In this video I'll cover my approach to breeding and raising Panda Corydoras. I'll explain the methods I used for triggering spawns, hatching eggs, and raising the fry.
Excellent as always. I bred a lot of corydoras and panda is in my opinion (once started) one of the easiest. I say once started because it's really difficult to find a good strain in the shops. For my breeding group I have presently, I bought 8 of them and when they were big enough to breed I was left with only 3 of them (now I have about 40). Not to be unpleasant (because all fishes deserves respect of course), I'm not a big fan of your breeding stock, to me the body is not as white and the spots as black as you can hope for a panda. (please don't take it wrong :) ) What I like about their breeding is their big yolk sack (at least twice as big as an lineage 7 as aeneus), which let them eat brine shrimp directly after it's absorbed and the fact that they spawn almost every day, so you can train and make rookie mistake. If you having problems breeding corydoras panda but it's seems your doing everything right, 2 things to know : Panda are eggs eaters (so provide mops and check it every day), and put current. (I mean so much current that the sand in front of the tank is blown). Results garanteed! Thanks for you videos :)
To add to your tannin experiments, I've used it as an antifungal when hatching emerald rasbora. I only counted 9 eggs from the spawn. They were my first fish to breed and I wasn't really prepared for it. I used tannins as an antifungal as it's what I had on hand. The moss patch they spawned had a bit of debris in it and I didn't sort the eggs out from viable to non viable. I had 9 fry hatch and waited 5 days after the first hatch to remove the moss incase there were any late hatching. All this being said my set up wasn't ideal for preventing fungus growth from bad eggs and I would imagine it would have spread to the good eggs if it wasn't for the tannins
I’m so excited for the Apisto Agassizii. They’re my favorite SA dwarf cichlid and I eventually would like to attempt to breed a pair of my own in the future.
I bread cory pandas without even trying. Just looking at the tank one day and boom there they were. Not only that my hillstream loaches also had babies without me doing anything. people said to remove the fry or they will not survive, I didn't bother removing them and not only are they surviving they are thriving. The other fish in the tank do not bother the fry. They say hillstream loaches are hard to breed, I would beg to differ lol. Edit: My tank PH is also around 7.8 - 7.9. I too would like a little lower ph but the fish seem to be fine with 7.9. I do not chase PH 7.9 is just where the tank wants to be. I also run CO2 in the tank so during lights on the PH does drop and goes back up during lights off.
Perfect timing. I'm trying to breed my first/second species, paleatus corydoras (other is longfin blue danio, doing at the same time). Been using the Sterbai video as reference, and this is just perfect for more help.
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Great video. Thanks for putting this content. It is very useful for newbies. I was curious about the breeder box you are using. I haven't seen one like that before. Where could I get it?
Timely video…just got six panda corys -will be my first time breeding so this info is super helpful. Question - where did you get the breeding box where you raised the fry?
That particular breeding box is something I designed and 3d printed. Other good options I would recommend are the german breeding ring from swiss tropicals or a fluval hang on tank breeding box with foam blocking the outflow
I really enjoy your videos. I have two Cory varieties, both different from the ones in your videos, and your videos have helped me get fry from both. Do you have an idea how large they should be before they would be safe from being eaten by adults of the same variety? When are we getting the Chili Rasbora video? Have they spawned for you yet?
Probably a couple weeks or so. I think the adults can recognize pretty early that the fry are not something they want to eat. It's the really early days where they look more like a worm or an insect larvae that you really have to worry about it.
thank you for the video! I've always been curious about wether using tannic acid will yield better or similiar result as methyl-blue, wether they can be use interchangebly that is. Since getting dry leaves are much easier than getting methyl-blue where im from. there are surprisingly not many video made about/including this comparison. On that note, are there any noticible difference using tannins? Are the egg mortality rate comparable to methyl-blue or is it better or worse? Since everything has its pros and cons. Again, thank you for the video, and happy new year!
My suspicion is that tannins are a slightly weaker anti fungal but they both work very well. One thing I would do differently is run the concentrated tannic water through a coffee filter to avoid bringing any fine solids. It's just more debris to potentially accumulate on eggs.
@@MakeMoreFish ahhh they look sick would you be willing too produce more and sell them ? I see a lot of potential with them they look perfect for raising cories lol
Wild corys start to spawn in the rain season. Rain is very acidic, that is when they sense rain that they become triggered. Rain = Acid. More current. Cooler temperature. No one will ever be able to perfectly emulate real rain water, there is that ozone smell comming along with it. I think it's important for the fish but I wouldn't recommend adding ozone in an aquarium since it kills bacterias. The best way to trigger a cory will always be to do a water change with real rain water. Given that you're not that kind of maniac that will change 60% in one shot (of course)... Doing a 10-15% every day for a couple of days will be good. Another good method is to add vitamin C in the water. It is an acidic product that is very good for any fish health. 1 gram is enough to lower a 10 gal aquarium water PH by a whole point (or more) so be carefull with your measurements. I don't recommend adding it all one shot in the tank but rather in 24 -48 hours a few drops at a time. You should see your cory change their behavior pretty quickly.
