#howtobreed #breedingcories #corydorascatfish A few tips on how I breed Cory Catfish in a community tank environment. A few options for Cory eggs and fry.
great video Daniel.....we've got babies popping out all over with Spring in the air....vids coming up as usual....our fish and turtles are loving this lockdown .....have a great weekend with your family and your fish......
I did watch this vid a couple of years ago, now that its spawning season again for us in Australia, I watched again and remembered everything you said 2 years ago, everytime you said 'we bit' I remembered it was you and giggled, loved it, thanks Dan, later late layereee
Bloomin heck mate ,,,, wow a great video ,, now im going to be proper eagle eyed out for my cory eggs , I got Panda corys ,, so glad i have an aquaurium and being indoors ,,, Stay safe and well ....... Thank you ..
Oh thank you very much. You please stay safe also. Donnie from New York Gold put out a similar video at the same time I did. He managed to harvest many more eggs and his video is very good so it may interest you also. Here's the link if you are interested: ruclips.net/video/Grl55nflOl4/видео.html
I am a believer in water flow right from the start. The breeding boxes with an air driven water supply give continuous water changes. I have also been deliberately using very established dirty algae covered breeding boxes with a ton of old leaf litter old rocks and shrimp etc and getting very acceptable hatch rates . I have not tried a sterile container at the same time as a cross reference .
Sounds like a solid method to me bud. I have the Marina hang on breeder box that I love. I was thinking about casual hobbyists who wouldn't have those kind of things around and found they have eggs when I put this together. Saying that, as with so many things in our hobby there are often many ways of doing things and it is super interesting to experiment with each and see what works best or that we like best. Donnie from New York Gold put out a Cory breeding video same time as me that's really good and more in line with your method. I'll give you the link as it might interest you: ruclips.net/video/Grl55nflOl4/видео.html
This is super informative . I have been researching and wanting to breed Corydoras for a while . When I finally do I will use your techniques for hopefully success 👍🏼🐟😀
Perfect video. Thank you very much. I have couple of questions to address. - What is the best temp. for the babies? - What is the proper size to add babies to the main tank?
Thanks very much for the feedback. Donnie from NY Gold also has a good video on breeding them. I'll drop the link to it below in case it's useful to you. ruclips.net/video/Grl55nflOl4/видео.html
Here’s my secret for Corie breading in a show tank. I keep a 3 in wide strip of lava rock in the back of the tank. I get tons of Corie baby’s that make it.
My albino pair ( and now a bronze male who came with a new tank ) are resulting in eggs every seven days! But I’m buggered if I can keep them alive past four weeks after hatching...get a few weeks in then they just start dying 😞
Oh I'm sorry to hear that. Just in terms of suggestions to try to help make sure your water is kept clean and they are eating enough. Small often feedings is better for fry so small amounts of your chosen fry food four times a day is ideal if that's possible and removing any uneaten food after a while if you can. You can syphon out uneaten food with a piece of air tube so you can be careful what you are removing. Also I find giving them plenty of moss helps. They can graze on micro organisms from within it and use it for cover. It helps maintain the water quality too. I hope that is some help to you.
Generally in a community tank most eggs will get picked off either through predation or curiosity although some may scrape through. Best to remove them to another tank/breeder box or net/takeaway container/etc until they hatch and put on a bit of size if you're wanting to guarantee success.
@@DanielKeepingFish I am planning on keeping the 4 fish I metioned above together; Corydoras, guppies, neon tetras and a honey gourami together. Will that work out?
Super appreciate the visual walkthrough of the entire process- from cory parents, to separating the egg within the main tank, to fry in the nursery mesh, to baby cory housing upgrade, and then back to main tank. Thanks for the info
I can't believe you put this video out!!!!! I just finished a video on breeding Cory's and I'm uploading it as I type. Great video Dan I wish you would have posted it a week ago. LoL Well Done M8👍
Haha, great minds mate. You have a few more eggs to play with than me bud. My Whiteclouds don't leave me any. We've gone about our videos completely differently anyway. Goes to show one of the great things I've always said about this hobby is there's often a few ways of going about something and it's fun finding out which method we like best. If anyone shows an interest in raising Cories in the comments I'll drop your link for them too.
We also just got done making a video on breeding Cory's hahahaha just kidding....great video we will be checking out yours as well dude....everybody have a great weekend with your families and your fish....
Dear Daniel: I'm very impressed with this video. You took the time to give us a detailed and informative progression from breeding corydoras to returning juveniles to the main tank. Getting our, aquatic pets to reproduce is quite satisfying and indicates we have succeeded in keeping them healthy and happy. What do you offer corydoras fry as a first food? Please advise. All my best, Sincerely, E. J. Bringar
Thanks E.J. I normally off baby brine shrimp and microworns at first. Plus I give them moss to graze on. I'm sure they'll find microorganisms to eat within it plus it offers them security. Kind regards bud. Daniel.
Dear Daniel: I’ve been struggling to keep white cloud fry alive for some time. I recently purchased vinegar eels. Last Thursday, I noticed a free-swimming white cloud fry in my, 10-gallon bedroom tank (where I currently have 7 adults). I transferred the fry to the 10-gallon, cherry shrimp tank I recently set up from substrate, décor, plants and water in my, 29-gallon tank (which sprang a leak and had to be trashed). Since then, I’ve offered vinegar eels to the single fry, each day. It was still doing fine, as of last night. I believe it finds other, minute organisms to consume. ruclips.net/video/Mtk5MESBYfM/видео.html Perhaps I’ll give microworms a go, at some point. I hear that they are smaller and more nutritious than vinegar eels (though more trouble to culture). Thank you for your, continued correspondence and encouragement. Sincerely, Brinegar
@@ejbrinegar both are good I think E.J. I wouldn't be put off by thinking Micro Worm are hard to culture if you're considering it they're aren't: ruclips.net/video/Bnou4-teuVk/видео.html
My Cory Pandas bred just naturally. One day I noticed 3 babies about 1cm long in the tank. I will keep an eye out for eggs now I know what to look for.
