how do you know if theyre pregnant???

also do they lay there eggs on the glass? as I have about 4 things that look like eggs on the side of the tank?

they do lay them on the glass, plants, rocks everywhere.

not sure bout where they lay but they dont get pregant as such, they lay eggs which the male fertilises

If you 'condition' them, i.e with good live and frozen foods like bloodworm, brine shrimp, daphnia, the females will fatten up with eggs.

how do I determine there sex because the tank that has eggs only has 2 corys?

can corys be easily bred?

shiuh- i think so, alot of people seem to have them breeding so they cant be too tough

mat- as far as i know females are a fair bit fatter and have different fins somewhere but i could never sex by fins haha

I used to breed a lot of corys and use the babies as cleaners instead of snails. You need to seperate the males and females and feed them up well. They breed best when quite mature and the females are a lot bigger and easy to tell. I bred them in bare tanks and you will usually get them to spawn by giving a cold water change and they spawn the next day as the water warms up. They are ideal in a tank of middle swimmers like angels and will grow very well on the brine shrimp and microworm left over. There is also a good market for them.

those panda corys are always in demand. but i guess they are lot harder to breed than the normal albino ones?

so will peppered corys fertilise albino eggs? because I think my only male is a peppered and all the rest are Albino females ( I Think)

if they can interbreed (not sure) DONT let them (remove eggs/cull fry)!! your mixing strains then which will un-do all the work that was put into them to get them peppered, mixing colour strains when your not trying to create a new line is IMO very very sad, dont wana sound mean or anything but im sure a fair few colour strains have been wiped out from mixing

The albinos are from bronze corries, so mixing up strains to do that

Hey Mat, the easiest way, if you can, is to look into the tank from above. The females will be wider than the males. Alan are you saying the bronze and albino can interbreed as they are the same species just a different variety?

Not certain but I think so.

There are albinos in both the paleatus (peppered) and aeneus (bronze) corys.

IMO the pepered are a slimmer fish, but unless you have a group of them, then you aren't going to be able to distinguish the difference.

This makes it difficult to tell apart with no colours to aid you.

So you coud be trying, or thinking of mating, two different types of corydoras.

Alan 104

Well my BN ate all the eggs That were in my community tank and the ones in my mothers tank got cleaned out, might set up my spare 4 foot tank when the females get fat again or can I put them in a tank with a sand/fine bottom :-? as my baby molly/platy tank might be the go (unless they eat the eggs 2?)

GOT THEM GOING IN THERE OWN TANK DO i NEED TO MOVE THE PARENTS FROM THE TANK (DO THEY EAT THE EGGS/WRIGGLERS) ONCE EGGS ARE LAYED

Yes remove the parents, they will eat the eggs.

congratulation

by the way what species?? was it the bronze cats

can corys be easily bred?

Some can be very hard to breed, where as some are real easy. Pandas are not hard to breed, its just that they do not have big spawns like the albinos/bronze.

oh crap...my corys still aint breeding yet. i have 20 mature ones sitting in a 20L bare tank and some females are really FAT!

mmm dont you think that its a bit tooo many in a 20L tank.. got any other tanks. I like 3 males to 2 females in cories. Try them in a 2ft if you can.. leae them in there for 2/3 days..feed them well. On the 4th day do a cold water change (af night, thats when i do them), so drop the temp by 5-8 degrees and then watch what happens.

mmm dont you think that its a bit tooo many in a 20L tank..

i think so too...:lol:

got any other tanks.

nope...running out of tanks haha....

I like 3 males to 2 females in cories. Try them in a 2ft if you can.. leae them in there for 2/3 days..feed them well. On the 4th day do a cold water change (af night, thats when i do them), so drop the temp by 5-8 degrees and then watch what happens.

will do that....my last spawn was like 500-600 eggs....after that...they never hit it off again... :-?

wooooooooooooow

Are these giant cories? what happened to the eggs

yea...the females are pretty huge...i mean fat ass!!! and males are long....i think they are too old.....

oh yea..they eggs fungied...and i just left with a few babies...so i didnt bother raising them up because it was not a big batch of frys