corywink's 3ft Corydoras tanks

[corywink]

Share some pics of my corydoras tank try to keep atleast 10 of each type, so my tank is overcrowded


young male barbatus, just starting to show it's male patterns and cheek bristles

Fat male bronze

big fat female schwartzi

young duplicareus

male elegans

Female panda and sterbai

young weitzmani. Luckily for me there is a nice local breeder that gave me a really good price. Supposedly they are easy to breed. The males are already acting horny


pymaeus group

female pygmaeus, they are fatter and about double the size of the males

male pygmaeus

[iwishweallcouldwin]

Very nice tank! Love your weitzmanis. All corycats are looking healthy and happy too!

[ZANE]

Hi Corywink,

That's a nice collection of corys you have. I also like the way you've set up your tank - has a very green jungle feel yet clean and simple look to it. Just curious, but how often do you vacuum your tank? Great job on the tank!

Z.

[corywink]

thanks
the plants I've used are java ferns, anubias and moss, these are all attached to wood and coconut shells, nothing rooted into the gravel, so I can just take them out of the tank during weekly water changes. I hover my syphon over the fine gravel and suck most of the debris out, then I use my fingers and mix the gravel so there are no dead pockets. I do one side each week to make it easier.

[sfk7]

I like the scape as well! Nice collection of cories too!

What is your feeding regime for them to be so fat and round? haha

[corywink]

their staple food is NLS thera (garlic) pellets, which I feed every other day. In between I feed earthworm flakes, brine shrimp flakes, regular flakes, and tetra colour bits. On occasion a hikari algae wafer.

[CK Yeo]

Lovely cory tank! Any plans to spawn them soon?

ck

[ZANE]

Hi again Corywink,

Care to share your tank specs with us?

Just curious on 1) lighting 2) Filtration 3) size/ volume of tank. 4) Any CO2 or ferts? Be nice to know.

Btw what part of Canada are you from? I'm recently transplanted from Ontario myself . By my guess you're somewhere out west - BC probably? Just curious as I can see some stuff not so readily available back home in your tank. I do recognize the generic BIG AL's thermometer though LOL. Fissidens moss (unless I miss Id'd) would cost an arm and a leg in the T dot.

Z.

(edit) Ya- I miss Id'd. Not fissidens but some not so common moss in that pic with your male pygmy cory.

thanks
the plants I've used are java ferns, anubias and moss, these are all attached to wood and coconut shells, nothing rooted into the gravel, so I can just take them out of the tank during weekly water changes. I hover my syphon over the fine gravel and suck most of the debris out, then I use my fingers and mix the gravel so there are no dead pockets. I do one side each week to make it easier.

[corywink]

Lovely cory tank! Any plans to spawn them soon?

ck

thanks
yes I've spawned and raised the fry of bronze, sterbai, panda and metae. I will share some pics later.

the pygmys and duplicareus have spawned, but the fry die on me

[luenny]

Hi Corywink,
Nice to finally see your tank. Love the pictures, especially the one with the group of weitzmanis. Keep us posted.

[corywink]

It's taiwan moss, and I'm in Toronto, and yes fissidens is rediculously expensive. can't afford

tank is 36"x14"x18" so around 30 gals
lighting is 2xT5 (one 21W 6700K and one pink 21W) it's the coralife T5 freshwater aqualight so you might know it.
No C02 injection but I add 2ml of flourish each week, more often if I see algae starting to take over. The plants are very low maintenance. and the filtration is one eheim 2224 canister

Hi again Corywink,

Care to share your tank specs with us?

Just curious on 1) lighting 2) Filtration 3) size/ volume of tank. 4) Any CO2 or ferts? Be nice to know.

Btw what part of Canada are you from? I'm recently transplanted from Ontario myself . By my guess you're somewhere out west - BC probably? Just curious as I can see some stuff not so readily available back home in your tank. I do recognize the generic BIG AL's thermometer though LOL. Fissidens moss (unless I miss Id'd) would cost an arm and a leg in the T dot.

Z.

(edit) Ya- I miss Id'd. Not fissidens but some not so common moss in that pic with your male pygmy cory.

[corywink]

Here are some fry pics that I would like to share. This year they started to breed right when Spring hit (april-may), unfortunately I don't have the tank space to raise too many, I collect some eggs and place it into my DIY breeding box (top left corner of my tank) and fill it with moss and let them eat the microscopic organisms, this has worked ok, a few survive and get to a size that I can start feeding powered pellets/flakes. Just trying to keep the raising process as simple as possible so no bbs hatching

Here's an egg that is about to hatch, you can make out the fry inside it's shell.


Dont' remember what age the rest of the pics are, but here it has finished its yolk sac and big enough to take powdered foods:


Here it is starting to look like a cory, but at this stage, most look the same so I can't tell which is a metae and which are sterbai


metae starting to show its pattern:

cute little guy


Sterbai showing it's pattern


bigger, but sterbai takes longer to show their adult patterns:


and this little one is a few months old, it survived inside the main tank, didn't need to raise it

[bossteck]

All your corys look very well-fed!

[freshfish]

hey cory wink i love your setup ! very nice job

All your corys look very well-fed!

overfed ?

just kidding