I love your voice it sounds like jack sparrow from pirates of the Caribbean i just got a Albino Cory catfish and I only bought one but then when I got home I did research and it turns out they need more than one to be happy and I didn’t know that they actually needed food I thought they just ate the dirt on the bottom so pet stores obviously don’t give enough information so I’m buying more corys and sand and food for them
Ah thanks very much. Yes they're socialable wee things and will appreciate a family of their own kind to be with. They'll definitely thank you for a healthy diet but they'll help to keep the bottom of the tank clean when they are foraging by breaking waste into smaller pieces and throwing it up into the water column for the filter to pick up savy? 😜
I found a great way to water change the fry tub. Get a length of air line. Put an airstone on one end. Put the airstone in the tub and start a syphon into a jug. Keeps the fry completely safe and the water doesn't drain out too fast. Then put a sponge in the tub and poor the fresh water onto the sponge. That way, there's no current. Since I've been doing this, I'm getting hundreds of fry survive, including Corys, bettas, plecos and rams. 👍
such an awesome video! ive always loved cories and breeding them is something I really wanna experiment with in the future. this is such an interesting process and I love how you explained it!
Thanks very much mate, very kind of you for saying so. They are a great wee fish to experiment breeding with and there's a bit of scope for how best to do it and ways to tinker with till you find what's best for you so quite interesting. Donnie from Ney York Gold put out a nice video on it same time as me which is really good. I'll drop the link for if it would interest you: ruclips.net/video/Grl55nflOl4/видео.html
@@BodgieFromStraya If you want to breed them just put them in their own tank with a lot of plants and they can reproduce without fish eating them. Once you get the amount you want just put them back in the show tank
Well Guppies are livebarers so no eggs with them but after the Cory eggs hatch I'd say there pretty hard to see because they're so small so by the time you notice them they could be either haha.. Might need to watch them grow out to see what you have and enjoy the surprise hey.
Great video, really well explained and great footage, I've never had any eggs from mine, or if I have I'm sure the rummy nose ate them before I saw them. Keep up the great work and happy birthday for the other day, later later later
Thanks very much for your video! What a day! I got an offer of a really good job and my bronze corys were breeding today. Just noticed the eggs, attached to the thermometer on the front glass, one hour ago. Super exciting! Put the thermometer and the other eggs into the box net that can be attached to the front of the tank. Now have to wait and see what happens!🤗
Yeah that is a problem when we keep them with other fish no doubt. Best chance we have to harvest some eggs is to flick the lights on for a minute or two and see if we can grab some before the other fish notice them. 👍
Is this for all corys? I heard my green Cory won’t lay eggs unless I lower the water and temperature I’m not sure because there’s many information going around and none is the same
For a lot of Cories, a lot of fish for that matter flushing them with cooler water signifies rainfall so therefore abundance and can trigger breeding behaviour. I think that's where that comes from that you're talking about.
So it's easier to keep an eye on and observe them in the early stages. Also if using things like Indian Almond Leaves or Meth Blue we're only needing a wee bit to dose for the tub rather than for the whole tank you see.
Hello This si à good movie. Could you tell me please What is it of Fish ( the red fish at 27sec behind the corridoras) Thank you so much for Your answer. Sorry but I speek not fluantly english but I tried to do on my Best.
Hi mate, enjoy your videos, in fact one helped me decide to add pentazona barbs to my tank. I have a question about the cory fry, got 4 hatched a day or 2 ago. How long can i keep them in the takeaway container. I did have them in a hatchery briefly, but one escaped the small slits. Can i wait till they are too big to escape. Say a week or 2? I do have a 5 gallon tank i could set up for them?
my corys just laid eggs im not sure if there albino or gold laser ... i am using my new marina hang on breeder box its 2 litres hope this will work for them its the first time i am trying to raise them so any help would be appreciated
Great informational video mate. Sad that all the other fish eat the eggs. I'm lucky that that doesn't happen so I can get about 100 or more eggs at a time. Great work! Keep it up
Did you see Donnie put out a video on it at exactly the same time? His is well worth checking out too. He's gone a different way about it than me and is getting great results. Have a wee look: ruclips.net/video/Grl55nflOl4/видео.html
Great video it was Easier than I thought to make the egg hatch it's the second time mine have had eggs so I think the next time I will try doing what u have shown us in your vid and see if the survive
This is a great video bud, thanks for the info. Saw you had some white clouds. If you end up getting into breeding them post another vid, Id love to know how it turns out.
Thanks very much. Breeding, no problem, keeping the eggs till they hatch... I have 100 Whiteclouds in that 6ft tank with other tank mates. The eggs don't last too long. I have bred them before. Cooler temp, good food and feathery plants or moss all helps. The males chase the females into the plants to scatter and fertilise the eggs. Sometimes they eat the eggs and fry, sometimes they don't. To increase the chances of survival getting them to scatter over stones or marbles helps as the fry can develop down in between them in safety. I may try to do a Whitecloud breeding video at some point. I'm working on one about breeding Peacock Gudgeon just now. I have some eggs about to hatch so hopefully I can raise them safely and get a video out about that.
I add moss so they can graze on micro organisms from within it. I also feed micro worms and baby brine shrimp. I have a couple of videos on how to culture those which I'll put below in case it's useful to you. ruclips.net/video/Bnou4-teuVk/видео.html ruclips.net/video/qIz9vvsymVY/видео.html
Can do a wee bit aye. The male is normally chasing the female with his face in her abdomen but the tend to zip about pretty quickly while they're doing that. If that's what you're seeing might be worth looking out for eggs.
