Can't You Breed Catfish?

longstocking

longstocking

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lol... i used to keep cories and breed them. I bred P. typus too recently ! :p

Now I'm trying plecos. They seem to like my water better. Working with Calico BN's ... see if I can get those going and if I can I'll move onto something a tad harder in terms of pelcos. Baby steps :)

I love cories... they just don't like the water by me for some reason. Northern side of Baltimore they loved the water.
 
Pat Kelly

Pat Kelly

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I have bred some cories previously. There are pictures on here somewhere...lol

They still lay eggs at times but never make it past the Africans that are in the tank with them.

Food...
 
DeeCee

DeeCee

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Some of the females cichlids in with the multipuntatus cats are holding, and I'd really like to see some fry from the cats from it~

Ummm past that, no luck with anything right now except the bristlenose. Cute little buggers though :love0001:

DC
 
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animicrazy

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For What It Is Worth:


Consider environmental influences - including the presence of other 'breeding' fish (and their bio-active contributions) - as well as water specs. etc. You can have all but one spec out of dozens right and not breed; also, you can have all of the specs wrong BUT the one that really matters; or a combo of both.

This all goes towards the issue of a 'natural' habitat and 'pure' breeding.

The topic is immense in potential - but people (like you and me) have to be willing to do the Hard Science to ferret out the distinctions - hey; just some work in the ole fish room !!

The Mad Scientist

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maddog10

maddog10

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Some of the females cichlids in with the multipuntatus cats are holding, and I'd really like to see some fry from the cats from it~

Ummm past that, no luck with anything right now except the bristlenose. Cute little buggers though :love0001:

DC[/b]
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I watched those cats following the cichlids around, I think they will be spitting catfish in the very near future!
 
Laxison

Laxison

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I've inadvertantly breeded my cories ("My God they're at it again!) and on the 4th attempt I now have a batch of 19 that are 4 or 5 weeks old! I'm tossing around the idea of writing an article about it all for the newsletter (Pat, would an article on cories be OK for a cichlid newsletter?). I only have one survivor from the previous spawnings that Mike nicknamed "Sparky" for reasons described in earlier posts (accidental electrocution may or may not have been involved!).

Cichlids are still my favorite, but I'm enjoying my accidental success in breeding cories!
 
Laxison

Laxison

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349...that's how many eggs my cories laid on Saturday. They've already hatched and it's amazing to see the little guys swimming all around. But 349!? My last "batch" of fry gave me 21! I wonder if my cories were on a "last kick" before they "kicked it!"
 
longstocking

longstocking

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WOOO HOOO nice job Lax ! I love cories !

I looked up on my top rack yesterday and found a great little surprise. 50 or so Claico LF BN's GOOO ME ! lol ha

OK maybe I should move onto something a tad harder in terms of plecos. Anyone here breed plecos other than BN's ?
 
Laxison

Laxison

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Isn't finding eggs scattered around a blast??!!

I couldn't believe how many they laid! Whenever I thought I was done and left the room, I'd come back to find even more batches of eggs!

The little guys are all hatched and have had numerous water changes and are doing well in the new "breeding set up" that I have! I'll updates soon, hopefully!
 
Laxison

Laxison

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I am the worst fish-mom ever. Or I jsut have rotten luck. So you know how I was able to scrape up 349 eggs that my cories laid? The vast majority of them hatched and an even "vaster majority" escaped from their confines. I had them in their own "grow out tank" but noticed that the water was a bit fridged. I put them back into their breeder trap thinking that their heads were big enough to keep them from escaping through the slits. Boy was I wrong! One day I woke up and was able to "somewhat" count the number of fish in there. Individually. Clearly, some had made a break. The next morning, only 20 were there! I have sat in front of the tank for extended periods of time searching for those who had escaped ("any sign of life?!") only to find nothing at all. :( So I still have 20 in there, but my heart breaks for "losing" so many and I'm kicking myself for putting them in the breeder trap and reintroducing them into the tank they would eventually be in. "Why didn't you put a heater in the other tank and avoid moving them at all?" No spare heater. I just gave myself another swift kick in the butt for that :smashfreakB:
 
Pat Kelly

Pat Kelly

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Sounds like a Biotope article to me....

Under the old title I used years ago.

"I made mistakes, why should you?"
 
mscichlid

mscichlid

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Which corys are these? I think you almost cornered the market nevertheless! Good job on the spawn. I have never witnessed or heard of anyone getting a spawn that large from any Corydoras!
 
Laxison

Laxison

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They're just some plain ol' bronze cories that I picked up sometime last year from one of the meetings. I have other groups of cories but these ones are very frisky!! I'm definitely going to work on a Biotope article for this (I got your blessing for it, right Pat?) since I've seen to hit some very bad luck each and everytime my fish breed. They're practically handing me the fish on a silver platter and I keep messing it all up! Rotten luck, but at least we'll get a Biotope article out of it!!
 
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