on the alge?

thanks for all the help guys, i joined a bunch of websites to get some info, and i have to say u guys are by far the nicest and most helpful.

i know this is asking alot... but does anyone have some pics of there cory tanks? or can anyone direct me to an area on the site where i can look through members tanks.
again thanks very much!
-matt

[MatsP]

Hatchet fish are probably the most likely to not eat the fry/eggs, but there is absolutely no guarantee that ANY fish will be completely safe with any other "smaller than their mouth" fry/eggs.

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Mats

[pennfisherman]

ok thanks, i just figured hatchets cause they r peaceful when i last had them, and they dont really leave the top of the tank, and the corys are bottom.

[MatsP]

Yes, certainly all true. But just about any fish will take the chance when it presents itself to eat something "tasty".

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Mats