Please post your breeding tanks.
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Please post your breeding tanks.
I have been planning for a few months already to separate some cories and hoping i can breed. i bought 2 15 gallon tanks. planning to use really fine sand. and a sponge filter?
can you guys please post your breeding setup?
also what maintenance do you do for your breeding tanks?
can you guys please post your breeding setup?
also what maintenance do you do for your breeding tanks?
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Re: Please post your breeding tanks.
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i have prepared 2 15 gallon tanks with really fine sand, but so far have not transferred cories yet. Anyone has pictures of his breeding setup?

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Re: Please post your breeding tanks.
My first question would be -- What cories? For "normal" or more common varieties, I generally use a breeding group in a bare 5 gallon tank and pull the fish after the eggs are laid. Hydrogen Peroxide or Meth Blue for fungus and then do a partial water change daily until they hatch. Feeding is problematic, but sieved egg yolk works, moving to BBS and on to flake/pellets as they grow out.
In other varieties, I set up a community in a 20L (fit my racks better than 15's do) with about half decently planted, 1/4" sand bottom and plenty of "rubble" for fry to hide in. I have fewer problems with feeding/raising, but get far fewer to adult size this way. Still others get spawning mops which are pulled to a 5 gallon and raised as above. It all depends on the variety and how badly I want/need to have maximum production.
No pictures, but nothing special that is hard to duplicate from just the words.
Jeff
In other varieties, I set up a community in a 20L (fit my racks better than 15's do) with about half decently planted, 1/4" sand bottom and plenty of "rubble" for fry to hide in. I have fewer problems with feeding/raising, but get far fewer to adult size this way. Still others get spawning mops which are pulled to a 5 gallon and raised as above. It all depends on the variety and how badly I want/need to have maximum production.
No pictures, but nothing special that is hard to duplicate from just the words.
Jeff
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Re: Please post your breeding tanks.
i breed bronze cories wih ease they are in a catfis htank with some bristlnose.
if just well fed and not disturbed that often, after a water change my bronze cories breed. reccomend a very small amount of water movement. thats where my cories usually lay eggs and its a good place to lay eggs so no fungal spores manage to just land on it
if just well fed and not disturbed that often, after a water change my bronze cories breed. reccomend a very small amount of water movement. thats where my cories usually lay eggs and its a good place to lay eggs so no fungal spores manage to just land on it