Breeding CORYDORAS in BINS! 

I have been doing this for 40 years and still have to make tweaks as fish refuse to cooperate with my plans and intentions. It is nice to see someone that is not afraid to show things that were perhaps a bit short of success. You are one of the few RU-vidrs I watch and enjoy. It's nice to come back to older videos because I am never done learning and love new ideas. Thank you.

“Remind you guys that I’m human too.” 👏 👏 👏

We have about 75 cory's in 16 different varaities. Here they spawn eggs most of the time when the waterlevel gets lower and the spraybar comes above the waterlevel what mimics rain on water. Mostly they lay their eggs about 3 or 5 cm below the waterlevel on the windows or something that hangs there vertically like the thermometer or the waterinlet. I roll the eggs from the windows and put them in a seperate little tank of 20 liters with an airpomp. The first month we give them Artemia and Dapnia (dried powder) This way is very succesfull for us and raised many cory babies.

Than you for sharing this process. I agree that maybe letting the tub season and grow alge. Maybe even place some seasoned structure and plants in the bottom like they had in their tank? I am looking forward to the continuation of this process.

Great learning process! Not a fail in my book, not if you learned and grew as a fish keeper from it. I’m just a beginner with some bettas and I appreciate your videos a ton. I’ve definitely learned a lot from watching this channel :) Keep up the great work!

You culture your own white worms, Sounds like a good next video, simple live foods. I have white and Grindal worms would be great to see how you culture and feed yours. Nice quick video 😉😉 Cheers

I’m glad you shared this. Thank you for the opportunity to learn. It’s all a learning process.

To breed in them bins, I think you should put them outside expose to the sun full of rain water and let them bin age with guppies so alge grow on the walls. I said guppies to stop mosquitoes and produce waste to activate formation of alge, so molly or platy will work too. That is my idea, please don't try painting your bin first most paint are smooth and second toxic. Alge texture and not toxic. I don't think you want to kill your breeders. All the best with your breeding, you are doing good.👍🐟🐟🐟

I love the long videos bro🤘🏾 Keep it up.

I'm a newer subscriber, great video. I like it when creators/breeders show their setbacks and hurdles. Great learning opportunity for you and your viewers. Makes me want to get some tubs and corys and try it. I'm glad you decided to release this one.

I love that you include success and failure. Both are important to the scientific process, but one tends to get more attention than the other.

I have a colony of the 9 Schultzei Black Cory's that spawn for me every few weeks. They are a line bred version of the C. Schultzei, which the non black variety looks very similar to C. Aeneus. I keep them in a standard 20g High tank. They do lay pretty good batches of eggs, but they like to spawn on vertical spaces. Very often times my will spawn in the corners of the top of the tank. In addition to the corners of the tank they love to spawn vertically on jungle vals and another hornwort like plant I have floating in the tank. I would say they spawn in the afternoon, but I haven't found any correlation between waterchanges, but feeding heavy amounts of bloodworms does help a bunch. I find Hikari to work the best as it is a smaller bloodworm. I like to feed two cubes a night- always excess food. Catfish love to eat! I only have a sponge filter, hornwort, jungle vals, and java moss in the tank, on sand. When I do get eggs, the problem isn't hatching the eggs, I have issues raising the fry. Really happy to see another person breeding corys with passion! I never see anybody doing anything with them.

Thanks so much for the book reference 👍🏼 Continue to share your knowledge bro. Best of luck to you on getting those Cory to breed🙏🏼

Chur chur mean video. Gave me some great ideas

I think it was a GREAT idea! Looking forward to seeing how you refine this new breeding method:)

After watching this I set up a bin myself got to say it has worked really well for my peppered Cory's

I'm really excited about your triumph with the black venezuelans!! That is so exciting!!!

Very interesting video. Very useful information. Keep up the good videos!❤❤

Interesting video. Thanks.