@@DanielKeepingFish Ive seen eggs, but tbh i was 100% certain they were Nerite snail eggs, now im thinking they came off the glass too easy as i found Nerite ones harder to remove. what i seen is what looked like 3 Corys fighting behind some rocks, i couldnt get a good look, ive seen it twice last couple of days.
If you give them plenty of moss they will graze on microorganisms within it. I also give them micro worms and baby brine shrimp until they are big enough to go onto other foods. You can finely crush flakes and so on but the live foods I feel are much better for them.
@@jerinraj8882 No worries. It's easy to culture some live foods. Here's a video about the micro worms. Below that I'll add one for the baby brine shrimp but there's many ways of doing it if you look online and on RUclips. ruclips.net/video/Bnou4-teuVk/видео.html ruclips.net/video/qIz9vvsymVY/видео.html
I see you got white clouds I feel like breeding and get a big big school going, but every video I see they behave differently....do you feel they directionally school more, or they just hang out together like guppies? maybe is something to do with number or water flow?
No definitely not directional schoolers. More hang out in a cloud together. They like to spawn in feathery stem plants like Limnophila Sessiliflora or you could try a spawning mop. They prefer cooler temps. Feed them good food and the likes of live food like baby brine shrimp and that will help get them in the mood.
Do you keep your cories on gravel only? They need sand to forage through. They filter the sand through their gills. They will damage their mouths when you keep them on gravel🙈 I love your explanation on the breeding though! I have the Venezuela Black too, most of the, are young still but i hope they will breed! I also have a group of Albino Cories. Awesome fish!
They really are great fish hey? I've kept lots and lots of them over the years. Sand is definitely best for them but gravel can be fine too as long as it's small, rounded, smooth gravel. The important thing is that there are no sharp edges or rough surfaces that they can damage their barbells on. That can lead to injury and infection but if the gravel is safe for them they can forage about in it without harm. Hope you get yours breeding too. Such a rewarding experience. Enjoy your Cories!
Have you ever seen an egg get stuck to your cory? I also have sterbi and I've seen them breed several times and I've even tried raising the fry. But I have never seen an egg stuck to any of the fish. My female has what looks like an egg stuck to her face this morning......
I'm sure it could happen, they're pretty active so they could nudge into a egg and get it stuck to them I suppose. Just make sure it's not something more nasty like a fungal infection or ich. Hope not and it's just a random face egg!
This is a great, short and fully packed with the essentials vid, great upload. I had Sterbai’s spawn recently. I followed your guidance (apart from the meth blue or almond leaves). Out of about 20 eggs after 3 days I had 6 looking great for hatching but checking them for a morning water change. no movement in some of the eggs and 4/5 out or partially out and not moving at all, is that usual during hatching? I have a feeling that perhaps the air stone pump pressure was too high and upset the eggs too much or maybe it’s just Mother Nature. The danios would have eaten these in the community tank if I hadn’t intervened but still a tad disappointed that not even one seems to have made it... 😏. Any guidance greatly appreciated
Yeah I wouldn't be expecting them too move too much at that stage or even when they first hatch. They'll be putting all the energy they can into developing and growing. I hope that's what you're seeing from your description I think it is. Hopefully you'll raise a few fry out of that batch then and it'll give you a bit more experience and confidence for the next round. So exciting raising them. Hope it's working out for you and the video was helpful.
Cheers, your video was super helpful and best I have found on the subject. Not sure how long to leave them in the tub after they have hatched before going to a breeder box or grow out tank. 2 of the fry survived and they laid more eggs. Decided to move them (new eggs and the 2 surviving fry) to a half filled 30L with a well established boys SF100 small sponge filter and a little java moss. Second batch eggs stuck to the java moss and fungi grew on them... all goners, a rookie mistake I will stick to your idea for hatching (air stone only, water changes will probs help). I changed out the java moss in the grow out for 3 small moss balls. On a water change. 3rd batch of eggs in the community (I have decided to take them out as soon as I notice as the Zebra danios (which are being removed from show tank after newer fish pass quarantine) eat them. I’d rather get 10 eggs than them lay 30 but I get none. On the 3rd batch egg hunt I found 2 mature eggs (from the second batch) so maybe they shall survive even though I massacred their compadres with a java moss attempt. Doing about a litre daily water changes on the grow out for the fry. And feeding baby brine and hikari first bites. Sorry for the long message, I nearly ordered some Venezuelan blacks but my sterbais starting T-ing (I got 5 really young, only 2 perfect specimens, one ok and 2 have deformities very small and fins aren’t fully formed) love the Sterbais. Thanks again for the help great content, Subbed and great content keep it up
Sorry I just saw your reply there. Yes that's what it's all about, tinkering and seeing what works best, that's one of the best things about the hobby for me. One of the great things also is there are often many different ways of doing things and we all find our own favorites and wee hacks we pick up as we go. Good luck with your breeding. Have fun with it!
Daniel Keeping Fish cheer buddy and thank for the encouragement, fingers crossed... I dropped the fry into a netted breeder box back in the display (heater broke on the grow out) and they slipped right through 😬... maybe they survive in the display tank. 🤞😁
Do neon tetras eat the eggs? I figured their mouths would be too small but now I'm starting to wonder.. Put them in there because i hoped it would calm the corydoras a bit
Well they eat their own eggs which admittedly are smaller but I'm sure they'll nip at the Cory eggs to see what they taste like. Best thing you can do (apart from separating them) is to check for the eggs first thing in the morning when the Tetra will have been resting, before they really begin stirring and moving around.
I just found 2 little peppered Cory babies in my tank. I’ve had 3 adults in my tank for about 3 years and I’ve never tried to remove the eggs when I’ve seen them I guess all the parameters of my tank lined up for them to hatch and survive. So excited to have a 2nd generation! I also have 3 long fin pandas in my tank, I’d love them to do the same!
