My experience with these has been, after they reach maturity and all display that black stripe under their bellies, they will lay eggs every day non stop. Males will chase after the females whenever they're not eating or taking a nap. These are sold very young. If you have trouble getting them to spawn even after using all Mark's tricks (strong flow, 25C, soft acidic water) your fish haven't reached maturity. I have these in a 60 litre species tank with a HOB filter and a sponge on the intake. 3mm gravel as substrate. Can verify they dont eat their eggs or the young.
Hey Mark. I used to watch all your videos 4-5 years ago and used many of your methods to breed fish. Starting 10 small tanks again and enjoying your videos once again. Thanks!!! Kevin. South Africa
One of the best explanations I've seen. Keeping these species with otocinclus and neocaridina shrimp. Added a power head for water flow and they're much more active.Thanks for sharing!
This is BRILLIANT footage! I've just noticed a few baby Pygmy's in my tank, and I have only had the adults for 2 mths...I was so surprised. This video is perfect, thank you!
bruv,i am so loving these breeding programmes,i can not begin to tell you how much i have learned from you,also still think that your palud is the best that i have ever seen,it looks stunning,absolutly stunning,all credit to you bruv..also thank very much for the updates on all the other fry ,,particularly the plecos..bruv if you continue to push out this this quality of videos,your views are gonna soar..the very best..love and peace to you and yours..xxx..
Years ago I’ve bred Neon Tetras, Guppies, Swordtails, and Mollies. I never had success with Catfish. Your tutorial has encouraged me to try again. I didn’t have the right setup back then. Thank you for sharing! Enjoyed watching!
Hey Mark, another excellent video, it amazes me how great you are with breeding fish and your DIY projects, you are the Jack of all trades and I look forward to seeing every video of yours great job 😉
Thank God for this video. This is the only video I've found for PYGMY Cory's. Mine have just laid and recently hatched and I've been at a lost for what to do for such micro fry. Than you so much!!!!
Excellent informative video, again! You really make everything you show very interesting. I would love to see you breed the Chili Rasbora (Boraras brigittae) at some point, I love those fish.
Nice to see your vids. I Breed many sorts of fish in my lifetime and quit 8 years ago. After seeing your vids i want to start again. Peace love and blessings from the Netherlands.
Hi mark, this is such an amazing footage! What is more amazing is that they're not afraid of your presence. Mine would dart straight back to their hiding spot as soon as there are movements outside the tank. Kinda sad to only be able to observe them from a distance. Thank you again for the vids and i wish you well in your future breeding projects.
@@scubageek17 Definitely sounds like a good idea but its currently fully stocked with cardinal tetras and otocinclus. Its ok though as long as they are healthy and thriving im good. Thank you for the suggestion!
@@kopichuchu My pygmies are my least shy cory, I think. My suggestion is to feed them something really good, such as frozen baby brine shrimp or daphnia, and park yourself right by the glass and don't move. They won't be able to resist coming for the food! If you did that several days in a row, or a few days a week, I'm sure they'd start to get used to your presence. 😊
I just got some Pygmy Coradoras this weekend. Fantastic to come across this video. Great stuff! Keep it up and can't wait to see the next video in this series. Definitely will be taking some RO water home tonight to drip into there tank :)
Got myself 11 new Albino corydoras catfish today, set up on a nice black fine gravel... hope to breed them when they get bigger. Giving them some frozen blood worms to fatten them up. with 2 small guppies, a heater, sponge filter, and some nice leafy plants. Unfortunately difficult to see if they are male and female, and took all of what was in LFS. Thanks for your videos! At least my fish is generally doing a lot better these days, after I moved them from outside into an insulated wendy house fish room. :) Love this hobby!!
Excellent video cheers, mate. got 9 of these little beauty's today :) got them in a heavily planted ta k with some botanicals to lower the pH for them :)
This was super helpful. I’ve been attempting to breed albino Cory cats and I have had a decent amount of luck, with 1 Cory from my 1st batch (hatched 2 months ago) and at least 30 from my second batch (hatched 2 weeks ago). I think I’m going to try what you did here with my albino Cory’s and hopefully I’ll have the same success you had
Good shots of C. pygmeus spawning. I never bred them but I used to breed C. hastatus by the hundreds every year in a permanent breeding colony setup which they happily shared with Cherry Shrimp. I used that same colony style breeding setup for C. habrosus but they were less productive. C. hastatus school well and aren't as shy as C. pygmeus usually are. I thought your technique for adding the RO water was pretty clever of you.
Thanks for all the great videos...... MARK! Keep up the great work..... Great Informative videos...... I will be trying some of your ways of breeding different fish. Rawleighman - Downunder Australia....
