I like your fact-based, almost engineering-oriented approach to breeding fish. So far you have been my top guide to breeding. Amazing content as usual!
As always, absolutely in love. My only complaint is that you don't make more videos more frequently lol. I love the way you describe your thought process. It makes things so much more clear.
I absolutely love your videos Mr.Lowell, most of the profiles I see, even on my channel are just basic background information. But you only speak form experience and trial with the species. You deserve subscribes in the millions!
Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed watching. You’ve encouraged me to breed more Corydoras. I’ve breed Panda Cory’s before with even trying. I was constantly having Panda Cory from two females. I moved to another state and sold my pandas as two pairs. I sold all my fish, Cherry Srimps, Red Ram Horns Snails, and beautiful plants.
When the first green and gold lasers appeared on the market here in the UK, they were all high priced due to their strikingly fabulous colours and their rarity in the hobby. My LFS got a few in priced at £20 in 2001. They sold fairly slowly, and when the owner wanted to order more, he was told by the wholesaler that they were limited by the numbers that were being imported. Thus, the prices have remained high ever since. Despite the numerous tank raised fishes now available, these species are still 30 to 40% more expensive than other, easily bred species. So, IMO, it may be a case of the dealers trying to keep their profit margins up, because the sheer abundance of bronze or peppered corys is as great as their popularity but the mark-up on these common species is insufficient to make a living.
Fantastic video. And a great question regarding cost. Where I may disagree is in your theory they are unknown and low demand. Gold, Orange and Green lasers are among the first to go on good websites and the swaps I attend. That group you have could fetch several grand. Easy!
Do you sell the STLs for those breeders? I either need to bust out my CAD software and/or my 3D printer and get some of these made lol I love your videos btw. Got me into breeding fish again!
What your saying is very true on the pricing . There in the same family as most common albino Cory's and they can have hundreds of babies at any one time. But again another awesome video thanks for sharing 💗👍✌️💯
If you want to spawn another corydoras species, I’d highly recommend C. Pygmaeus. They are relatively simple to breed with patience, and are different from other corydoras in almost every way.
@@MakeMoreFish Cool! Also, I do want to mention that you have some of the most innovative content in the Fishkeeping hobby. Your scientific approach to breeding fish is unlike much else I’ve seen on the platform.
I really appreciate your videos! I have some cherry barb fry (semi-accidentally) and just pulled a small batch of cory eggs into a hang on tank after following your videos.
It's very odd that they're priced so high. I've heard that they're expensive because they're a relatively new species, but CPDs were dicovered in 2006, same with the panda garra, and they're no more expensive than rosy tetras where I live. If I could ever get my hands on some I would attempt to flood the market and have their prices lowered. Also, if I remember correctly, they're part of the same grouping as the bronze cory, y'know, the cheapest and most common Corydoras species in most fish stores.
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I have one gold laser (included in error in an order I got of pandas), it's in a community tank with bronze and albino cory so all good. A few days ago I saw it spawn with an albino, so I saved the eggs and am hatching them out in your fry try to see what they turn out to be. Wasn't planning on that cross but my curiosity set in and had to save the eggs.
ive ordered a big group of gold per cories, they are basically gold lasers but entirely gold. this guide also worked for my albino aneus, so i hope the guide will also work on my peru golds soon
Loving your vids! Apistogramma brought me to channel as a long long time keeper and breeder of this wonderful species. Can't wait for the Elizabethea..... I've not kept them for a few years but bred them many times years back and found they needed pretty low PH in my case to get hatches, most of mine were wild caught though. Great vids, great job with the Cory's, new subscriber and fan here in UK🙂
I have some bronze cories and they spawn like crazy (even though "I" suck at breeding fish), had them for a long time, but they're super panicky to the point I gave up and just keep the tank covered, let them go about their business. Some cories I had (sold) I hand fed them as fry and juveniles. I believe there is a chance for them to lose that classic cory panic behavior if they are hatched in one aquarium and allowed to grow there, never moved out of it, and hand-fed. Something that could be fun to test. I can confirm good hatch rates and survivability without methilene blue or other sterilizers, in a STERILE environment. All cories I spawned and grown successfully, I did not remove the eggs, I removed the recipient containing them and placed them in a recently set tank. Raised almost 200 juveniles there. Sure some died and I didn't see but it's still huge success comparing to when I tried to set them in a tank with mulm and debris or even when I removed the eggs myself, I think even a gentle touch damages them. Eggs would either develop fungus when the tank was dirty even though it was running for months without fish there and water replaced, or fry would die after a few days. So, mulm is highly unlikely to be beneficial to the fish, contrary to the opinion of some "experts". EDIT: They might be so expensive because you had "only" 80 fry. I had just one female and she easily drops over 100 eggs. She is about 2yo now.