Oh that's fantastic, no wonder you're excited. Yeah sometimes they can make it if left to themselves particularly if there isn't anything likely to eat them. Enjoy watching your babies grow!
I bred my bronze corydoras by accident...ended up with a lot of babies. Im having issues breeding my c. atroperonatus (Fairy corydora) though. Ive been watching lots of breeding videos to see if maybe there is something else I can do to get them to spawn....a difficult species for me to breed for sure
Don't EVER use a breeding net. The fry will get trapped and die. Stick with the hard-sided container while you set up a grow-out tank with seasoned filter and seasoned water. If you pay attention, (or put a breeding mop in the tank) you will be able to collect 30 - 100 eggs - not just ONE.
That is a shame mate. There's a few fish that we can't get here and I'd really like so I know what you mean. Keep your eye out bud, hopefully you'll spot some soon.
Yeah you can with the net kind for sure. I would worry they would slip through the gaps of the plastic one. The food tub tip is for people who might not have a breeder box on hand until they can get one. Donnie from New York Gold also recently put out a very good video on the same subject. Well worth a look: ruclips.net/video/Grl55nflOl4/видео.html
Any plants that they will not easily uproot when they are foraging about really. They enjoy broad leaved plants like Red Tiger Lotus to shelter under and chill out. I find most Cories will reach a good size between 7-10 months.
@@DanielKeepingFish my Cory cat fish is two year old from the time that I bought , and it is still 1.5 inch , was wondering since it’s life is 20 years , May be it grow big after 10 years or something.
@@thankYouN there are Pygmy Corydoras available, perhaps that's what you have? Also I'd say the life expectancy for Cories is closer to five years than twenty bud.
Thank you very much mate. Donnie from New York Gold put one out exact same time as me. It's really good. Here's the link if you haven't seen it already: ruclips.net/video/Grl55nflOl4/видео.html
@@DanielKeepingFish Also you dint show that pride was king and you could breed a million black cories on the time you were filming, but you only had few eggs and a single survivor, kept doing it and because of this, I think people appreciate you more! By the way, I usually scoop out close to 100 Ven Black eggs at one time but only very few survivors, I think it reflects on the price of these fish
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Nice video mate and growing babies inside the main tank by separating them in a container is the best approach in my opinion.
Yeah definitely gives them the best chance.
Thanks very much bud.
great video Daniel.....we've got babies popping out all over with Spring in the air....vids coming up as usual....our fish and turtles are loving this lockdown .....have a great weekend with your family and your fish......
Thanks a lot boys. Good to here something positive at this time but no less than I would expect from you guys. Hope you are well and staying safe.
Daniel Keeping Fish
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Just a wee bit of everything 😊Useful information but his voice is so cute.
I did watch this vid a couple of years ago, now that its spawning season again for us in Australia, I watched again and remembered everything you said 2 years ago, everytime you said 'we bit' I remembered it was you and giggled, loved it, thanks Dan, later late layereee
Haha.. cheers Clint. Symptom of moving up here to Scotland I'm afraid. After many years I've kept my accent but wee phrases have stuck haha..
oh boy! this video has been my saviour hahaha, with my first batch of cories growing up ive constantly been reffering back to this vid!
Cheers Bodgie thanks a lot. Real glad it helped out then bud.
Bloomin heck mate ,,,, wow a great video ,, now im going to be proper eagle eyed out for my cory eggs , I got Panda corys ,,
so glad i have an aquaurium and being indoors ,,, Stay safe and well ....... Thank you ..
Oh thank you very much.
You please stay safe also.
Donnie from New York Gold put out a similar video at the same time I did. He managed to harvest many more eggs and his video is very good so it may interest you also. Here's the link if you are interested:
ruclips.net/video/Grl55nflOl4/видео.html
I am a believer in water flow right from the start. The breeding boxes with an air driven water supply give continuous water changes. I have also been deliberately using very established dirty algae covered breeding boxes with a ton of old leaf litter old rocks and shrimp etc and getting very acceptable hatch rates . I have not tried a sterile container at the same time as a cross reference .
Sounds like a solid method to me bud. I have the Marina hang on breeder box that I love. I was thinking about casual hobbyists who wouldn't have those kind of things around and found they have eggs when I put this together.
Saying that, as with so many things in our hobby there are often many ways of doing things and it is super interesting to experiment with each and see what works best or that we like best.
Donnie from New York Gold put out a Cory breeding video same time as me that's really good and more in line with your method. I'll give you the link as it might interest you:
ruclips.net/video/Grl55nflOl4/видео.html
This is super informative . I have been researching and wanting to breed Corydoras for a while . When I finally do I will use your techniques for hopefully success 👍🏼🐟😀
Love this video cant stop watching it
Thank you very much bud.
Perfect video. Thank you very much.
I have couple of questions to address.
- What is the best temp. for the babies?
- What is the proper size to add babies to the main tank?
Thank you, I was real tiered of bull crap from other videos with just blabbering and no info
Thanks very much for the feedback.
Donnie from NY Gold also has a good video on breeding them. I'll drop the link to it below in case it's useful to you.
ruclips.net/video/Grl55nflOl4/видео.html
Here’s my secret for Corie breading in a show tank. I keep a 3 in wide strip of lava rock in the back of the tank. I get tons of Corie baby’s that make it.
That's a great idea! Love it.
Thank you for the tip.
Coarse filter sponge works too. I had platy fry hiding in that.
Appreciate the video great stuff! Really helped me
No worries Gabriel. Glad it was useful.
My albino pair ( and now a bronze male who came with a new tank ) are resulting in eggs every seven days! But I’m buggered if I can keep them alive past four weeks after hatching...get a few weeks in then they just start dying 😞
Oh I'm sorry to hear that.