Amazing footage! If you look very closely (try slow motion playback) at 12:38 you can see the female clean off a piece of subwassertang and actually see the egg being deposited!
My pygmy corys have been breeding everyday for 3 weeks now. They are breeding in a community tank. In the beginning I moved the fry/eggs to another aquarium, but now I just leave the fry/eggs in the community tank :P Great video as usual :)
I had my first hatch of Cory spawn this evening. My first time with any fish. So excited. So far there are three and in the morning I hope to see more. I have the hatchery going so I will have food for them when they finish with the egg sack.
THANKS.....SO HAPPY,.... to hear, THAT these do not eat their eggs, or young. I've wanted some for a while now, BUT figured the EGGS would be so small, and hard to remove. SO, I'm setting up a TANK just for the pygmies. VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.
Thank's so much Mark, a really great interesting video. I'm going to give this a go. These are my favorite fish.They are so entertaining and pretty difficult to get hold of. I don't have access to RO water but do collect rainwater for use in the house and garden, so will use that. Living in South Wales the ph is only 6.8 so I don't need to change it much. First job get a sponge filter and cycle it. Again your videos are great, keep it up, you'll make fish keeper out of me yet.
Looked like she first deposited the received milt from her mouth onto the leaf where she then stuck the egg. Maybe either the milt is the adhesive that keeps the egg stuck to the leaf or the egg is very sticky and stays on its own. More investigation and extreme closeups are needed. SCIENCE! hee,hee. Thanks so much for these breeding videos. I will eventually have more space and plan on doing some selective breeding. I'll definitely be adding an RO water maker then too.
I love your videos Mark, always something different, and your enthusiasm is infective. Getting ready to breed some harlequins here, so any tips and tricks with them would be appreciated. Im assuming, they will be similar to the neons you bred, as they live in the same part of the world. But if not, at least Im learning. Love your work, keep breeding!
Hi Lynda. At tip for Harlequins use lots of plants as they lay the eggs on the underside of leaves ok. They don't scatter the eggs like neon's.Thanks for watching.👍😀
Great video! I have 4 tanks. 15 gallon each tank. Sterbai, Eaneus, Julii's, Schwartzi's. Somehow none of them are breeding. I have done everything I can do. Any tips? Thank you!
excellent vid , my water is 8.2 so i struggle with corys , get massive broods off pluchers , might try lowering with chemicals and give it a try cheers
Hi Mark, great video by the way as with all your others. Quick question if ok. Is the breeding process the same for corydoras habrosus as these pygmaeus? I've only got 6 and they're probably my most fun to watch in my community tank and currently they seem hard to come by. Sadly my Betta died recently so have an empty 38l tank which I could use to breed.
Hi Mark, thank you so much for this video! Just found your channel through this vid, and by the time I was halfway through, I had to hit subscribe! Would love some advice on how to clean substrate when you have pygmy fry in a tank! I'm so scared of accidentally sucking one up and not seeing it among the mulm and throwing it out... :-( Right now I move my hand across the area I'm ready to syphon, use a very small gravel cleaner so I can target areas (and move around the plants), then I go through a long, careful process of letting the bucket settle, checking for movement, disturbing it and checking for darting movements, emptying the bucket one jug at a time and looking carefully for any fry... it takes hours! I'm accidentally breeding them! Two year old 15g mature tank, HOB filter and heavily planted, lots of almond leaves etc. Substrate is a problem, it was my first tank so it had gravel - when I got pygmies, I removed half the gravel and added a fine sand beach at the front. Only temporary home since I have to move the tanks around soon and planning to move them to another long established tank with only sand substrate. (how I'm going to catch all the fry and move them, I don't know!) so it's like a gravel bed jungle at the back, with vallis, siamensis 53B and sessiliflora at the back, a slate cave and some driftwood, and crypts at the front, plus moss balls and a few other plants. Very hard to spot eggs among all that! I got a group of seven pygmies, store was having supply problems so planned to get more and bump the shoal to 12 or so when I could get more. Tank has a group of otocinclus and six male guppies too. When I move tanks, will move the male guppies and keep the otos and pygmies with another nano species like ember tetra or chili rasbora. Was planning to get more pygmies, but was stunned to see eggs on the glass one day! Hidden behind the vallis. I was already raising a bronze cory spawn from another tank, so I decided to let nature take it's course, only added an airstone near the eggs, blocked them off a little with driftwood, and added some more alder cones and almond leaves. I couldn't see any fry when the eggs had vanished, so figured the guppies ate the eggs and/or fry. But about a month later, saw two baby pygmies when doing a water change! They shot out of the plants while I was cleaning the substrate. They were a good size too, about a month or so old. I'm delighted they're happy enough to breed, and that fry survived in the tank without me hand raising them! I do feed a variety of small frozen, dried and live food, micro and banana worms, frozen cyclops, daphnia, rotifers etc. Today, spotted another fry! So tiny, it looks like an insect. Only just free swimming I think. I'm so scared I'm going to accidentally suck one up, but you know how gravel is, and how the almond leaves decay and leave bits everywhere - it really needs a good clean. Sorry for the long essay! I just love these little fish so much, and want to give them the best home I possibly can. Any tips would be so appreciated!