It's actually crucial that you cross pipes touching like that, as the corydora can feel the flow and vibrational current of the others and they can actually communicate through it.

Excellent job

You've gone from 12k Subs to 66,000 keep up the great content! Im learning a lot :D

I really enjoyed watching this , what an amazingly interesting hobby this Fishkeeping bizzo is , look forward to seeing how many BV's hatch !!👌

Love the vid mate !

i just ordered some pandas and worm cultures off ur website

Awesome video bro 👍🏻

Great videos. Attemps and fails are part of the hobby! I actually having trouble breeding the black schultzei as well!

Nice video man j love your channel

Pro tip for black venecuela: Put a lot of anubia just floating they will place 90% of the eggs there and you just have to take out anubias when they are done orbefore if you notice they are eating eggs. Try this and thank me later ;D

That's the fun of it❤😊

Thank you for sharing this video

Thx for sharing

Nice system bro👍

I love your vids and i just started watching them today

Love your vids! You need a bigger space though my man. I get claustrophobic just thinking about trying to work in there haha

Very interesting video, wasn't a total failure. It's always good to try new things and experiment. Well done.

An extremely interesting interesting video!

Another great vid bro!

I just purchased several Venezuelan black corydoras and it was a choice between that and the albino. I love the blacks and whites together and in my opinion they compliment eachother in a community tank. Thanks for these informative videos you really love fish! ❤ 🐟

Have you tried changing water level to breed Cories? I feel that with some it's more effective to allow the water to get low (~50% full or less) and then fill it up as they can feel the difference in pressure.

Sweet vid! Even though it wasn’t a total success, I think it was super informative.

Awesome informatibe vid man! Wish you have a more succesfull spawns soon. Cheers!

You could try laying white or light coloured tiles at the bottom of the bins to add visibility to the adults. Its something I've seen done by a few other individuals.

Like you said, this is biology. The failed experiments are nearly as valuable as the successes! They're every bit as educational, and I hope you know we appreciate the content and information!

Bro respect you are doing what you love and making money out of it 😊👍

Thanks for the info I have been trying to breed my back corys for some time now… with no success. I don’t understand why some one would dislike a video like this…

I keep corytanks at max of 30cm tall, helps as the fish don't have to swim to high to Breathe

I found the most awesome bins. At an online restaurant supply house.

still lovin all ya vids bro ive been trying to finda way to breed platies on a budget in a 1 bedroom unit, i think the bin method is a greattttttttt idea! bunnings life haha

I'm new subscriber..I'm from India

Its a bit like breeding the bettas in the small plastic container but at a larger scale

Your fish are the be vyour are the best at keeping this channel up and going. Keep the effort up

Awesome video. I love the long format. Try putting on some Barry White for the fish, half of the human babies conceived during the 1970’s were the result of his music being played. It may just work for cory cats as well.

I had some sterbai in with some discuss ph 6.5 i bred them by accident when i was feeding live white worms and doing weekly water changes with ro water.

Cheap way - good idea.

You make breeding looks easy but I can't even breed bettas 😂

i used to have a lot of success with corys laying eggs on broad leaf plants and i just removed the leaves to to hatch out the eggs

cory gang😎

I have had no issues with breeding Cories. I also apparently keep having bristle nose plecos. Just found a lot of babies again.

You should try a light sprinkle of sand in the bottom of the tubs as a lot of Cory's like to spawn under some sand Tugger Edinburgh Scotland

I just bought 15 Venezuela Cory's.

My Black “Schultzei’s” breed like guppies. Every 2 weeks or so. I guess I’m lucky. I keep good water quality, good food, etc. I don’t use RO - my water is about 200 tds, Ph 7.4. Good luck 👍🏻👍🏻😉😉

I’ve watching these how to vids! Hav you tried lining the trash cans with white thrash bags or painting them white?

Find white tubs maybe?