Just in terms of suggestions to try to help make sure your water is kept clean and they are eating enough. Small often feedings is better for fry so small amounts of your chosen fry food four times a day is ideal if that's possible and removing any uneaten food after a while if you can. You can syphon out uneaten food with a piece of air tube so you can be careful what you are removing.
Also I find giving them plenty of moss helps. They can graze on micro organisms from within it and use it for cover. It helps maintain the water quality too.
I hope that is some help to you.
Fantastic 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thanks HPS.
I have a qustion: will other fish like guppies, tetras or gouramis eat the eggs?
Generally in a community tank most eggs will get picked off either through predation or curiosity although some may scrape through. Best to remove them to another tank/breeder box or net/takeaway container/etc until they hatch and put on a bit of size if you're wanting to guarantee success.
@@DanielKeepingFish I am planning on keeping the 4 fish I metioned above together; Corydoras, guppies, neon tetras and a honey gourami together. Will that work out?
Weeee bit challenging mate
What fish was that close to the Cory in the beginning of the video? A gold ram?
It's a male Apistogramma Macmasteri gold bud.
@@DanielKeepingFish are this harder to breed than cacuatuoides ??
Also what’s the minimum age of the corydoras to start reproducing?
@@miguelcruz7673 generally speaking the same a Cacutuoides I would say.
I find it's best to wait until Cories are about 2.5 inches, about a year.
@@DanielKeepingFish thank you!!
sir. is it ok to put shrimp inside together with the eggs?
I've done it with Cheery Shrimp. Not sure I'd trust Amanos with the eggs.
How long will it take for one to get about about a half inch didn't even know they layed eggs in my tank
Not long at all. Two or three weeks if they're fed well.
What is the ideal temperature of water breeding
These are temperate. I'd say between 22-24c, 71.5-75f.
Cory's are my absolute favourite, however even with seeing courting behaviour, I've never seen eggs or fry.
Best bet is to check when you first wake up in the morning. Check all the surfaces; glass, plants, scape, etc.
Hope you find some. 🤞
Super appreciate the visual walkthrough of the entire process- from cory parents, to separating the egg within the main tank, to fry in the nursery mesh, to baby cory housing upgrade, and then back to main tank. Thanks for the info
No worries Annie. Hope it was useful.
Excellent footage, all the fish in this tank look beautiful
Thanks very much bud. Yeah I spend a lot of time in front of this tank.
Man, I got to wee now... 15 times you said it! :D
Thanks though for the tips/ info.
Haha, problem with living in Scotland. Far too many wees.
I can't believe you put this video out!!!!! I just finished a video on breeding Cory's and I'm uploading it as I type. Great video Dan I wish you would have posted it a week ago. LoL Well Done M8👍
Haha, great minds mate.
You have a few more eggs to play with than me bud. My Whiteclouds don't leave me any.
We've gone about our videos completely differently anyway. Goes to show one of the great things I've always said about this hobby is there's often a few ways of going about something and it's fun finding out which method we like best.
If anyone shows an interest in raising Cories in the comments I'll drop your link for them too.
We also just got done making a video on breeding Cory's hahahaha just kidding....great video we will be checking out yours as well dude....everybody have a great weekend with your families and your fish....
Dear Daniel:
I'm very impressed with this video. You took the time to give us a detailed and informative progression from breeding corydoras to returning juveniles to the main tank. Getting our, aquatic pets to reproduce is quite satisfying and indicates we have succeeded in keeping them healthy and happy.
What do you offer corydoras fry as a first food?
Please advise.
All my best,
Sincerely,
E. J. Bringar
Thanks E.J.
I normally off baby brine shrimp and microworns at first. Plus I give them moss to graze on. I'm sure they'll find microorganisms to eat within it plus it offers them security.
Kind regards bud.
Daniel.
Dear Daniel:
I’ve been struggling to keep white cloud fry alive for some time. I recently purchased vinegar eels. Last Thursday, I noticed a free-swimming white cloud fry in my, 10-gallon bedroom tank (where I currently have 7 adults). I transferred the fry to the 10-gallon, cherry shrimp tank I recently set up from substrate, décor, plants and water in my, 29-gallon tank (which sprang a leak and had to be trashed). Since then, I’ve offered vinegar eels to the single fry, each day. It was still doing fine, as of last night. I believe it finds other, minute organisms to consume.
ruclips.net/video/Mtk5MESBYfM/видео.html
Perhaps I’ll give microworms a go, at some point. I hear that they are smaller and more nutritious than vinegar eels (though more trouble to culture).
Thank you for your, continued correspondence and encouragement.
Sincerely,
Brinegar
@@ejbrinegar both are good I think E.J. I wouldn't be put off by thinking Micro Worm are hard to culture if you're considering it they're aren't: ruclips.net/video/Bnou4-teuVk/видео.html
My Cory Pandas bred just naturally. One day I noticed 3 babies about 1cm long in the tank. I will keep an eye out for eggs now I know what to look for.
So cool when that happens, finding unexpected babies like that. Congratulations.
I love your voice it sounds like jack sparrow from pirates of the Caribbean i just got a Albino Cory catfish and I only bought one but then when I got home I did research and it turns out they need more than one to be happy and I didn’t know that they actually needed food I thought they just ate the dirt on the bottom so pet stores obviously don’t give enough information so I’m buying more corys and sand and food for them
Ah thanks very much.
Yes they're socialable wee things and will appreciate a family of their own kind to be with.
They'll definitely thank you for a healthy diet but they'll help to keep the bottom of the tank clean when they are foraging by breaking waste into smaller pieces and throwing it up into the water column for the filter to pick up savy? 😜
Daniel Keeping Fish what’s savy?
I found a great way to water change the fry tub.
Get a length of air line.
Put an airstone on one end.
Put the airstone in the tub and start a syphon into a jug.
Keeps the fry completely safe and the water doesn't drain out too fast.
Then put a sponge in the tub and poor the fresh water onto the sponge. That way, there's no current.