Adding comment about this - I just saw the pygmies spawning, including a female trying to place an egg on a leaf, but she dropped it. I just did a substrate clean on one half of the tank, and saw so many fry wriggle away and hide down in the gravel, making cleaning so difficult! Despite all the precautions in my above comment, I've rescued seven teeny tiny pygmy fry from the buckets. They camoflage so well among the pygmy poop and debris, can only spot them when they move. So scared to do more cleaning! But the gravel still needs to be cleaned to prevent bacterial infections. Halp!
Fantastic news about the babies! While the fry are young I wouldn't clean the the substrate because it will contain lots of micro life for them to feed off. Your obviously doing all the right things to get them to breed. Congratulations. 😀👍
@@MARKSAQUATICS Thank you so much! I've only been in the hobby for a little over two years, so I'm really happy that the bronze and pygmy cories are breeding so well, even though it was sooner than expected and caught me a bit off guard! The pygmies were not fully grown when I got them, guess they reached sexual maturity recently! I'm taking your advice not to clean the substrate while they have tiny fry, it's impossible to avoid them since they hide themselves down in the gravel. And as you say, they will find micro organisms there. I'll just remove water from the surface for weekly water changes for now. I don't know when I'll be able to clean the substrate again though! As I type, they're spawning again, after placing more eggs two days ago, and all the tiny fry already there, and the babies that have adult colouration already. I just saw another baby that is smaller than the largest baby, but has its adult colours already. Once they start spawning, do they ever stop? By the size of the oldest baby and when I first saw eggs, they've been spawning pretty often over the last month! Although since I do plan to move them to another tank, I suppose I can move the adults and large fry, then leave this tank set up to raise the remaining fry without adults adding more and more fry :-) I hope they like the new tank as much as they seem to like this one. Sorry, one more question! Since I bought the adults in one batch, there's a high chance that they're related. Since they're colony breeding and these young once mature will be mating with parents and siblings, should I get some unrelated pygmies now and them to introduce some new blood into the group? Will they accept new additions well?
Never collect rainwater from a roof. It most probably will be seriously contaminated with bird droppings. You can collect clean rainwater with an umbrella that you put upside down on top of a large bucket. Or you could spread a large sheet of plastic foil, suspended on four corners. Punch a hole in the middle of the foil and put a bucket under it.
Your videos are brill. Watched several today!! I’ve recently set up a nano (25L) planted aquarium. I’m on a massive learning curve being basically a novice fishkeeper/ aqua gardener. Two weeks ago I bought two Pygmy Cory’s, and yesterday I noticed tiny little fry darting near a large leaved plant. I’ve also got 8 galaxy rasboras. This morning I saw a fry being eaten by a rasbora, but have spotted a couple of other fry successfully hiding. Is it likely any of the fry will survive in the tank? Any advice to help at least one of these fry survive will be massively appreciated. Tia
They're mostly the same . feed them well and then lower the water level and then after a couple of days add softer fresh water and refill the tank this should get them going.
Since stability is usually said to be the most important factor with water parameters, how do the sudden changes in pH and temperature affect the fish. Is there some risk of stress involved with this process?
Hi Mark, you've inspired me to get a couple of small tanks and have a go at breeding some of my fav species. I've been looking at nano tanks and they tend to come in 20, 30 & 60l sizes, which size should I get for breeding cardinal tetras and cory sterbaii, Thanks :)
Hi I love your videos your so good at what you do. I was wondering if you could give me some advice I've recently optained a 180 Ltd tank and I want to build some buildings that look like Egyptian houses can you give me some pionters thanks, lee
Hi, I am enjoying your excellent videos and have just subscribed to your channel. I have a question about the pygmy coradora females: After the conditioned females spawn, how long do they rest before producing a new batch of eggs (or before trying to bring them into condition again)? I have been breeding livebearers up until now, but I would love to try breeding these cute little fish.
I've got a small group of habrosus corydora im trying this on this week. I've got them in a 20 long with a couple of guppies. They are wild caught so i have been letting the water evaporate for the last few months to simulate nature. My starting ph is 8.0 so I'm really crossing my fingers that the ph will drop enough to get them to spawn.
