PlanetCatfish.com

After various attempts over the past three years I have finally managed to spawn Corydoras concolor Now all I have to do is raise them. There are about 120, 2.2 mm diameter eggs all laid in a single spawning mop.

Ian

Congratulations on that one.

Your good news reminded me of something I was wondering about some time back. When visiting a friend, I saw a school of some 8-10 C. concolor. I've never seen a cory this active and fast swimming. Is this normal behaviour in C. concolor or did he just happen to have some hyper-active specimens ?

Beautiful fish BTW.

Congrats, Ian!

Truth be told, I honestly thought you've bred every known species of corydoras out there.......

Congrats!!





G.

Hi Ian,

Congrats!

Now all I have to do is raise them.

I bred the species several times too, but had at the beginning some serious problems making the eggs hatch. Maybe just because i never use any anti-fungi pharmaca like Acriflavin.
If i may give the master a hint ;) : If you encounter any problems: Try keeping the pH low (below 6.0). I had large problems making them hatch, and even the youngsters seemed to be very sensitive in high pH water. Low conductivity is also reccomended.

Just out of curiousity: What SL do your mature fish have?

Greetings,

Achim

Thanks for the comments guy's, To enduce spawning I had to use RO water and over a period of a couples of weeks reduced the conductivity from 450 down to 120, the pH is pretty stable at 6.8 - 7.0. I also a week ago added a layer of dried Oak leaves. Once the leaves had soaked and settled on the fine sand substrate the fish seemed to be a lot happier and more active than previously. I don't think they are any more active than other Cory's but then again I keep most of mine in shady conditions, which probably keeps them a little more subdued.

The two females are 50 mm sl. and the 3 males about 42-3 mm sl.

I'll keep you posted on the progress.

Ian

congrats ian.. great work on spawning the concolors.. i can't wait to get my hands on some of those cory's myself.. i hope u can raise them to adulthood.. keep up posted.

congrats.after all the corys you've bred it's hard to believe you still get exited over breeding another species.But I guess that's the truley great thing about breeding and raising fish it NEVER gets old. What's you'r next project??

C. macropterus is my ultimate goal at the moment. Then theree's the other thirty or so species I have that have so far been ellusive.

Ian

well a congrats is duely deserved for spawning them.. and i wish u the best of luck spawning your next species...

Hey Ian,

That's great news. All I can say is that if they were mine, they would have been in the bouillabaisse, long before 3 years had passed!

Keep up the great work.

Frank/Guppyman

Congratulations!!!! Do keep us posted on their developments.

Cheers,

Ian,

I've heard some murmurings about the true identify of this species. There appears to be a high backed, dome headed variety and a more snouty version which appears the more common. Is this an age / size thing are we looking at two species with different morphology but identical colouration?

Jools

Congrates!
Even though I have never heard of them!

Jools,

It may very well be an age thing, my females (4 years old) are a lot deeper and chunkier than the males of the same age. However I will do a little checkng and see if there is any merrit in the similar species theroy.

Ian

Ian,

congrats!! they are a cute cory... we have a few.. but nothing being really tried on the the breeding front at the moment...

Just curious... have you bred any/many of the long-nosed cories??

Congrads !!! I need to get my hands on some of them really like the concolors just never see them for sale but i know there is some online here and there.

Congrats! Keep us updated! Pictures will be a bonus!

I may get some fry shots dome this weekend.

Samurai, can yiu add your location to your pofile please

Ian