Since I've been doing this, I'm getting hundreds of fry survive, including Corys, bettas, plecos and rams. 👍
That's a great tip. Thanks for sharing it with us. 👍
such an awesome video! ive always loved cories and breeding them is something I really wanna experiment with in the future. this is such an interesting process and I love how you explained it!
Thanks very much mate, very kind of you for saying so.
They are a great wee fish to experiment breeding with and there's a bit of scope for how best to do it and ways to tinker with till you find what's best for you so quite interesting.
Donnie from Ney York Gold put out a nice video on it same time as me which is really good. I'll drop the link for if it would interest you:
ruclips.net/video/Grl55nflOl4/видео.html
@@DanielKeepingFish thankyou! ill make sure to check it out! love your work
@@BodgieFromStraya If you want to breed them just put them in their own tank with a lot of plants and they can reproduce without fish eating them. Once you get the amount you want just put them back in the show tank
@@vivaeuropa thank you tonnes for the tips! i actually have tonnes of bronze corydora fry now hahah!!!
few drops of methylene blue might assist the hatch rate
Definately mate.
I have guppies with mine. Wonder if it's easy to confuse the 2 "babies" at first. But I have yet to see eggs. 😔
Well Guppies are livebarers so no eggs with them but after the Cory eggs hatch I'd say there pretty hard to see because they're so small so by the time you notice them they could be either haha..
Might need to watch them grow out to see what you have and enjoy the surprise hey.
Excellent informative video Brother ! Even Donny made a video about Cory's today !👍😂
What a coincidence !!!!👍🤭
Haha I know right? We uploaded them within a few minutes of each other too. Donnie's video is really great.
Great video, really well explained and great footage, I've never had any eggs from mine, or if I have I'm sure the rummy nose ate them before I saw them.
Keep up the great work and happy birthday for the other day, later later later
Thank you very much dude.
Yeah I don't often manage to catch the eggs in time. Whitecloud Creek normally owns them first. 😜
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I think NYGOLD sent you some eggs stuck on his sticker 🤣 Great job Sir Daniel 🍔
Haha you could be right there mate. Donnie has so many eggs they're spilling out all over the place. 🥚💪😜💙
Thanks very much for your video!
What a day! I got an offer of a really good job and my bronze corys were breeding today. Just noticed the eggs, attached to the thermometer on the front glass, one hour ago. Super exciting! Put the thermometer and the other eggs into the box net that can be attached to the front of the tank.
Now have to wait and see what happens!🤗
Hey that is a great day mate. Always good to here great news like that.
Hope it continues into your weekend!
I have plecos and I think they have been eating my eggs😔
Yeah that is a problem when we keep them with other fish no doubt. Best chance we have to harvest some eggs is to flick the lights on for a minute or two and see if we can grab some before the other fish notice them. 👍
Is this for all corys? I heard my green Cory won’t lay eggs unless I lower the water and temperature I’m not sure because there’s many information going around and none is the same
For a lot of Cories, a lot of fish for that matter flushing them with cooler water signifies rainfall so therefore abundance and can trigger breeding behaviour. I think that's where that comes from that you're talking about.
May I ask, why you don't put the eggs in net breeder from the begging and you choose to use a plastic container.?
So it's easier to keep an eye on and observe them in the early stages. Also if using things like Indian Almond Leaves or Meth Blue we're only needing a wee bit to dose for the tub rather than for the whole tank you see.
@@DanielKeepingFish understood.appreactiated for your fast response.
Hello
This si à good movie. Could you tell me please What is it of Fish ( the red fish at 27sec behind the corridoras)
Thank you so much for Your answer.
Sorry but I speek not fluantly english but I tried to do on my Best.
Your English is fine, I can understand you know problem. I think it is the Apistogramma Macmasteri Gold you mean. 👍
Thank you for your answer
@@lionelwilley7910 no worries Lionel.
Hi mate, enjoy your videos, in fact one helped me decide to add pentazona barbs to my tank. I have a question about the cory fry, got 4 hatched a day or 2 ago. How long can i keep them in the takeaway container. I did have them in a hatchery briefly, but one escaped the small slits. Can i wait till they are too big to escape. Say a week or 2? I do have a 5 gallon tank i could set up for them?
my corys just laid eggs im not sure if there albino or gold laser ... i am using my new marina hang on breeder box its 2 litres hope this will work for them its the first time i am trying to raise them so any help would be appreciated
Wow so
Cute
Coredory
Catfish
So beautiful colors fish
I like to feed
Them too
Thanks. Yeah I really like them too.
Great informational video mate. Sad that all the other fish eat the eggs. I'm lucky that that doesn't happen so I can get about 100 or more eggs at a time. Great work! Keep it up
Sorry mate. Don't know how I missed this but just seen it there.
Thanks very much for the encouragement bud. 👍
These are schultzi blacks btw nice video
Yes I have seen them called that also. Embarrassingly I'm not 100% sure how to pronounce that just now and wouldn't want to make a mess of it.
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater. My english wife and I had a good chuckle at that.
Haha, glad it wasn't wasted. 👍
@@DanielKeepingFish I think if it was said without an English accent, it would not have been effective.
What type of cichlid is that at 00:26 so beautiful !
That is a male Apistogramma Macmasteri Gold. Very similar to the Veijita Gold. Look out for them! Great wee fish.
Just use your finger instead of the card.
The card tends to be less clumsy than my fingers haha...
Those are some stunning cories mate great info
I know right? Probably my favourite Cory. They're temperate fish, I believe they were created in Germany. Do you get them over there yet?
cool will remember this next time my corys lay eggs thanks Daniel great info.
Did you see Donnie put out a video on it at exactly the same time? His is well worth checking out too. He's gone a different way about it than me and is getting great results. Have a wee look:
ruclips.net/video/Grl55nflOl4/видео.html
“A wee bit”
Drinking game idea: Down a shooter each time he says "wee bit" in this video.