Hi Mark how often do you feed your main tank brine shrimp when conditioning them to breed.also want to say a big Thank you for all your video I've been meaning to clear my shed out for the past few years to keep fish but after watching your videos I done it over a weekend and have already got tanks set up inside thanks mark
MARK'S AQUATICS haha yes I think I have mark and only question at the moment is when your conditioning you fish with brine shrimp how many times a day do you feed them with it and is that all you feed them
One of my Corydoras Hastatus females just layed eggs at a pH of 7 and GH of 8 °dH in 12 liters. I have 2 females and 2 males. You say Pygmy Corys don't eat their fry, but you separated the parents from the fry anyways. Do you recommend separating them?
I’ve watched this with interest several times Mark, as I really want to breed my Panda Corys. Would you recommend any different techniques for Pandas ? Or better still, show in a future vid ? 🙂👍🏻🤓
I've got 26, only had them around a week but quite a few of them look like little fatties. I'm going to put a mop in just incase but there is a lot of plants in my tank
What can I feed the adults in addition to walter worms? Which type of frozen food will be small enough and sink for the corys? I'll try frozen baby brine shrimp tomorrow.
the one thing i was always worried when using rain water was what was on the roof of the fish and i did not use the first rain that can down as it had dirt and other things that could have killed all my fish and the other thing i did is run it though most peat
You're my new favourite RUclipsr, thank you for sharing your experience. Keep up the good work 😊
Thanks for watching.👍😀
My experience with these has been, after they reach maturity and all display that black stripe under their bellies, they will lay eggs every day non stop. Males will chase after the females whenever they're not eating or taking a nap. These are sold very young. If you have trouble getting them to spawn even after using all Mark's tricks (strong flow, 25C, soft acidic water) your fish haven't reached maturity. I have these in a 60 litre species tank with a HOB filter and a sponge on the intake. 3mm gravel as substrate. Can verify they dont eat their eggs or the young.
Had you kept them with shrimps?
I have a group of 27, most of them are more than a year old but no success in breeding..
Hey Mark. I used to watch all your videos 4-5 years ago and used many of your methods to breed fish. Starting 10 small tanks again and enjoying your videos once again. Thanks!!! Kevin. South Africa
Just got 6 of these little guys. They're so funny to watch. Planning on getting 6 more. Maybe I'll try breeding them :)
One of the best explanations I've seen. Keeping these species with otocinclus and neocaridina shrimp. Added a power head for water flow and they're much more active.Thanks for sharing!
Thanks to your videos again I was able to breed my pygmys!! Love your breeding videos still!
This is BRILLIANT footage! I've just noticed a few baby Pygmy's in my tank, and I have only had the adults for 2 mths...I was so surprised. This video is perfect, thank you!
bruv,i am so loving these breeding programmes,i can not begin to tell you how much i have learned from you,also still think that your palud is the best that i have ever seen,it looks stunning,absolutly stunning,all credit to you bruv..also thank very much for the updates on all the other fry ,,particularly the plecos..bruv if you continue to push out this this quality of videos,your views are gonna soar..the very best..love and peace to you and yours..xxx..
Thanks for the message mate. 👍😀
Years ago I’ve bred Neon Tetras, Guppies, Swordtails, and Mollies. I never had success with Catfish. Your tutorial has encouraged me to try again. I didn’t have the right setup back then. Thank you for sharing! Enjoyed watching!
Hey Mark, another excellent video, it amazes me how great you are with breeding fish and your DIY projects, you are the Jack of all trades and I look forward to seeing every video of yours great job 😉
Thanks Lisa.😀
Thank God for this video. This is the only video I've found for PYGMY Cory's. Mine have just laid and recently hatched and I've been at a lost for what to do for such micro fry. Than you so much!!!!
Excellent informative video, again! You really make everything you show very interesting. I would love to see you breed the Chili Rasbora (Boraras brigittae) at some point, I love those fish.
Hi. Yes i plan to breed those at some point.Thanks for watching.👍😀
very interesting and informative video Mark, loving🐡 these🐟fish breading 🐠 series videos you doing fight now👍
Some of the best and most enjoyable fish videos on RUclips.
Thank you.
Nice to see your vids.
I Breed many sorts of fish in my lifetime and quit 8 years ago.
After seeing your vids i want to start again.
Peace love and blessings from the Netherlands.
Thanks for watching.👍😀
Hi mark, this is such an amazing footage! What is more amazing is that they're not afraid of your presence. Mine would dart straight back to their hiding spot as soon as there are movements outside the tank. Kinda sad to only be able to observe them from a distance. Thank you again for the vids and i wish you well in your future breeding projects.
MsR _ Have you thought about using dither fish? Mine got a lot braver after I added Rasboras.... I’ve also used guppies
@@scubageek17 Definitely sounds like a good idea but its currently fully stocked with cardinal tetras and otocinclus. Its ok though as long as they are healthy and thriving im good. Thank you for the suggestion!
