Metae

[fischfan13]

A picture of my favorite Cory...
< I hear thru the grapevine that someone is getting some in!!!>

http://www.jjphoto.dk/fish_archive/aquarium/corydoras_metae_x.jpg

[AlishanAS]

How many do you want Bill?

[fischfan13]

When are they coming in?

[AlishanAS]

Soon.

[fischfan13]

Getting a 20g long ready the Metae.
This will be my first attempt to breed Cories.

[AlishanAS]

Bill - you have one of the best resources in the world for obtaining info on Cory breeding right here on our site - Frank Falcone, AKA Coryologist.

[fischfan13]

Picked up a few last week at Mark's...definitely need more.
These little buggers are really neat.

[mack74]

I love them as well, I started with a group of 3 about 13 years ago and havent purchased 1 since, I counted the other day what I could see and came up with 13. I never knew they were breeding till a saw a little one about 2 years ago.

[chris1932]

White sand as fine as you can get, paint or cover three sides of the tank, java moss, java moss, java moss, feed bbs every day for a week, one day no food, next day 80% water change. Works for Pandas and Adolfoi.

[fischfan13]

Great advice, but I need more Metae!

[YoungAquaticPhotos]

Get over it Bill! You will just kill them anyway!

[Bev N]

You can use de-capped brine shrimp also. They love blackworms if you can get them.

The only thing I do is water changes weekly. With some of the more challanging species I'm going to half r/o and see if that makes a difference. Of course I only have sterbia and hastatus spawning so far. Frank says patience and I'm working on that. :erm:

Easy way to hatch the eggs once you get them. Put one of those livebearer nets into the tank. Add a few alder cones. When they spawn put the eggs into the net. This way no fooling with the eggs and water changes. I get virtually 100% hatch rate doing this which is why I have at least 300 sterbai young now. I only have a trio...one lone female who lays a whole lot of eggs!

The hastatus I don't do anything with...just java moss and floating plants and water changes. Babies are starting to show up and join the shoal. I hope I get as lucky with the green lasers, orange lasers, duplicarius, adolphi and black schwartzi.

Good luck...the cories have always been one of my favorites.

[fischfan13]

Thanks for the encouragement Ed.
Have you learned to tie a bottle of dechlor around your wrist when you do water changes so that you do not forget?

Bev, I definitely need more Metae. They are really neat looking Cories (My favorite) and I think that they will settle in really nicely into a 30g.