Live food is a must for breeding corys

What about painting yogurt and buttermilk mixture so it will grow moss is that a possibility

Did you use new sponge filters or cycled sponges? If they were new, the ammonia levels could have interfered.

Is that an external breeding box from Marina on the left? :) I saw it in the beginning of your video and I'm very interested in your experiences with it.

Hey bud, good effort, and it always worth trying something new! In regards to the origins of schultzei black corydoras I made a video on it 👍 C. Schultzei AKA Black Corydoras

Corydoras❤

I've just started breeding my bronze corys. They've always laid viable eggs I've just never let them grow before because I didn't have anything to do with them. Now I'm selling them to a local fish store

Hi Great vid! how big is your betta grow-out tanks?

you can try acrylic in the buckets like a littlr big rectangle piece probably the pole was too narrow for them try an acrylic piece

Eu tô preparando as minhas albinas

Wow never even crossed my mined.

From what I understand is the male deposits the milt infront of the female while she has eggs held in her cupped analfins and as she releases water through her gills it pushes the milt towards the eggs and she will swim forward making sure the milt comes in contact with the eggs before she sticks them to a surface. For further tries get white tubs/trash cans they work way better or if you can't find any get white marine fish safe paint and paint the inside.

maybe put some katapa leaves or eldercones inside. Elder cones got my corys going in 2 weeks.

Love ure videos leaning a lot ,but what the best fish u have breed

Have you thought of using white tubs?

Just a question as I am attempting to breed Sterbei at the moment is your room heated or do you not use heaters for your Corys

Eres el mejor! Saludos desde México 🇲🇽 Una pregunta, dónde conseguiste esos libros?

2:32 800+ Cory's in a 5000 liter bin, Sounds like a large breeding project.

I'm new to the hobby but what about a white tub? That way they couldn't see the eggs?

Thank 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👍

Why have I only now realized you have a store...

Hi and compliment for your passion and your fish farm. For this project in my opinion you have a great idea, but if possible you could increase the success if you use a glass slide instead of mops or pvc pipes. I noticed Corys loves breads and put their eggs on glass and if you use several glass slide (1 at time) till they spamm, every day you could move the slide in a haching acquarium fighting fungus and other problems and every day the cory could spamm on a new and clean glass. Do you believe this idea could works? I make you my best compliments again for your really good works and sorry for my little english

Great videos as always. Just a suggestion, it would be really cool / super helpful, if you could do a quick rundown of the water quality that is used in these breeding videos. You did this in your Tetra breeding video but, I didnt see one here. I think your content is great.. just a little something to help enrich the content. Would be nice to see on all your videos, the following: * PH * Temperature * Hardness

My Corydoras aeneus started spawning after I simulated rain...I had two males and one big female. And I watched the whole spawning, very different type of spawning...the female deposited/stuck the eggs(held in her pelvic fins) on the glass, I couldn't find any eggs on the plants. Corydoras aeneus are also from Venezuela.

Well done on your success. I’m an Aussie that saw your videos maybe 2 years ago and you have come a long well. Good stuff

How are you set up 1 quarium?

Do they need a heater ? What temp ?

Will newly hatched corydora fry be ok living in treated water instead of parents tank water? Thanks.

hi I need some advise im trying to.spawn my gold lasers and everything I do isn't working what are there trigger point please

And they are ok without a heater ??

my corydoras use to breed once I changed the water

Super interesting video, Ive just gotten into corys myself and have hatched my first 5 venezuelan babies. Just a thought, would it be worth trying them in a white tub instead of black?

I think it was this video that had a tank with dozens of angels in the background. I thought we were only to have just a few fish per tank. How can I accomplish this? Thx!

How do you breed corydoras punctuates?

Do you ship your fish to the Philippines?

kitchen trash cans are typically white, so maybe that could help? But, no, this video was NOT a waste of time. I see so many videos that talk about breeding corys, but I hadn't seen much about the behaviors... so thank you!