@@kopichuchu My pygmies are my least shy cory, I think. My suggestion is to feed them something really good, such as frozen baby brine shrimp or daphnia, and park yourself right by the glass and don't move. They won't be able to resist coming for the food! If you did that several days in a row, or a few days a week, I'm sure they'd start to get used to your presence. 😊
This is brilliant!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Kindest regards from South Africa.
Awesome! Thank you so much sir! I love how you explain everything in such detail. Makes it look so easy, thanks again!
Thanks for watching . 👍😀
Ahhh you make it seem so easy, sensei!!
How's the breeding going?
Not very well so far tbh, starting to get despondent
I just got some Pygmy Coradoras this weekend. Fantastic to come across this video. Great stuff! Keep it up and can't wait to see the next video in this series. Definitely will be taking some RO water home tonight to drip into there tank :)
Thanks for watching.👍😀
Got myself 11 new Albino corydoras catfish today, set up on a nice black fine gravel... hope to breed them when they get bigger. Giving them some frozen blood worms to fatten them up. with 2 small guppies, a heater, sponge filter, and some nice leafy plants. Unfortunately difficult to see if they are male and female, and took all of what was in LFS. Thanks for your videos! At least my fish is generally doing a lot better these days, after I moved them from outside into an insulated wendy house fish room. :) Love this hobby!!
This is still one of my favorite video. Thanks for sharing 💗💯✌️👍
Was waiting for this video! Didn't expect it so soon! Thanks as always Mark for the great content and long vids!
Thanks for watching Ray.👍😀
Excellent video cheers, mate. got 9 of these little beauty's today :) got them in a heavily planted ta k with some botanicals to lower the pH for them :)
Fantastic Mark , I could watch them little fish all night .so interesting things ....
Thanks for watching.👍😀
I am trying to breed pygmy corydoras at the moment. Thanks for all the good info. Hope I succeed
Great video Mark. Thank you very much. I like your system, an is 100% certified. You got them spawning in less than 30 mins. Wow!!!
This was super helpful. I’ve been attempting to breed albino Cory cats and I have had a decent amount of luck, with 1 Cory from my 1st batch (hatched 2 months ago) and at least 30 from my second batch (hatched 2 weeks ago). I think I’m going to try what you did here with my albino Cory’s and hopefully I’ll have the same success you had
Thank you for the excellent family friendly vids! I subbed the other day and have been binge watching .
Thanks for watching.👍😀
Good shots of C. pygmeus spawning. I never bred them but I used to breed C. hastatus by the hundreds every year in a permanent breeding colony setup which they happily shared with Cherry Shrimp. I used that same colony style breeding setup for C. habrosus but they were less productive. C. hastatus school well and aren't as shy as C. pygmeus usually are.
I thought your technique for adding the RO water was pretty clever of you.
Thanks for watching.👍😀
Your vids are nearly always good stuff, Mark. Cheers, Mate!
Great again Mark really enjoying the breeding series. You will have fry everywhere soon. Cheers
Thanks for watching.👍😀
Thanks for all the great videos...... MARK!
Keep up the great work..... Great Informative videos...... I will be trying some of your ways of breeding different fish.
Rawleighman - Downunder Australia....
Thanks for watching.👍😀
Excellent video, I was waiting for this kind of video, as corys are one of my favorite fish in this beautiful hobby. Can't wait for the update
Thanks for watching.👍😀
Amazing footage! If you look very closely (try slow motion playback) at 12:38 you can see the female clean off a piece of subwassertang and actually see the egg being deposited!
Superb. Love your videos. Keep showing more breeding videos. UR a great inspiration
Thanks for watching.👍😀
Nice video. Thanks Sir. I do watch many youtuber's video but usually don't hit the like button!
My pygmy corys have been breeding everyday for 3 weeks now. They are breeding in a community tank. In the beginning I moved the fry/eggs to another aquarium, but now I just leave the fry/eggs in the community tank :P Great video as usual :)
Thanks for watching.👍😀
I know this is five years old, but, that was an awesome vid. Thanks.
great video mark, looking forward to giving this a crack myself with all the tips/ideas in these videos!
Wonderful - thank you! For your RO drip, will you continue this for the 3 days and siphon off tank water to maintain same depth?
I had my first hatch of Cory spawn this evening. My first time with any fish. So excited. So far there are three and in the morning I hope to see more. I have the hatchery going so I will have food for them when they finish with the egg sack.
THANKS.....SO HAPPY,.... to hear, THAT these do not eat their eggs, or young. I've wanted some for a while now, BUT figured the EGGS would be so small, and hard to remove. SO, I'm setting up a TANK just for the pygmies. VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.
