after hatching, they will not feed for a few days till they absorb their yolk sacks. for multiple egg layers like bronze, peppered, sterbai etc..., I start off with microworms and then feed small grindel worms when they are big enough (around 1week) for single egg layers (pandas, duplicareus, weitzm...

if you keep the sand depth at ~1cm, you don't really need to clean it, the corys sifting will keep the sand healthy.

Anyone try Estes Aqua Sand - Black? Would like to know if it's safe for corys

http://www.bigalspets.ca/aqua-sand-black-5-lb.html

my corys and other fish get New Life Spectrum thera pellet foods as their staple. I aslo feed live grindal/white worms fed on instand oatmeal. They go crazy for the live worms, digging their snouts deep in the sand :d IF you intend on starting a live grindal/white worm culture, look up how to cultur...

yep, my otos try to suck the body slime off my corys but only during feeding time. Fortunately the corys will shake them off so I'm not too worried. If the otos stay on for some time, you should remove them.

Is it a mature tank/filter? if it is you shouldn't have problems with ammonia. I'll be doing a major change of tanks soon (moving substrate, fish and decorations to a newer tank) and here's my plan. 1) get a spare tank or any type of temporary container 2) fill this spare tank/container with water f...

If that is your whole group, there doesn't seem like a fat plump female. Feed them heavily on FBW and especially live worms (white or black). Need to get the females nice and fat first

Collected 3 eggs from my mix cory tank a few months ago while doing maintenance. Not sure which corys they were until they developed their markings. upto this stage, it looks like a duplicareus fry: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/vf1a/duplifry2.jpg but after further maturity, something odd, ...

awesome, those are really nice looking males. Do they require cool water like barbatus?

Their first spawning resulted in all infertile eggs. Their second time, there were fertile eggs and they hatched a few days ago. For such big corys, their fry are similar in size to other multi egg layers (sterbai, bronze etc..) Here's a pic of a fry, the plant is a piece of taiwan moss. http://img....

I've not witnessed any agression from my fowleri even during spawning. I do see one of the males chase the female weitzmani on occasion though, but nothing serious

A question for the cory experts, can someone tell me if these are fowleri/coriate or semiaquilus? My amateur eyes think they are not semiaquilus because they don't have as much black markings? These also came from a Peru exporter and were listed as Huanta.

Couldn't get them to accept any dry food, so I decided to move them out of my 30gal mixed cory tank and into their own 20gal tank for easier feeding. After 3 weeks of feeding heavily on white worms, fbw and cherry shrimps, they decided to spawn

with the thicker black band on the back, they are duplicareus. Are adolphoi considered rarer? because I prefer duplicareus over adolphoi

An alternative to sand is very fine gravel, grain sizes around 1mm. This is what I use in my cory tanks, and I've experienced no barbel loss, the corys can dig in it and it's heavier than sand so not as messy.

When you clean your filter media, do you use tap water or tank water?

Wonderful congrats

Awesome pics, yes please share more pics of the Schleromystax barbatus . Did you catch any other corys?

recheck your nitrate levels, it shouldn't be zero.

Thanks for the suggestions, problem is they didn't even take the frozen bloodworms that I gave them. Atleast with the frozen bloodworms they sucked it into their mouths but out they went through their gill plates @-) Guess I'll fatten them up with whiteworms/cherry shrimps then try the starving meth...