Easy Corydoras catfish breeding: Eggs to Cory Paleatus Fry! 

Watch the adorable Corydoras fry hatch and grow before your eyes! 😀

I recently got a school of Bandit Corys and while in quarantine, they also spawned. And almost two weeks after moving them to the community tank, I saw little fry roaming around. The quarantine tank is heavily planted and has a large piece of wood in it so there are plenty of hiding spaces. Now it's my Blue Dream shrimp tank with a bunch of baby Bandits.

I guess the eating instinct takes over the continuation of the specie for fish when it comes to them eating their eggs/fry. Judging on the way fish are always seemingly SO interested in eating it's an addiction...ha ha. Never heard anyone talk about this though. I wonder if they are like this in the wild or just in captivity.... They don't seem to be overly nasty to each other as some fish can be at least from what I see here. Corys seem to be more into the search for food swimming about always for this and then hanging out somewhere they feel comfy. I have 5 of these Pepper corys and I really love them. I think they are getting on to being 4 years old. They used to come out though. They've always been in a 10 gallon tank with my one betta. They've taken to not coming out very often though. I feed them and I see them coming out mainly at night...still not as often as I would like...like they used to. I tried to understand if it's the way my tank has evolved over time...it's stable but maybe only some new plants??? Doesn't make sense there. I don't know if somehow my betta spooked them but I watch him and nothing that would seem extraordinary. Maybe they're more sensitive than I realized. My betta has been a bit hangry at times but he's been with them for their entire lives so they must know he's not a real predator threat. Anyway.....that's another topic.. Loved the video! I like to learn new things about fish and your presentations are informative and fun to watch/entertaining in a good way..

Very cool thanks for sharing it with us all

Wow! Those pepper corydoras look so cute and I think I have to try them at one point!

Oh matt this is a fabulous video you are so lucky to have caught all the right moments and share with us all, they are so cute and I cant wait to see an update on them. Have a fabulous day :)

Fantastic! Nice filming and good explanation. I've been going back to look at your other videos. I just hit like and subscribed.

That was so awesome! You have very pretty fish.

Good Video!

Just identified and rescued some Cory eggs from the wall of my aquarium thanks to this video, thanks! Hoping they’ll hatch in the next week or so

My cory pair just started laying eggs , and I'm a newbee in this hobby . I started looking for several videos and yours was the best ☺️ . I did everything exactly like you showed . I'll keep here posted how this goes 😊 so excited. And Thanks so much for this beautiful video

This video was great it caught every moment of the breeding even hatching 👍👍

That was nice one :) Very cool result!

Amazing footage

Fantastic 😊

This guy is amazing I love his videos he is thorough and he is good I recently had a whole bunch of babies hatching as I'm speaking right now

awesome video!!!! thank you

Great video!

Thanks!

Wow, good job. I like you video😊

Hi my friend, fabulous video you are so lucky to have caught all the right moments and share with us all, Like 38

I have 5 Cory catfish and they just bred today!! :) i have a baby catfish i recently got and i was so happy to have a baby catfish, I caught them laying eggs today!!

The high protein diet of Bloodworms with an added rainstorm in your area is enough to spawn them. If I feed bloodworms to my Corys I get eggs in about a week.

Great video, but those Julii's are more difficult to breed than the peppered cories, Sterbais probably similar difficulty as well. As they are bigger fish, with all the action im sure they will eat the eggs if you have a bare bottom tank. I watched the mother a few times, I myself believe she ate the eggs because they were infertile, not because she was hungry.

Before I buy a fish, I ask them wether they spit or swollow

About how long did your eggs take to hatch I have the same Cory’s and mine took 4 days and when do you start feeding them I have 1 fry that’s almost 2 days old then I have 70 eggs that are 2 days old that should hatch soon hopefully they decided to spawn again as soon as the other eggs hatched so that’s why there is a Lonley fry

Just a random sterbai in the mix lol

My Plec was horrible, kept bullying my Cory's even the ones bigger than him.