Very enjoyable to watch. Thank you and God bless 🙏
Thanks for watching.
I'm about to try a spawn... excellent video Mark! Thank you.
Nice I always wanted to learn how to breed these great job mark
Thank's so much Mark, a really great interesting video. I'm going to give this a go. These are my favorite fish.They are so entertaining and pretty difficult to get hold of. I don't have access to RO water but do collect rainwater for use in the house and garden, so will use that. Living in South Wales the ph is only 6.8 so I don't need to change it much. First job get a sponge filter and cycle it. Again your videos are great, keep it up, you'll make fish keeper out of me yet.
This is the one I've been waiting for. Thanks Mark. I've got 10 that I want to spawn.
Thank you very much for sharing these information!! Very kind of you!
Looked like she first deposited the received milt from her mouth onto the leaf where she then stuck the egg. Maybe either the milt is the adhesive that keeps the egg stuck to the leaf or the egg is very sticky and stays on its own. More investigation and extreme closeups are needed. SCIENCE! hee,hee. Thanks so much for these breeding videos. I will eventually have more space and plan on doing some selective breeding. I'll definitely be adding an RO water maker then too.
Thanks for watching.👍😀
That's my theory too! (milt deposited on leaf before she places the egg.) We are hatching a batch right now.
Think they will lay in the plants all depends of where they are feeling safe i think. Awsome video sir thanks. Happy fishkeeping
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Wow Mark talk about " on queue" :) Once again enjoyable and informative :)
Thanks for sharing, much appreciated. I also enjoyed your Otocinclus breeding videos. Would it make sense to keep pygmys and otos together?
I love your videos Mark, always something different, and your enthusiasm is infective. Getting ready to breed some harlequins here, so any tips and tricks with them would be appreciated. Im assuming, they will be similar to the neons you bred, as they live in the same part of the world. But if not, at least Im learning. Love your work, keep breeding!
Hi Lynda. At tip for Harlequins use lots of plants as they lay the eggs on the underside of leaves ok. They don't scatter the eggs like neon's.Thanks for watching.👍😀
Thanks Mark! Youre a star! Will let you know how it goes. Thanks as always for your wide knowledge of the hobby... you are educating all of us.
Thanks sharing this. So awesome to see
So magical to watch! I have a group of 14 habrosus so I’m hoping for them to spawn too ❤️🐠
Great I Love Cory's and been waiting for you to do these.
Tugger Wilson
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Great video! I have 4 tanks. 15 gallon each tank. Sterbai, Eaneus, Julii's, Schwartzi's. Somehow none of them are breeding. I have done everything I can do. Any tips? Thank you!
Great detailed information!
Really, really helpful info -- thanks!!!
Glad it was helpful!
a joy to watch excellent as usual
Thanks for watching David .👍😀
This is amazing. Always interested in food Corydoras videos! If you end up with any surplus I’d be after some. My LFS won’t get them in.
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excellent vid , my water is 8.2 so i struggle with corys , get massive broods off pluchers , might try lowering with chemicals and give it a try cheers
Hi Mark, great video by the way as with all your others. Quick question if ok. Is the breeding process the same for corydoras habrosus as these pygmaeus? I've only got 6 and they're probably my most fun to watch in my community tank and currently they seem hard to come by. Sadly my Betta died recently so have an empty 38l tank which I could use to breed.
Hi Mark, thank you so much for this video! Just found your channel through this vid, and by the time I was halfway through, I had to hit subscribe!
Would love some advice on how to clean substrate when you have pygmy fry in a tank! I'm so scared of accidentally sucking one up and not seeing it among the mulm and throwing it out... :-( Right now I move my hand across the area I'm ready to syphon, use a very small gravel cleaner so I can target areas (and move around the plants), then I go through a long, careful process of letting the bucket settle, checking for movement, disturbing it and checking for darting movements, emptying the bucket one jug at a time and looking carefully for any fry... it takes hours!
I'm accidentally breeding them! Two year old 15g mature tank, HOB filter and heavily planted, lots of almond leaves etc. Substrate is a problem, it was my first tank so it had gravel - when I got pygmies, I removed half the gravel and added a fine sand beach at the front. Only temporary home since I have to move the tanks around soon and planning to move them to another long established tank with only sand substrate. (how I'm going to catch all the fry and move them, I don't know!) so it's like a gravel bed jungle at the back, with vallis, siamensis 53B and sessiliflora at the back, a slate cave and some driftwood, and crypts at the front, plus moss balls and a few other plants. Very hard to spot eggs among all that!
