breeding small catfish

huk chun chu · Post by **huk chun chu** » 18 Oct 2006, 16:36

I have 2 10 gal. tanks that are empty.The aquarium club I belong to has a breeders award program that I am involved with.What I would like to do is set up these 2 tanks to breed some of the smaller cats.Does anyone have any suggestions as to species & setups that would work in these tanks?

apistomaster · Post by **apistomaster** » 18 Oct 2006, 19:02

I have been successful using ten gallon tanks for spawning pairs of common bushy nose and several Corydoras species. The Panda Cory is a good choice because of it's small size, good looks, and the available fish are tank raised.

huk chun chu · Post by **huk chun chu** » 19 Oct 2006, 16:51

I should of mentioned it ,I am working on the advanced level in the breeders award program.In order to get there I must breed some other fish than either cory's or ancistrus.Sorry for not mentioning this.I was thinking of something along the line of:aspidoas paucirdiatus,brochis splendens,otocinclus species?,peckoltia vittata etc. Would any of these fish be viable ? If not what else might be a good choice?

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 19 Oct 2006, 16:55

Oto's aren't impossible to breed - there are some examples posted in threads here - but they are definitely way above the Ancistrus for example.

Brochis are also (apparently) not that easy to get breeding, there is a discussion just a few weeks back on that subject in the Callichtyidae forum, which has links to the Shane's World and Scotcat pages that report breding of them.

Don't know anything about Aspidoras breeding, so can't say on that one.

Peckoltia's I would class as teh easiest of the ones you mention. They are one step harder than the Ancistrus/Cory's that are considered amongst the easiest ones...

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huk chun chu · Post by **huk chun chu** » 19 Oct 2006, 17:07

I think if the peckoltia is the next step up from ancistus they would be a good one for me to try.Are they readilly availeable? Also what kind of setup do they require? Would the 10gal. work & should it be a bare tank or decorated in some way?

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 19 Oct 2006, 17:11

There are several Peckoltia breeding articles in "Shane's world". Read them...

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huk chun chu · Post by **huk chun chu** » 19 Oct 2006, 17:45

Thanks Mats. I keep forgeting about all the great articles in Shanes World. That is were I am going next.

Huk