Hi all!
First time post here. Great forum! Thought you might like a few pics and cat stories. This is part of my breeding group[4males,3 females] and one momentous nite of cory love. Thanks to Corybreed for helping me get this project off the ground. After moving my sterbs to a dedicated tank in early Oct. they immediately began breeding and I was getting eggs 3 out of every 4 nights. This continued into early Dec. and started to taper off. Then they went about 12 days without an egg. One night about 10 days ago I saw a ton of eggs and removed them to a hatching tank. The fry you see are what hatched out. I tried to count them but they kept jumping around. Of course afterwards looking at the pic they were no longer jumping very much and I could get an accurate count of 118. Not bad for one night!
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You do anything special with water conditions to get them to spawn? I have read that a change in temperature is the largest tigger for these guys. 118 is just amazing, good luck with them and I hope you have some extra tanks around for all thos corydoras fry.
fishboy20 wrote:You do anything special with water conditions to get them to spawn? I have read that a change in temperature is the largest tigger for these guys. 118 is just amazing, good luck with them and I hope you have some extra tanks around for all thos corydoras fry.
Nothing really special. My water here on L.I. NY is soft and 7 out of the tap. I was prepared to add some rainwater as that has helped me with other species but did'nt have to. A few things seemed to work-one was just having a dedicated tank. They spawned once in their previous community tank but started to spawn daily as soon as they were alone. The other thing that might play a role was the makeup of the tank. One of my club members told me that she had set up a sterbai tank with lots of wood and lots of sponge filters. She had regularr breeding and even saw some babies making it to size that were born in the tank without any intervention. I didn't use sponge but did add plenty of wood and plants with a Flora-base substrate. For filtation I used a biowheel hanger and also a hang-on canister filter for current and extra filtation. One of the side benifits of all the wood and plants is that some of the eggs that I didn't collect did hatchout and I currently have either 4 or 5 half inch to 1inch little guys swimming with the parents.
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