Haha.. better not. Might end up wasted. I live in Scotland and I am aware I do that but not how frequently maybe.
@@DanielKeepingFish It's all good, no problem!
Thanks for the info👍🏽
No worries EAA. 👍
Great video it was Easier than I thought to make the egg hatch it's the second time mine have had eggs so I think the next time I will try doing what u have shown us in your vid and see if the survive
This is a great video bud, thanks for the info. Saw you had some white clouds. If you end up getting into breeding them post another vid, Id love to know how it turns out.
Thanks very much.
Breeding, no problem, keeping the eggs till they hatch... I have 100 Whiteclouds in that 6ft tank with other tank mates. The eggs don't last too long.
I have bred them before. Cooler temp, good food and feathery plants or moss all helps. The males chase the females into the plants to scatter and fertilise the eggs. Sometimes they eat the eggs and fry, sometimes they don't. To increase the chances of survival getting them to scatter over stones or marbles helps as the fry can develop down in between them in safety.
I may try to do a Whitecloud breeding video at some point. I'm working on one about breeding Peacock Gudgeon just now. I have some eggs about to hatch so hopefully I can raise them safely and get a video out about that.
what are you feeding them for their first feeding
I add moss so they can graze on micro organisms from within it. I also feed micro worms and baby brine shrimp. I have a couple of videos on how to culture those which I'll put below in case it's useful to you.
ruclips.net/video/Bnou4-teuVk/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/qIz9vvsymVY/видео.html
Thank you for this video!
No worries Christina. Hope it was useful.
Thanks this was really helpful i subscribed
Ah cool, glad it was useful then. 👍
0:24 what is that orange and white fish?
That is a male Apistogramma Macmasterii Gold. Very similar to Apistogramma Viejita. Real nice fish.
Does it look like they are fighting when spawning?
Can do a wee bit aye. The male is normally chasing the female with his face in her abdomen but the tend to zip about pretty quickly while they're doing that. If that's what you're seeing might be worth looking out for eggs.
@@DanielKeepingFish Ive seen eggs, but tbh i was 100% certain they were Nerite snail eggs, now im thinking they came off the glass too easy as i found Nerite ones harder to remove.
what i seen is what looked like 3 Corys fighting behind some rocks, i couldnt get a good look, ive seen it twice last couple of days.
what can we feed the babiesss
If you give them plenty of moss they will graze on microorganisms within it. I also give them micro worms and baby brine shrimp until they are big enough to go onto other foods. You can finely crush flakes and so on but the live foods I feel are much better for them.
@@DanielKeepingFish ok thank you
@@jerinraj8882 No worries. It's easy to culture some live foods. Here's a video about the micro worms. Below that I'll add one for the baby brine shrimp but there's many ways of doing it if you look online and on RUclips.
ruclips.net/video/Bnou4-teuVk/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/qIz9vvsymVY/видео.html
I see you got white clouds I feel like breeding and get a big big school going, but every video I see they behave differently....do you feel they directionally school more, or they just hang out together like guppies? maybe is something to do with number or water flow?
No definitely not directional schoolers. More hang out in a cloud together.
They like to spawn in feathery stem plants like Limnophila Sessiliflora or you could try a spawning mop. They prefer cooler temps. Feed them good food and the likes of live food like baby brine shrimp and that will help get them in the mood.
Do you keep your cories on gravel only? They need sand to forage through. They filter the sand through their gills. They will damage their mouths when you keep them on gravel🙈 I love your explanation on the breeding though! I have the Venezuela Black too, most of the, are young still but i hope they will breed! I also have a group of Albino Cories. Awesome fish!
They really are great fish hey?
I've kept lots and lots of them over the years. Sand is definitely best for them but gravel can be fine too as long as it's small, rounded, smooth gravel. The important thing is that there are no sharp edges or rough surfaces that they can damage their barbells on. That can lead to injury and infection but if the gravel is safe for them they can forage about in it without harm.
Hope you get yours breeding too. Such a rewarding experience. Enjoy your Cories!
Have you ever seen an egg get stuck to your cory? I also have sterbi and I've seen them breed several times and I've even tried raising the fry. But I have never seen an egg stuck to any of the fish. My female has what looks like an egg stuck to her face this morning......
I'm sure it could happen, they're pretty active so they could nudge into a egg and get it stuck to them I suppose.
Just make sure it's not something more nasty like a fungal infection or ich.
Hope not and it's just a random face egg!
This is a great, short and fully packed with the essentials vid, great upload. I had Sterbai’s spawn recently. I followed your guidance (apart from the meth blue or almond leaves). Out of about 20 eggs after 3 days I had 6 looking great for hatching but checking them for a morning water change. no movement in some of the eggs and 4/5 out or partially out and not moving at all, is that usual during hatching? I have a feeling that perhaps the air stone pump pressure was too high and upset the eggs too much or maybe it’s just Mother Nature. The danios would have eaten these in the community tank if I hadn’t intervened but still a tad disappointed that not even one seems to have made it... 😏. Any guidance greatly appreciated
Yeah I wouldn't be expecting them too move too much at that stage or even when they first hatch. They'll be putting all the energy they can into developing and growing.
I hope that's what you're seeing from your description I think it is. Hopefully you'll raise a few fry out of that batch then and it'll give you a bit more experience and confidence for the next round. So exciting raising them. Hope it's working out for you and the video was helpful.
Cheers, your video was super helpful and best I have found on the subject. Not sure how long to leave them in the tub after they have hatched before going to a breeder box or grow out tank.
2 of the fry survived and they laid more eggs.
Decided to move them (new eggs and the 2 surviving fry) to a half filled 30L with a well established boys SF100 small sponge filter and a little java moss.
