I used the search link to see if anyone has already posted something like this and i didn't find anything so....does anyone know how to breed cory cats? can you give me all the info that you know please? Thanks in advance. 
Cory cat breeding?
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The info i can give you is very limited. I kept a tank with mixed fish such as angels and mollies once. I had 5 albino corys cats in it aswell. I decided to change the decor one day and woke the next morning to find the cory cat female laying eggs all over the place. I wasnt trying to breed them but she went and did her thing. I left the parents in the tank and the next day they were all gone. From what i have read its best to take the parents out till babies are free swimming or pull the eggs out and incubate them somehow under a light. Not really my breeding area but thats all i know as far as corys go,lol
Whenever I do a large water change with cooler water, my Corys go at it. The eggs always get eaten by my pleco though. Check www.plantcatfish.com . They have a whole section for Cories, and alot of those guys spawn them almost daily.
I used to breed them, C.aeneus to be specific. Id always keep 1 mature female and a group of 2-3 males with her. 10G tank works fine...Id always drop the temperature a couple of degrees with a massive waterchange. Theyed spawn all over the tank...after they spawned Id let them tend to their eggs before they hatched(they turn a deep golden tan color...usually about 3 days later depending on temperature) and then Id move them onto another 10G tank. Id condition my colony on a diet of bloodworms, mysis and spirilina and a week or two later repeat proccess if it hadnt already happened.
All you need is a 10G tank, a small heater, sponge filter and very sparse decor. I put a thin layer of playsand on the bottom...they seemed to like that. The fry were hardy and I had very few casulties...I hatched baby brine shrimp and used a commercial fry food for them until they were large enough to take frozen fish foods and sunken flake food. They would also feed off the sponge filter
All you need is a 10G tank, a small heater, sponge filter and very sparse decor. I put a thin layer of playsand on the bottom...they seemed to like that. The fry were hardy and I had very few casulties...I hatched baby brine shrimp and used a commercial fry food for them until they were large enough to take frozen fish foods and sunken flake food. They would also feed off the sponge filter
MCHRKiller;1162302; said:I used to breed them, C.aeneus to be specific. Id always keep 1 mature female and a group of 2-3 males with her. 10G tank works fine...Id always drop the temperature a couple of degrees with a massive waterchange. Theyed spawn all over the tank...after they spawned Id let them tend to their eggs before they hatched(they turn a deep golden tan color...usually about 3 days later depending on temperature) and then Id move them onto another 10G tank. Id condition my colony on a diet of bloodworms, mysis and spirilina and a week or two later repeat proccess if it hadnt already happened.
All you need is a 10G tank, a small heater, sponge filter and very sparse decor. I put a thin layer of playsand on the bottom...they seemed to like that. The fry were hardy and I had very few casulties...I hatched baby brine shrimp and used a commercial fry food for them until they were large enough to take frozen fish foods and sunken flake food. They would also feed off the sponge filter
very good advice, but I would also add that you need to keep the eggs in a dark place, and get some antifungal like meth. blue to keep fungus from destroying the eggs.
Agreed...Ive never had a need to use any sort of medication if I left my breeders with their eggs. Granted alot of corries will eventually eat their eggs. Thus alot of people will go on ahead and remove the breeders after the eggs are lain, and dose with the meth. blue
i just cleaned out the filter on my oscar tank a few days ago. it had originally been the angels/cories/tetras tank 2.5 months ago until they all moved to a new 150. i found 3 baby cories that had been living inside of my emperor 400 for at least 3 months. one of them actually lived in the filter stem, fighting the impeller and too big to escape out through the intake strainer.