I finally found someone online who had gold lasers in stock. I've gone cory crazy. I ordered 4 which will make the 9th species of corys in my 55g denison barb tank. I run 2 seachem tidal 110s just ti make sure there's enough biomedia for the load, I've got just a couple of each species except I've got 4 orange Venezuelan
Love your videos so much. Was so happy to see this one because I've literally just acquired 6 Gold lasers corys for a breeding project :) I'm sure I'll be watching this again. What was that small granule you used as the first dry food after BBS?
You should try Corydoras Habrosus. They’d be an interesting challenge as their a dwarf corydoras and they allegedly only lay one egg, an egg the size of a normal corydoras egg.
I have thought about it. I'm trying to figure out the right way to breed some bettas that won't become a problem. My tentative plan is to start with imbellis.
@@MakeMoreFish If by problem you mean needing a separate tank for every male lol I would recommend bettas from a different complex. Ive kept betta albimarginata in larger groups with little to no problem. I try to stay away from the splendens. Even imbellis can be a bit too spicy
@@nicholaskritz9323 Yep that's exactly the problem I mean. I can't lock up a bunch of tanks with a fish that can't cohabitate. Which means not splendens. Of other species I have to find something that can actually move in my local market. It's been a tough choice but I would like to find something that works.
Most amazing and most detailed breeding videos on YT hands down. I also had a question, i had a spawn of these gold lazers and adolfoi corys the same day and when the eggs hatched, all the adolfois died. why do you think?
I can only guess. What were the conditions like where they were hatched? If they hatched looking healthy and then died almost immediately, I would have to assume some kind of toxicity in the water. Even if they starve out it takes a few days
Thanks so much for your videos. It is a joy. I have been wondering as well how the fertilisation works as I have observed it many times with my sterbai, but I never could make sense of it. I have indeed been wondering if the female eats/drinks it and internally fertilises the egg? Glad there is still some mystery...
That is awesome! I have some adult Gold Lasers that I want to breed and was having issues with it. Are you thinking of selling your breeder boxes? I love them.
I wish I had that many gold. Lasers. All my cories don't seem to breed. Except the greens once in a while. Do you think it benefits from having a species only tank? Most of all my. Cories pleco and appistos are in the same tanks together
Should anyone see this post, I have Pandas laying eggs in a tank. I have found eggs in a shrimp feeding glass tube and have moved plants and had them hatch in another tank. The fish can't quit fit in the tube anymore. Would a piece of pvc be a good choice to lay their eggs in?
i really love your vids with some tips. can i ask if what type of filter are you using in this cory tank? also can i ask how often and much do you change the water? :)
They hatch in salt water but I wouldn't say I store them. A single batch is all fed in a single day. I typically strain and rinse them in fresh water before feeding.
Hey, I wanna try crossbreeding gold lasers with pygmys or habrosus, do you think it would work, and is it even a good idea? To me a giant school of pygmy gold lasers running around a tank sound like the best thing every.
I think they might be too far apart genetically to cross breed. I don't see a lot of hybridization but that might be because of the angry fish nerd mob. They don't like mixing genetics. I don't either for the most part. Takes away from the heritage and piece of nature that a fish brings with it. It's not a moral issue though, on that front I think it's neutral. At the end of the day, live your dream.
Was it something about the mop being in the direction of water flow? If so, corydoras like to lay their eggs on surfaces that have water flowing noticeably across them. It's all under water so I understand that being a bit abstract, but consider the water that flows out of whatever filtration you're using. If you place a mop in the direction of that filter outlet, you would see the strands swaying around as the water flows past them. That would be an attractive place for them to deposit their eggs.
@@nicholaskritz9323 does not work for me, I have squeezed and squished until I am blue in the face. Best I have done is pressed a cube to a piece of gravel. But that's still not great.
They do but it takes some effort. You have to get them wet and very forcefully squeeze the air bubbles out. Also the fresher they are the easier they sink I've found.
So glad to see another video from you! I've learned a ton watching your vids and have been able to apply the knowledge to spawning some fish of my own. (EBAs). Can't wait to see the next one.
No other fish. I generally prefer species only tanks for breeding. In general corydoras do eat their own eggs and freshly hatched fry but I have not noticed this species doing it actively.
@@MakeMoreFish thank you. So you remove eggs to another tank? In another tank you have a biological filter? Or just air? Is it possibile to keep eggs inside a breeding box(plastic with holes) in the same tank with parents? Thank you
@@MakeMoreFish Thank you for the reply, do you find these fish are easy to sell or is it hard getting them off your hands (potentially may breed them myself)
Yeah very hard to say if that's a lot. It varies species to species a bit and of course you know there are outliers out there which trust, I get a lot. But I just ordered 4 of these to go in my 55g denison barb/angelfish tank. I've already got 7 species of corys in there, but gold lasers are so hard to find. Spent way too much money on them but they've been on my bucket list of fish. Those and the fairy corys which were surprisingly hard to find. They're often mislabeled. The fairys are probably my favorite right now, but I'm sure the gold lasers will have something to say about who is my favorite cory
