You should have very few losses if 1. water quality is very good(monitor your ph as lots of food, leads to lots of nitrification, leads to a kh drop, leads to a ph drop, then one starts doing water changes, Ph swings back up, another shock, leads to corys gasping at the surface, death, barbell erosi...

Yes, the cory was fine at a certain salt concentration. That's about how much I can tell from my experience however the balance is thin so I would use caution and if you see the corys staying still, not eating, breathing difficulties, not moving much I'd jump and do a water change and gradually take...

I am bringing up an old thread here. I recently had to treat a tank with salt for the first time because of ich a new clown loach brought.....or so I thought... because I never saw a white spot. Panda corys at salt concentration of 1 tablespoon per 5 gallons of water will die a miserable death I fou...

Thanks Karsten.

Anyone with long term aeneus experience? I would just like to know as I have quite a few of them and it got me thinking planning for the future. There isn't much info you can come across googling this topic.

What is the lifespan of corydoras aeneus?
Different websites are giving different information. One says 5 years, up to 8 years in ideal conditions, the other 10-15 and another 20-25 years.
Planetcatfish doesn't say anything at all.

Gold laser, sterbai, albino aeneus are the ones I have.

Today it just crossed my mind about water splashing on the surface. I keep my two bunches of corys in large tanks which are well overfiltered but they are open top, meaning the water evaporates quite fast each week and just before a water change the spraybars are actually splashing at the water surf...

OK. Fair enough. I understand. I am glad you found a method that works for you. I've done a similar thing before, that's why I don't really like this sort of method I left mine once for a few months without water changes(heavily planted low tech tank). They didn't spawn for the entire low quality wa...

I am not an expert. I've kept cory's for over 5 years. My first bunch is still alive and has always spawned without any intervention and is still spawning. The others are just 2-3 years old. They've never been been fasted and they've always had as good quality food as I can afford. The food I feed a...

Having said that, among animals interspecific hybrids are often sterile (a phenomenon called "decreased hybrid fertility" -- it may seem counterintuitive given the enhanced vigorous growth, but just consider mules), or their fertility can decline over a couple of generations if they do su...

The 4 eggs all appear viable. It's been about 2 days. From previous experience it takes 3 days for them to hatch. Here's a pic of one of the eggs right now. I added some sand in the breeder box to have it ready in case they hatch. http://i1347.photobucket.com/albums/p706/Snezz/CoryEgg_zpsaw8mujo3.jpg

They'd rather be with their own species to be honest. But if you are really stuck other species will do, better with more corys of any type than just the two. I have a lonely cory which I actually saved from being nipped to death in the fish shop. I could never find the same species again as it turn...

Congratulations!!
I wish mine got survivors. I've never had any baby corys pop up out of nowhere. I barely get eggs surviving 10minutes in the tanks, had to sit today stuck to the tank and herd the fish away so I could grab some eggs and then I squished most by accident in the end.

Yes, sorry PabloG. There's lots of good info in that link for other approaches. It's just that when I hear rainy and dry season, no water changes come to mind, lol.

I managed to grab 3-4 eggs today from one of the "hybrid" females before they got eaten. I am not sure who the daddy is though, could be an albino or a hybrid. Anyway, I have them in a breeder box, we'll see. They might not be viable but I want to see if they can produce a viable offspring...

debbeesm23: read this article about "Dry and Rainy Seasons in the Tank" from aquarticles.com written by Kristian Adolfsson. Emulating the Dry and Rainy Seasons is the key to hard species to bred. http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/breeding/adolfsson_dry%20and%20rainy%20seasons.html The e...

I can only give advice about the sterbai. I have 3 sterbai, and a big bunch of aeneus corys. The sterbai don't spawn on the glass. They used to love to spawn on the floating plants I had some time ago. It was impossible to find the eggs when they spawned in the floaters but it was funny watching how...

I wouldn't worry about the current at all as long as some food stays at the bottom and doesn't float all around the place, and as you say the water quality will be fine. However, in my experience corys are really skittish in a small tank. When I kept some in a 15G tank, they were really stressing ou...

I never fasted any of my corys, not for a day unless I forgot to feed them. I think they've been doing fine for years. Why fast them? P.S. The corys are better off in a school of their own kind, not one of each They are social fish, like the company of their own kind and different species of corys m...

Do you have an opinion on whether the planaria would be edible for the little critters...?? If they are food, then I suppose there is no reason to kill them with "No Planaria" or similar "medicine". Not sure if this was answered or not. First make sure you have planaria and not ...

Yes, I agree with the flow. Mine live in high flow naturally and spawn regularly. In one tank I had very high flow over 20x including a large powerhead, the corys kept trying to lay eggs on the sides of the powerhead until I had it. They loved that spot. The babies need access to the surface from ge...

I couldn't get your answer. Do you mean the ones you bought in petsmart crossed with the Shultz and produced hybrids or they were hybrids themselves, and don't spawn? Mine certainly spawn. Next step is to save a few eggs just to see but I want wait around the tank for that and pick the ones from the...

Yes, obviously the result is washed out gold laser variant as you can see on the video. A few years ago when that happened I didn't get a definite response. Someone mentioned that gold lasers could be corydoras melanotaenia http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/image.php?species=corydoras_melanotaenia...

I haven't updated this thread in years!!! But thought some might be interested to hear updates about my "hybrids". I am not so sure after all if a cross between a gold laser and aeneus albino can be called a hybrid, they seem to be the similar species, just different habitat in nature. All...

And gold laser corys for example: The first pic is my own male resting on driftwood. His belly is totally flat no matter how much he eats :d http://i1347.photobucket.com/albums/p706/Snezz/DSCF7367_zpsbalwvan2.jpg This is how a gold laser female look like: http://i1347.photobucket.com/albums/p706/Sne...

Not the same species and I only downloaded them from internet so let me know if I need to remove them, but for example to explain what I mean by the previous comment: I think they are corydoras adolfoi Male: http://i1347.photobucket.com/albums/p706/Snezz/images_zpsb5gcnplg.jpg Female: http://i1347.p...

My best way to sex any corys is to look at them when resting on the sand. Males tend to lie flat on it from top to tail. Their bottom/belly touches the sand all along. Females, eggs or no eggs, have a curve and the area near the head and tail are detached from the substrate. To be more precise, male...

Well, I thought I'll update for future reference. Since my last post I tried low protein diet which didn't change anything. By low protein I mean 34%. Then I tried two types of parasitic treatments over a good period of time as instructed, one was Levamisole Hydrochloride, the other was Fluke Solve ...

I've raised mine without problems on baby powdered food. But I soak it first in a small container with just a bit of water, then use a syringe to pick it up but I squeeze all the water so just the wet powder is left in the syringe(when you turn the syringe upside down the powder settles). Then I car...

Is the betta living with the corys? What meds have you tried so far in the tank with corys? If you are using Kanaplex for finrot on the Betta, it won't work because it's not a med for finrot, it's more for internal bacterial infections. As for bloodworms causing nitrates, it's not the nitrates the p...