I got a group of seven pygmies, store was having supply problems so planned to get more and bump the shoal to 12 or so when I could get more. Tank has a group of otocinclus and six male guppies too. When I move tanks, will move the male guppies and keep the otos and pygmies with another nano species like ember tetra or chili rasbora.
Was planning to get more pygmies, but was stunned to see eggs on the glass one day! Hidden behind the vallis. I was already raising a bronze cory spawn from another tank, so I decided to let nature take it's course, only added an airstone near the eggs, blocked them off a little with driftwood, and added some more alder cones and almond leaves.
I couldn't see any fry when the eggs had vanished, so figured the guppies ate the eggs and/or fry. But about a month later, saw two baby pygmies when doing a water change! They shot out of the plants while I was cleaning the substrate. They were a good size too, about a month or so old. I'm delighted they're happy enough to breed, and that fry survived in the tank without me hand raising them! I do feed a variety of small frozen, dried and live food, micro and banana worms, frozen cyclops, daphnia, rotifers etc.
Today, spotted another fry! So tiny, it looks like an insect. Only just free swimming I think. I'm so scared I'm going to accidentally suck one up, but you know how gravel is, and how the almond leaves decay and leave bits everywhere - it really needs a good clean. Sorry for the long essay! I just love these little fish so much, and want to give them the best home I possibly can. Any tips would be so appreciated!
Adding comment about this - I just saw the pygmies spawning, including a female trying to place an egg on a leaf, but she dropped it.
I just did a substrate clean on one half of the tank, and saw so many fry wriggle away and hide down in the gravel, making cleaning so difficult! Despite all the precautions in my above comment, I've rescued seven teeny tiny pygmy fry from the buckets. They camoflage so well among the pygmy poop and debris, can only spot them when they move. So scared to do more cleaning! But the gravel still needs to be cleaned to prevent bacterial infections. Halp!
Fantastic news about the babies! While the fry are young I wouldn't clean the the substrate because it will contain lots of micro life for them to feed off. Your obviously doing all the right things to get them to breed. Congratulations. 😀👍
@@MARKSAQUATICS Thank you so much! I've only been in the hobby for a little over two years, so I'm really happy that the bronze and pygmy cories are breeding so well, even though it was sooner than expected and caught me a bit off guard! The pygmies were not fully grown when I got them, guess they reached sexual maturity recently!
I'm taking your advice not to clean the substrate while they have tiny fry, it's impossible to avoid them since they hide themselves down in the gravel. And as you say, they will find micro organisms there. I'll just remove water from the surface for weekly water changes for now. I don't know when I'll be able to clean the substrate again though! As I type, they're spawning again, after placing more eggs two days ago, and all the tiny fry already there, and the babies that have adult colouration already. I just saw another baby that is smaller than the largest baby, but has its adult colours already.
Once they start spawning, do they ever stop? By the size of the oldest baby and when I first saw eggs, they've been spawning pretty often over the last month! Although since I do plan to move them to another tank, I suppose I can move the adults and large fry, then leave this tank set up to raise the remaining fry without adults adding more and more fry :-) I hope they like the new tank as much as they seem to like this one.
Sorry, one more question! Since I bought the adults in one batch, there's a high chance that they're related. Since they're colony breeding and these young once mature will be mating with parents and siblings, should I get some unrelated pygmies now and them to introduce some new blood into the group? Will they accept new additions well?
@@scarletamazon3455 yes its best to get new bloodlines if you plan to keep breeding them. And yes one they start breeding they will keep going.
Would you suggest the same method for habrosus corys?
I HAVE A 29 GAL. TANK. On the top I have about a dozen of silver hatchets. the temp is at 73. what should I do?
I'll be watching this with interest. Thx
I have some salt & pepper cory's (Corydoras habrosus), do they need the same as these pgymys?
Can I just do a WC with tap water or they 100% need the ph to be lowered with rain/RO water?
My females are HUGE and I've seen breeding behavior
That's some good amount of water flow. What size air pump are you running, is it a single on for this tank or a large one running your shed?? Thanks
It runs off my huge air pump that runs the workshop. 😊👍
@@MARKSAQUATICS have to say thanks for your time to share your endless knowledge and experiences with breeding. Great content
Never collect rainwater from a roof. It most probably will be seriously contaminated with bird droppings. You can collect clean rainwater with an umbrella that you put upside down on top of a large bucket. Or you could spread a large sheet of plastic foil, suspended on four corners. Punch a hole in the middle of the foil and put a bucket under it.
Your videos are brill. Watched several today!! I’ve recently set up a nano (25L) planted aquarium. I’m on a massive learning curve being basically a novice fishkeeper/ aqua gardener. Two weeks ago I bought two Pygmy Cory’s, and yesterday I noticed tiny little fry darting near a large leaved plant. I’ve also got 8 galaxy rasboras. This morning I saw a fry being eaten by a rasbora, but have spotted a couple of other fry successfully hiding. Is it likely any of the fry will survive in the tank? Any advice to help at least one of these fry survive will be massively appreciated. Tia
If you have lots of plants and places to for them to hide they should be ok.