Great video Lowell! Panda corys are great for breeding they’ll always be a popular fish! I’ve always known my water was hard but I picked up a tds meter the other day 636ppm was not expecting that at all! My plants and fish are great but the only breeding I’ve ever had was some cpds. I’m assuming that hard of water is a big factor for a lot of fish not breeding for me? I always hear about a tds of 150 or so being the prime area
That certainly seems high, but not knowing what composes the dissolved solids I'm not sure if that would make anything harder for you or not. There are many species that would be perfectly comfortable breeding in hard water though. Plenty to try :)
@@MakeMoreFish I’ve really fallen in love with killifish recently and I have a 15g waiting to be stocked might try my hand at a pair of them 🤞🏻 would love to see Lowell breed some killis soon
Negative, haven't really worked on it either. There's something I need to learn that will make a difference, until then I would just be spinning wheels
@@MakeMoreFish I tried using the cpd method, but no luck. I filled the bottom of a ten gallon with java moss and am feeding live bbs twice a day. I'm going to try pulling them out in two weeks and seeing if that worked.
Hello :) thank u for the new video it is very good like always. Could you please tell the name of the nano pellet u are feeding to the Pandas and their juveniles? Please keep it coming i love good breeding videos 😍 happy new year
Wait, now I'm curious, Tanins help combat fungal outbreaks? Been the 1st time I heard of this in the solo 30 yrs of my fish keeping.. -i just like the natural look it puts off :)
It certainly appears that way in my testing. I don't think I would count on it to combat disease but it does seem to slow fungal growth on eggs for a few days. Not halt completely but slow.
Do you feel there is any possible negative to adding Fry to a 40 gallon too soon? I have three spawns of 30-45 each that are within three weeks of each other. Have never had a quantity this high and close together and putting multiple smaller tanks will take up a lot of my space. Only worry I’m aware of is making sure they find the food but with 100+ in a 40 I’m sure I’ll just be burning through food
You will probably get some out competition. I would expect a portion of the fry to eat more, grow faster and have a bit of a growth stunting impact on the smallest of the group. You can overfeed a bit to try to push through but that makes more maintenance to sustain without hurting water quality. It's a trade off.
Hi Lowell, I would just like to ask what kind of filtration you use on your corydora setups? Would a strong sponge filter and cheap water pump work alright for breeding or should I get a canister filter?
In this particular tank there is a powerhead pumping water to another 10 gallon tank above it which in turn overflows through a bulkhead back down to the main tank. There is a large sponge filter in the top tank that probably does most of the biological filtration. It's a fun setup but doesn't need to be replicated. Anything that creates a region of flow near the spawning mop should do it. The only thing I'm not a fan of is placing a sponge filter under the mop. The bubbles get caught on the mop strands and tend to lift it up in an undesirable way. In the past I've used small, inexpensive submersible pumps to create directional flow if the tank's normal filtration wasn't suitable for it.
hello there my name is wayne i live in the uk i hope you dont mind me asking where did you get the container that you put the eggsing in first then the 2nd tub any help would be gratefull many thanks wayne
The first is a Lee's specimen container. They are also called dip and pour containers I think. The second is a 3D printed enclosure that I made. There's a link in the pinned comment to more info
Hi, just wanna as, if I have shrimps along with my breeding corys, will shrimp bother the eggs? And will the snails (bulustra, ramshorn, trumpet) do the same?
@@MakeMoreFish thanks! I've been having issues with getting my fry to grow. I feed them 2-3 times daily as well so I assume it's just because the grow out bin is a bit small.
I've been getting the impression lately that many corydoras species prefer temps a little cooler than we typically keep them. Still, I think I would stick to at least the low 70s. You might get there just from lights and other equipment running
Pretty interesting, I have the albino Cory's, can they be done the same way ? I woke up to a 75 gal aquarium with eggs on all 4 walls & with just 6 Cory's.
Albino cories (aneus) are imo the most fun to breed, you wake up to lots of eggs very often Unlike most other species who breed a lot less and with smaller numbers
They can spawn once or twice a week for weeks or months at a time. I've never tried to find how long that can be sustained but I think it's fair to say they can produce an overwhelming number of offspring.
I'd encourage you to skip the freeze dried tubifex. I used them for years and recently had a can of Hikari. I was losing fish to some odd whirling/twisting disease. After MONTHS of a couple hundred dollars of medicines, I realized that I only lost fish a couple days after feeding the tubifex. I only used it occasionally. I tossed the can in the trash, and haven't lost a fish since, 6 months later.
Were they killing your fish consistently for the years that you used them? I would stop using any food that I had good reason to suspect was harming my fish but this sounds more like an unfortunate but anecdotal experience.
@@MakeMoreFish Oh, no they were ok up until that point. However I lost so many fish and so much money before I figured it out that I'm never using Tubifex again. The problem is common to Tubifex and usually the freeze drying process kills the bacteria that cause whirling disease. This is a known problem from tubifex worms especially in the salmon farming industry, but it's definitely something that can happen to aquarium fish. I realize that I got a "bad batch" and it's probably rare. Thankfully rare. And I don't blame Hikari. Even still. I'll never use tubifex again. It's a known possibility. And, freeze-drying doesn't kill all bacteria, it puts some of them dormant Watching my gouramis, mollies, swordtails, angelfish, rams, and apistogrammas whirling around until they die. I lost a fish two to three times a week. I eventually realized it only happened after feeding tubifex, so I googled around and discovered whirling disease. For what it's worth, I really appreciate your videos! This was very informative.
Wow such a good video - YOU do fish where some others do self promotion, BS or marketing! - A double edged sword there- maybe why it took so long to find you! I will be following. Keeping fish simple was my first find in the hobby or (albeit rejuvenated but now serious - 8 tanks so far) just a google search - great content.
