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Breeding Catfish? | 8 comments (7 topical, 1 editorial, 0 hidden)
By the way, Breeding Catfish is a lot different (none / 0) (#3)
by unclescott on Wed Dec 20, 2006 at 03:25:35 PM PST

from just keeping them. We didn't give Jaymi the answer she would have gotten in response to her Help! of about a week ago if the season was less busy. Some references to what goes into breeding Corydoras were given. If you Google Guppylog for breeding Corys or bristlenose "plecos", you will get quite a few hits.

You might wish to learn to hatch bbbs (baby brine shrimp) for the purpose of feeding baby guppies (adults love the treat of freshly hatched brine shrimp too). That does involve some expense and maybe even more importantly, some more time and space in one's home. But your guppies will initially grow faster.

If your Corys spawn, you now have a choice of trying to raise 50 to a couple 100 fry or destroying maybe all but 20 and then raising the 20 youngsters in a 10-gallon tank with guppy fry.

That sounds cold, but do you have a 55-gallon tank available for a spawn of the Corys? :) Even when my bristlenose (Ancistrus) would leave the 1-2" sphere of 3/8th" eggs, their numbers began to quickly tax the "carrying capacity" of the 29-gallon tank they were in.

Knowledge of the specific fish, proper diet and feeding, providing a place to spawn, some understanding of what must happen with water temperatures, water chemistry, and consistent partial water changes are all important if small catfish are going to spawn in an aquarium. But if the young are going to survive, then space becomes even more important. That is not too different from what happens if we try to save all of the fry from any pair of fish. (A pair of guppies produces young which all survive and breed and you become the proud owner of 10s of thousands of guppies in a year!) Suddenly several aquariums are enlisted to help house all of the fry!

And there is so much that aquarists need to learn about how to set up conditions conducive to spawning most fish in aquaria. Most of the 1,300 plus aquarium catfish (a conservative figure) have yet to be spawned. And more new fish are imported and introduced to the hobby every year!

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Re: By the way, Breeding Catfish is a lot differen (none / 0) (#4)
by Jaymi on Wed Dec 20, 2006 at 10:14:14 PM PST

I'm trying to save my baby cories, and most of my fry, as a way to support my other fish. I raise fry of several kinds, bring them into my LFS, and they give me store credit for them, which I use to buy foods, meds, and test kits. Keeping them all just wouldn't work! I will occassionally keep a particularly nice guppy or two (especially the goldens!).

However, I keep a 10 gallon baby fry tank, and a 20 gallon grow out tank. (at the moment, I also have a 1 gallon egg tank)

The fry tank has a sponge filter, which creates a weak current, and won't suck up my fry. Once the fry get big enough to eat newborn fry, they move into the growout tank, until they get to be a decent size, and have their colors, then they go to the petstore.

Right now, I'm raising guppies and platies together, and I still have a few swordtails left in my growout tank. My male swordtail died a while back, and the females seem to have already run out of his sperm. Hopefully, if all goes well, cories will be joining them soon.

Breeding any fish is a bad idea if you don't have the space to put them, or a place such a a pet store, or a friend's house where they can go. If you just want a few cories to help keep your tank bottom clean, you may be better off just buying the ones you want, instead of trying to breed them. Otherwise, you will probably end up with way too many. (or you could get cories like mine, who breed without permission.)

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"you could get cories like mine, who breed (none / 0) (#6)
by unclescott on Thu Dec 21, 2006 at 07:07:59 PM PST

without permission." :)

But that means you are taking very good care of them. :)

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Re: By the way, Breeding Catfish is a lot differen (none / 0) (#5)
by MollieGuppy on Thu Dec 21, 2006 at 03:04:01 AM PST

I realised the space idea, Then ended up with 5 tanks.

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Re: By the way, Breeding Catfish is a lot differen (none / 0) (#7)
by Jaymi on Thu Dec 21, 2006 at 11:05:56 PM PST

You're lucky it is only 5. I have 11 set up, as well as a few tanks in my attic I could pull down in an emergency.

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