🤞 May have to add a couple more plants. Thanks so much.
Great work Mark am going to give it a go av got 12 of them.Where can i get Ro water from
Your local fish shop will sell it. If not use rain water. Thanks for watching Alfie. 👍😀
Great footage of the breeding, nice one Mark. Are all corys the same to breed? I have some pandas I would like to try this with.
They're mostly the same . feed them well and then lower the water level and then after a couple of days add softer fresh water and refill the tank this should get them going.
Cheers mate, I will give it a go.
Do C. habrosus need similar conditions? I have habrosus. Beautiful videos all. Love your accent!!
Yes they will breed in the same conditions.
Since stability is usually said to be the most important factor with water parameters, how do the sudden changes in pH and temperature affect the fish. Is there some risk of stress involved with this process?
That is so amazing. Very educational 💦
Hi Mark, you've inspired me to get a couple of small tanks and have a go at breeding some of my fav species. I've been looking at nano tanks and they tend to come in 20, 30 & 60l sizes, which size should I get for breeding cardinal tetras and cory sterbaii, Thanks :)
Hi I love your videos your so good at what you do. I was wondering if you could give me some advice I've recently optained a 180 Ltd tank and I want to build some buildings that look like Egyptian houses can you give me some pionters thanks, lee
Hi Lee. You could use slate. Use an electric tile cutter and cut various blocks and build it using 100% silicone to put together.
Thanks Mark great tip as it just so happens I have quite a bit of slate 👍
What an opening! I love it
Hey Mark! What RO system do you use/recommend?
Hi, I am enjoying your excellent videos and have just subscribed to your channel. I have a question about the pygmy coradora females: After the conditioned females spawn, how long do they rest before producing a new batch of eggs (or before trying to bring them into condition again)? I have been breeding livebearers up until now, but I would love to try breeding these cute little fish.
You make great videos!
I've got a small group of habrosus corydora im trying this on this week. I've got them in a 20 long with a couple of guppies. They are wild caught so i have been letting the water evaporate for the last few months to simulate nature. My starting ph is 8.0 so I'm really crossing my fingers that the ph will drop enough to get them to spawn.
Hi Mark how often do you feed your main tank brine shrimp when conditioning them to breed.also want to say a big Thank you for all your video I've been meaning to clear my shed out for the past few years to keep fish but after watching your videos I done it over a weekend and have already got tanks set up inside thanks mark
Sound like you've caught my aquarium shed fever.Lol good luck on your project and if you need any help please ask away. Thanks for watching.👍😀
MARK'S AQUATICS haha yes I think I have mark and only question at the moment is when your conditioning you fish with brine shrimp how many times a day do you feed them with it and is that all you feed them
I feed the main tank twice a day with brine shrimp and bug bites. .
Nice video there mark very interesting
One of my Corydoras Hastatus females just layed eggs at a pH of 7 and GH of 8 °dH in 12 liters. I have 2 females and 2 males. You say Pygmy Corys don't eat their fry, but you separated the parents from the fry anyways. Do you recommend separating them?
Excellent mark!
I’ve watched this with interest several times Mark, as I really want to breed my Panda Corys. Would you recommend any different techniques for Pandas ? Or better still, show in a future vid ? 🙂👍🏻🤓
How do you get that current flowing from your sponge filter?
Put a 90 degree bend on the top of the pipe 😀👍
Amazing job, love your videos. How did you go about making your trickle system there?
Hi Diago. Here's part 1 of the build video. You can find the other videos in my playlists. ruclips.net/video/zW-SaOsbfCw/видео.html
Thank you for the quick reply!
Love It!!! I enjoy your excitement!!
I've got 26, only had them around a week but quite a few of them look like little fatties. I'm going to put a mop in just incase but there is a lot of plants in my tank
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I will have to remember this when I get my room rebuilt!
What can I feed the adults in addition to walter worms? Which type of frozen food will be small enough and sink for the corys? I'll try frozen baby brine shrimp tomorrow.
You can also feed repashy foods just sprinkle it in dry ok. Or very finely ground flake food. 😀👍
@@MARKSAQUATICS Thanks! 1 inch is about 2.5 cm
Excellent video
What you feed these mark. Is the bugs bites range any good
Crushed bug bites and micro worms.
the one thing i was always worried when using rain water was what was on the roof of the fish and i did not use the first rain that can down as it had dirt and other things that could have killed all my fish and the other thing i did is run it though most peat