I am just starting to attempt to breecl these magnificient creatures but this post is not for me, its for others who have cories that have bred or are going to breed. I will supply discoveries i make, and i am hoping anybody else who has kept or even bred these fish to supply info to someone else who has fallen in love with these fish. All experience is welcome as well as ideas for things.
And if you have pics of your cories breeding, or of cory fry ( must be your own pics as any one can look up google for pics ) then please post them.

Here is some pics of some albino cory fry. I really enjoy breeding them.







Here they are feeding on some frozen baby brine shrimp

those are really great pics susan, i myself am planning on breeding albinos as they are so cute

Got any info for newbies to cories?, such as decor and plant types and etc.,

I myself would reccomend smashed pieces of clay pots, stick them in a bucket full of water and poke a stick thats slightly larger than the whole on the bottom and slowly jab it in until the pot just splits, and dont smash as the pieces will be bad shaped, use this method

When breeding the cories I just leave the adults in my community tank and when they lay their eggs I remove the leaves which has the eggs and put them into a 5 gal tank with a sponge filter and airstone. The tank is bare bottom, I might put one ornament in there but mostly just floating plants. Once the eggs hatch don't feed for a couple of days as they will consume the egg sac. After that feed with green water, newly hatched baby brine shrimp or daphena, 3 or 4 times a day. Do small water changes daily using just a airline tube. After about 2 weeks they should be able to start eating other foods. Just keep them well fed and the water clean will have them growing pretty fast.

The pics that I posted shows them at 3 weeks. Within 8 weeks they were back into the big tanks with the adults.

Well if cories are the only fish in your tank you dont really need to remove them as some fry will survive a spawning, depending on how large and how many plants there are, but if you would like to get many fry, do as susan said with the leaves, but be careful to not let the eggs come in contact with air as ^it is said^ that that will kill them.

Anybdy else wanna submit info for cory breecling 101?

Well i was researching for awhile and thought i'd share this.

Some cories beginners would like to try would be...

c. aeneus ( bronze and albino )
c. paleatus ( peppered cory )
c. panda ( panda cory )

for intermediate cory breeders i would say

c. adolfoi ( adolfo's cory )

and for people who are well acquainted i would say

It doesn't matter, if your a good cory breeder there probably isnt one you can't breed

Here are some links that may be helpul


Cory breeding 1

cory breeding 2

Oh and this link includes links, so this is a really helpful one
cory breeding 3


Please tell me if any of these links dont work for you and i will try to fix that

here's another good link i found i liked, in fact i like this whole sight, pretty good


cory breeding 4

They aren't the only ones in the main tank, In it I have endlers and AFF both of which are very bad at eating eggs. My last batch consisted of about 50 fry, didn't move all the eggs though as some were hard to get to. I have even scraped them off the glass and put them on leaves myself and the short distance from one tank to another didn't bother the eggs at all.

ermm... i technically was directed that to the readers... not to you..

but dont edit ur post, it gave me tankmate ideas of cories

I realized that, but figured it would give some idea as to how some are kept. I have 7 tanks, 3 tubs and a pond full of fish. Kind of hard to have one devoted to just the cories. My main tank is a heavily planted 75 gal so it can be a problem getting to all the eggs before the other fish do. :hmm:

ahh i see, it does give a pretty good idea of how some are kept

alright, in about a month, im gonna be of real use to this thread (other than providing info and starting the thread), going to start up the tank, :D

heheeheeheeeheeee. i got $30. an empty 10 ready for use.. and time.. this weekend i will start.

Good luck with your venture. It can be lots of fun raising fry.

I breed Panda cories. here are some pictures of some of my past spawns





In this pic, you can see the female swimming toward the top of the aquarium with an egg clutched in her anal fins. The cories following her often eat the egg right off of the glass when she drops it. I would estimate that I have a 95% or so loss rate due to the other cories eating the eggs.



Here is a picture of some panda cory eggs laid on the glass this particular batch was laid about a year ago and had a great survivability ratio, I expect that they will be spawning themselves in a year or so.



Here is a picture of a seconds-old fry: notice the dark yolk sac in its belly



These are pictures of the fry in the previous eggs at about 2 months later.


later,
Rez B)

Thankz for your contribution. we sure needed a good egg pic.

OMG REZ Thank you! :hug:

Now I now what laid eggs in my 55...

*sets up breeding tank*

I knew this thread would help people, :D

A lot of good info here so I pinned it, keep the info and pics coming!

Will do, Dot. Now if only i could get all my tanks organized well enough to start my cory tank. Maybe I'll wait til' we got a new digi cam.

I had lied.. well, now it's summer and I have free time.. so.

I'm such a liar, still haven't even started.

I haven't dropped the idea, I've just been really lazy with the fish. My brother and I are tearing down the 29 gallon tomorrow and cleaning it, getting new plants, and otherwise just fixing it. A friend is holding onto the fish. After that tank is fixed, we plan on setting up some of the empty ten gallons (4 of them) Fixing the 29 gallon is first priority, 10 Gallon Cory Breeding Tank is second priority.

I'm sorry to have held this thread while it being full of lies for the past (long time).

I'm hoping a mod could go through this post and delete some of my useless posts that just say "oh I'm starting now, or tomorrow".

In other words.
my posts on:
Sep 24 2006
Nov 3 2006
Dec 6 2006
Jun 14 2007
This one.

Well with as much as cories breed, you'll get it done eventually. Right now I have albino's, emeralds and peppers laying eggs along with the bristlenose and flagfish. I am just going to let nature take its course as right now in the 75 gal I have 19 cories and 6 bristlenose fry growing along with the 4 adults. I am gonna have to set up a tank just for the bristlenose and trying to figure out where.