How to breed corydoras?

[andrew1002]

I would like to breed my cory catfish. I have five of them all emerald green cory cats. So besides using cooler water when doing water changes what else can I do? They eat sinking pellets for bottom dwellers and any leftover sinking cichlid food that sinks to bottom. Anything at all I can do to promote breeding? I have plecostomus in the tank and I know they are egg eaters so I will have to work that out. And ill put the eggs in my 10 gallon. I will pick up as many corys in as soon as possible as I can. So ill be getting like 3 more probably. Any ideas? What exactly do i do other than add cool water? Thanks!

-Andrew

 

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Water changes

For easy species the ticket is usually a lot of live food or frozen blood/blackworms for a few days plus followed by a massive water change. Someimes one can just move them to a new tank with clean water and get instant results - a ten is adequate for most species to spawn, few pieces of slate and some Anubias won't hurt, but most are content with a clean piece of glass.

 

[Tony]

Getting them to spawn is easy... raising their nearly-microscopic fry is not.

 

[andrew1002]

Getting them to spawn is easy... raising their nearly-microscopic fry is not.

Ya I have raised many batches of fry before and I have some growing up now (cobra guppies)

-Andrew

 

[Shane]

Brochis tend to be much more difficult to spawn than Corydoras. Here is a good article by one of our own local experts.

http://www.planetcatfish.com/shanesworld/shanesworld.php?article_id=97

-Shane

 

[minifoot77]

Ya I have raised many batches of fry before and I have some growing up now (cobra guppies)

-Andrew

cories are way different than guppies... guppies will eat flake as fry and cories are too small for newly hatched baby brine shrimp....