Second batch eggs stuck to the java moss and fungi grew on them... all goners, a rookie mistake I will stick to your idea for hatching (air stone only, water changes will probs help).
I changed out the java moss in the grow out for 3 small moss balls. On a water change.
3rd batch of eggs in the community (I have decided to take them out as soon as I notice as the Zebra danios (which are being removed from show tank after newer fish pass quarantine) eat them. I’d rather get 10 eggs than them lay 30 but I get none.
On the 3rd batch egg hunt I found 2 mature eggs (from the second batch) so maybe they shall survive even though I massacred their compadres with a java moss attempt.
Doing about a litre daily water changes on the grow out for the fry. And feeding baby brine and hikari first bites.
Sorry for the long message, I nearly ordered some Venezuelan blacks but my sterbais starting T-ing (I got 5 really young, only 2 perfect specimens, one ok and 2 have deformities very small and fins aren’t fully formed) love the Sterbais.
Thanks again for the help great content, Subbed and great content keep it up
Sorry I just saw your reply there.
Yes that's what it's all about, tinkering and seeing what works best, that's one of the best things about the hobby for me. One of the great things also is there are often many different ways of doing things and we all find our own favorites and wee hacks we pick up as we go.
Good luck with your breeding. Have fun with it!
Daniel Keeping Fish cheer buddy and thank for the encouragement, fingers crossed... I dropped the fry into a netted breeder box back in the display (heater broke on the grow out) and they slipped right through 😬... maybe they survive in the display tank. 🤞😁
Do neon tetras eat the eggs? I figured their mouths would be too small but now I'm starting to wonder.. Put them in there because i hoped it would calm the corydoras a bit
Well they eat their own eggs which admittedly are smaller but I'm sure they'll nip at the Cory eggs to see what they taste like.
Best thing you can do (apart from separating them) is to check for the eggs first thing in the morning when the Tetra will have been resting, before they really begin stirring and moving around.
So adorable the fry are!
I just found 2 little peppered Cory babies in my tank. I’ve had 3 adults in my tank for about 3 years and I’ve never tried to remove the eggs when I’ve seen them I guess all the parameters of my tank lined up for them to hatch and survive. So excited to have a 2nd generation! I also have 3 long fin pandas in my tank, I’d love them to do the same!
Oh that's fantastic, no wonder you're excited. Yeah sometimes they can make it if left to themselves particularly if there isn't anything likely to eat them. Enjoy watching your babies grow!
I bred my bronze corydoras by accident...ended up with a lot of babies. Im having issues breeding my c. atroperonatus (Fairy corydora) though. Ive been watching lots of breeding videos to see if maybe there is something else I can do to get them to spawn....a difficult species for me to breed for sure
Don't EVER use a breeding net. The fry will get trapped and die. Stick with the hard-sided container while you set up a grow-out tank with seasoned filter and seasoned water. If you pay attention, (or put a breeding mop in the tank) you will be able to collect 30 - 100 eggs - not just ONE.
What a nice guy and a really informative video. Thank you.
Ah thank you very much Natasha. Made me feel quite proud reading that. Hope you are enjoying the hobby.
Very cool easy to follow video. Thanks so much and hello from Vancouver Canada!
Wow so cute fish...new friend here...keep safe
Thank you. You please stay safe also.
amazing video .. great idea to use these containers ... always love the corydoras 👍🏻
Haha, had a wee incling you had a soft spot for Cories. 😜
i would say more like obsession😂
i really love these but in vietnam it so rare! so sad
That is a shame mate. There's a few fish that we can't get here and I'd really like so I know what you mean.
Keep your eye out bud, hopefully you'll spot some soon.
Nice video dan. I can't wait until mine get big enough to breed. 👍✌
Thanks Alex.
Yeah it's pretty cool breeding them. Different from live breeders obviously so rewarding in that respect.
@@DanielKeepingFish 👍
Why can't you just put the eggs into the breeder box directly?
Yeah you can with the net kind for sure. I would worry they would slip through the gaps of the plastic one.
The food tub tip is for people who might not have a breeder box on hand until they can get one.
Donnie from New York Gold also recently put out a very good video on the same subject. Well worth a look:
ruclips.net/video/Grl55nflOl4/видео.html
@@DanielKeepingFish thanks for the reply mate!
What plants are good for Cory catfish ? My fish are so tiny from 4 years , when will they grow
Any plants that they will not easily uproot when they are foraging about really. They enjoy broad leaved plants like Red Tiger Lotus to shelter under and chill out.
I find most Cories will reach a good size between 7-10 months.
@@DanielKeepingFish my Cory cat fish is two year old from the time that I bought , and it is still 1.5 inch , was wondering since it’s life is 20 years , May be it grow big after 10 years or something.
@@thankYouN there are Pygmy Corydoras available, perhaps that's what you have?
Also I'd say the life expectancy for Cories is closer to five years than twenty bud.
Nice video brother👍👍👍
Thank you very much mate.
Donnie from New York Gold put one out exact same time as me. It's really good.
Here's the link if you haven't seen it already:
ruclips.net/video/Grl55nflOl4/видео.html
What is that cichlid the red fish
They are Apistogramma Veijita Gold. Very close to Mcmasteri Gold which are probably easier to find.
Great guide!
Thank you very much.
Nice cory there cheers :D "D and super nice tank there, and Be Safe as well to ALL
the amount of effort you have for this one baby is everything 💕
Of course. Everyone counts. 👍
@@DanielKeepingFish Also you dint show that pride was king and you could breed a million black cories on the time you were filming, but you only had few eggs and a single survivor, kept doing it and because of this, I think people appreciate you more!
By the way, I usually scoop out close to 100 Ven Black eggs at one time but only very few survivors, I think it reflects on the price of these fish
Why don't you pronounce your T's?
Habit of folk from where I'm from. Forever getting told off for it though. 😆