Wow... thanks alot for all that info. :D

No problem. They are happened to be the one I had bred.

What'd you have in the tank for them to spawn on? I have plenty of plants around, both live and plastic. Bunch of un-used sand too. Would that be prefered, or is bare, or something else preferable ...

Be careful with these guys. Once they start, they lay like 200~300 per female every month. And you end up with so many frys that you don't know what to do with them.
I traded some Panda juvi for 5 adults Melanotaenia a year and half ago I think, with my fellow aquarium society member. Although if I ...

Thanks for that Neoncory. The tank is 10.5 gallon, temp is 77F and Ph 6,5. There is a thin layer of smooth grain sand, a little piece of mangrove root and some java moss.

I used to run a air driven sponge filter in the tank, but there was no activity on the corys. Then I decided to try an put in a ...

Congratulation Birger,

I can't wait my group to grow up. Like 2 weeks ago, I finally found some for reasonable price and decide to get them since they have been on my want list for long time. :thumbsup:
They are still like 1" but the person I got them from told me that they should breed in 4~6 ...

Maybe C.Reticulatus?

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/im ... age_id=794

Corydoras "San Juan" are another one that gets misidentified with these in the USA trade.

Ughh you are right, Larry. After little digging and find out that the "San Juan" is C. Bilineatus, although they seem to have more uniformed crisp lines/marking and didn't see the difference of color ...

Thanks Ian.

It seems I need more careful observation :shock: when I go there again. Especially the body shape.

One more question.

So you think that is it possible to find them in the U.S? I mean, are there any chance of the fish I saw are actually C.Undulatus? Or could it be one of those C ...

Hi all,

Once again I need to pick some Corydoras nut brain.

How rare are the C.Undulatus, especially in U.S?

Yesterday I went to the local store and ready to buy those after I saw them week ago or so, and did some research about them.
Although I didn't find much information but at least so ...

Congratulation Frank,

It maybe putting some on the auction, they sense the urgency and need to start spawning. Or else evicted from nice home with frequent meal service. :wink:
No, I believe it was paying top dollar to acquire 50 more. I told a friend of mine after I placed the order, "Watch ...

Congratulation Frank,

It maybe putting some on the auction, they sense the urgency and need to start spawning. Or else evicted from nice home with frequent meal service.

First sorry about your Pandas,rimbaudsarm.

And second I agree with MatsP. Since Panda is originally came from the cooler temperature water river although most of them are many, many generation away from the wild specimen.

Since you have not provide enough information. I'll tell you what works ...

I think it is just an underfed and somewhat misshapen common Corydoras paleatus. Other than it is a starved fish it is what the males look like after they are 18 to 24 months old.
I conclude this based on my local knowledge of the wholesale tropical fish business in Seattle where Neoncory lives ...

When you look at groups of these fish they show characteristics from both species, making it virtually impossible to tell what species they actually are.

Ian

Hi Ian,

May I ask the charactristics of C.Longipinnis?(I post the thread asking for the difference between the C.Longipinnis and C ...

Hi.

:?: Are there a easy way to tell them apart between C.Longipinnis and C.Paleatus? :?:

I recently aquired some young group of "Peppered Corys" off internet auction site. Anyway, the picture on the web looked like C.Longipinnis with longer dorsal fin and all.
But I know C.Paleatus could ...

Hi fmueller,

I'm glad you enjoy read my experience.
I guess I must had missed collect more than few eggs. Because last week or so, I saw this little 1/2"TL fry foraging the sands. :D And few days later I saw 3 of them at same time. They are just finish transform to the adult coloration and I ...

I am sorry to hear your loss.

What is their tank mates? I don't see anything particulary but about your water parameter. Although I do wonder about the hardness of water. GH
And tank stock level. So what fish and how many of what in the tank beside the Corys?

Well, this morning I saw something make you smile and warm your heart. :wink:

As usual, I was syphoning out some water so I can use the water to change the fry tanks. And I notice a dark egg on the root part of Java Fern. And I thought I missed the egg from few batch earlier. Anyway I try to pick ...

Congraturation Amanda,

So they laid 40~50 eggs, then? I hear they tend to leave eggs in the cruster on the top corner glass?
I also heard that male can be territorial when they are in the breeding condition, of course the tank size play the part, I'm sure. But your sex ratio is probably good thing ...

What color of sands/gravels do you have?

I know sometime, some of the Corys can change their color to make themselves blend in better to their surroundings. They do not change instantly but over the few days, they can either darken or lighten their color.
It happened to me when I had my C ...

Hey cartouche,

That is so interesting. Especially I, too recently obtained some C.Duplicareus although they were marked as C.Adolfoi at the local store.
They are not quite adult yet but another few months, they should be ready to produce some eggs for me. Although they have clean bright colors ...

I had a group with 2 females and 3 males (one female has died since). I have some young fish also (offspring from my own group and some bought in Germany) that i hope to get en new breeding group out of :)

Hi kim m,

Are you talking about the CW009, right? I should get them next week.

I just ...

Hi corybreed,

I don't mean to disagree with someone who had done it before. But the thing I learned from reading and tips from people, it sounds like their problem and difficulty lie at raising frys successfully and not make them spawn. Like what you said, they are not paticularly tough to breed ...

Nice how those melanotaenia go :) ...unstoppable!

Good or Bad. They sure lay many viable eggs. I have about 110 hatched at the time of this writing and another 50 or so should hatch during the day, out of 180 eggs from Saturday. And I expect same thing tomorrow with the batch from yesterday ...

Hi nice to hear from you, Coryologist. :) Especially after the misunderstanding I make you go through. Hi. Ancient history and not a problem. :D And mail ordered some CW009, Albino Sterbai and Similis. So I am most likely look for some good tips from someone who had them before. Well, I have had ...

Hi kim m,

I knew I can count on you popping in. You always have some experience with the specie of Cory I need help with.

I've bred the CW009 last year.

Hopefully I can say that before next year.(spawning this year)

They spawned 3 times in a tank with water of pH around 7, TDS around 100 ...

Hi nice to hear from you, Coryologist. :) Especially after the misunderstanding I make you go through.

Anyway, I should pick some up in few days. :P
I also decide to add few more group of Corys today.
I figure I am spending enough time as it is. What the other few more tanks, I thought. I know ...

C. adolfoi are not particularly difficult to breed but as you rightly say they are extremely difficult to raise. The fry actually need to be swimming if food soup, because they just do not search for it. One trick is to put the C. adolfoi fry with the fry of another easy to raise species and what ...

Hello,

I have 7 adolfoi that I am trying to breed for over a year, now.
They are alone in a 50ltr tank with daily water changes of 20%. Temp 26º, pH 6.5 and low conductivity. Not a single egg. I guess they are very hard to breed.
In Portugal they are extremly rare in stores, I maneged to get some ...

Hi All,

I am wondering if anyone here have been kept C. Adolfoi successfully and possibly bred them.

Since I am considering getting some of them. I was at the local fish store yesterday and saw pretty nice looking ones. They are not quite adult yet but pretty close, probably about 1 1/2" SL and ...

Thanks for sharing your experience, dundermez

I am in the process of moving the frys in 10G to 20. And the frys in 5G to 10. Hopefully next month or 2, I can move the frys from 20 to new home. And all the moving and shuffling all over again. Since I still get eggs from Pandas and Sterbais ...