New fishes!

[spiral_72]

I just picked up a couple Albino Corydoras from the LFS. I've always
used Petsmart because they had the cleanest looking tanks and the
cheapest prices. Bad move. Now I have found Wolfgang, the local fish
guy.

His store is incredible. I was very impressed. I brought my fish home
and noted immediately they were healthier than any I've had. I bought
two female Corys from him THREE INCHES LONG!!! I had no idea they made
em' that big! There is no doubt the little guys were worth the extra
dollar I paid, per fish.

I think I am going to have to seperate them from my main tank. Hehe,
The two deprived males in the tank went crazy. They won't leave the new
fish alone. The males follow the females around "sniffing" them
constantly.

[Mary Burns]

I saw 2 albino cories at my LFS, a healthy 2.5" that someone had returned
when they got too big. My 2 albino are already bigger than my peppered,
heading towards 2", so just maybe they will get to 3" in their own time.
"spiral_72" > wrote in message
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>I just picked up a couple Albino Corydoras from the LFS. I've always
> used Petsmart because they had the cleanest looking tanks and the
> cheapest prices. Bad move. Now I have found Wolfgang, the local fish
> guy.
>
> His store is incredible. I was very impressed. I brought my fish home
> and noted immediately they were healthier than any I've had. I bought
> two female Corys from him THREE INCHES LONG!!! I had no idea they made
> em' that big! There is no doubt the little guys were worth the extra
> dollar I paid, per fish.
>
> I think I am going to have to seperate them from my main tank. Hehe,
> The two deprived males in the tank went crazy. They won't leave the new
> fish alone. The males follow the females around "sniffing" them
> constantly.
>

[Tom Randy]

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 06:34:30 -0800, spiral_72 wrote:

> I just picked up a couple Albino Corydoras from the LFS. I've always
> used Petsmart because they had the cleanest looking tanks and the
> cheapest prices. Bad move. Now I have found Wolfgang, the local fish
> guy.
>
> His store is incredible. I was very impressed. I brought my fish home
> and noted immediately they were healthier than any I've had. I bought
> two female Corys from him THREE INCHES LONG!!! I had no idea they made
> em' that big! There is no doubt the little guys were worth the extra
> dollar I paid, per fish.
>
> I think I am going to have to seperate them from my main tank. Hehe,
> The two deprived males in the tank went crazy. They won't leave the new
> fish alone. The males follow the females around "sniffing" them
> constantly.


I LOVE cory cats! Got 4 albinos and one bronze in a 10 gal with 6
Harliquin Rasboras. Corys are great!

Tom

[NetMax]

"spiral_72" > wrote in message
oups.com...
>I just picked up a couple Albino Corydoras from the LFS. I've always
> used Petsmart because they had the cleanest looking tanks and the
> cheapest prices. Bad move. Now I have found Wolfgang, the local fish
> guy.
>
> His store is incredible. I was very impressed. I brought my fish home
> and noted immediately they were healthier than any I've had. I bought
> two female Corys from him THREE INCHES LONG!!! I had no idea they made
> em' that big! There is no doubt the little guys were worth the extra
> dollar I paid, per fish.
>
> I think I am going to have to seperate them from my main tank. Hehe,
> The two deprived males in the tank went crazy. They won't leave the new
> fish alone. The males follow the females around "sniffing" them
> constantly.


Albino corys are usually Corydoras paleatus (Peppered cory) which
typically stay slightly smaller than the rarer albino version of the
Corydoras aeneus (Bronze cory). Just a little trivia in case you know
which type your males are ;~).
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www.NetMax.tk

[spiral_72]

No, kidding? I didn't know that. I am going to try to research that,
for the chance I have two different genus-(es?)-(ii?)

I would like to try my hand at breeding them. I seperated on of the
males into a 10 gallon tank yesterday. My plans are to seperate the
males/ females until I can get the females ready to spawn. Judging from
the males' behavior when I put the females in the tank with them.....
Spawning won't be a problem.

Two things concern me. The male I separated seemed almost sad in the
new tank. Felt sorry for the little guy. Second, maybe I should move
the females into the new tank instead and condition them there.

What do you think?

[NetMax]

"spiral_72" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> No, kidding? I didn't know that. I am going to try to research that,
> for the chance I have two different genus-(es?)-(ii?)
>
> I would like to try my hand at breeding them. I seperated on of the
> males into a 10 gallon tank yesterday. My plans are to seperate the
> males/ females until I can get the females ready to spawn. Judging from
> the males' behavior when I put the females in the tank with them.....
> Spawning won't be a problem.
>
> Two things concern me. The male I separated seemed almost sad in the
> new tank. Felt sorry for the little guy. Second, maybe I should move
> the females into the new tank instead and condition them there.
>
> What do you think?


They are generally not difficult to spawn. I think the usual ratio is 3
males to each female. They are adhesive egg scatterers. If there aren't
any predators, condition them together. If I can recall when I spawned
corys, they leave the fry alone. The babies look like a whole lot of
jello covering the bottom of the tank after they hatch. I have no idea
if they can breed across the same genus (Corydoras) but different
species. I guess you might need to do some research.

How is your Japanese? This is a good cory site.
http://www.nettaigyo.com/corydoras/encyc/index-e.html
or
http://www.planetcatfish.com/core/
and
http://www.scotcat.com/home.htm
as well as our own Mike Edwardes who frequents the newsgroups.
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www.NetMax.tk

[spiral_72]

Whoa! That's a lot of different species of Corydoras. (looking at your
first link)

Do the females swell noticeably when they are ready to spawn?

I have read several different methods for breeding Corys but it doesn't
sound like there's anyway to tell when they are "properly conditioned."

[spiral_72]

Whoa! That's a lot of different species of Corydoras. (looking at your
first link)

Do the females swell noticeably when they are ready to spawn?

I have read several different methods for breeding Corys but it doesn't
sound like there's anyway to tell when they are "properly conditioned."

my aquarium page, info and pics at:
www.geocities.com/spiral_72/Spirals_page.html

[NetMax]

"spiral_72" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> Whoa! That's a lot of different species of Corydoras. (looking at your
> first link)
>
> Do the females swell noticeably when they are ready to spawn?
>
> I have read several different methods for breeding Corys but it doesn't
> sound like there's anyway to tell when they are "properly conditioned."


I have to admit that the last Cory spawn I was paying attention to would
have been about 30 years ago, but I seem to recall that the females were
slightly plumper (downward rather than from side to side). Their belly
was also a lighter colour from the swelling (though that won't help you
with albinos ;~).

Three weeks on a high protein diet given several times a day and you can
consider them conditioned (imo). To induce spawning (if you need to),
you can jiggle the temperature, water hardness or lighting (in order of
increasing difficulty).

In Axelrod/Shaw's book, Breeding Aquarium Fishes (which incidentally has
C.paleatus larger than C.aeneus by 1/4", but who are you going to
believe.. them or me? ;~), both Corys breed in the same manner (spawning
size is 2-1/4"). Female's belly may get pink prior to spawning.
Conditions are 70 to 80F, 10dgH. Condition the sexes separately. They
talk about slowly raising the tank temperature to 80F and then letting it
drop overnight to 60F (seems a bit extreme to me, I would not drop it
below 68F). Then be ready with fry food for the 150 or so wigglers in
about 5 days (or less depending on water temperature). hth
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