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.
Thanks for watching! Feel free to leave questions in the comments if you have them, and If you enjoyed this video, consider subscribing to see future projects. For more info on the fry tray shown in this video, see the "about" section of this CZcams channel.
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!
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.
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 💗👍✌️💯
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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?
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.
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...
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
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 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? :)
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
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.
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?
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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)
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
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
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.
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!
Thank you. I certainly try to approach it that way and I hope by limiting variables I can get closer to a reliable and repeatable process.
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.
Really liked the video, especially as you stick to the important information and don't engage in a bunch of unnecessary fluff like many people do.
Thanks for watching! Feel free to leave questions in the comments if you have them, and If you enjoyed this video, consider subscribing to see future projects. For more info on the fry tray shown in this video, see the "about" section of this CZcams channel.
Can you please point us in to the direction of how to make those breeder boxes?
Great video and information 😊 I'm hoping to get my Skunk Corydoras to spawn
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!
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.
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 💗👍✌️💯
Aeneus right? That's what I was thinking too.
I like your narrative. Clear, precise and interesting, with some nuances of humour. Subbed.
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.
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.
Pygmies are on the to do list for sure!
@@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.
All the details makes how you educate perfect! Thank you
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!
I love these videos. You break it down in such a straight forward way.
Congrats on the big spawn! A wonderful video and tutorial.
Wonderful video. I learned interesting stuff! Thank you. 😊
The price is high because of greed, plane, and simple. Excellent video, as always, very informative and educational.
Thank you Sir for sharing.
Love your breeding tutorials and knowledge/ experiences shared in hobby.👏👏👏👏
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.
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!
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
seeing that shot at the end of the juvenile corys is so cool. such a great video!
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.
That's my understanding too. It really does seem odd.
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.
I think there are some albino gold lasers that look pretty cool. I'm not sure of their origin
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.
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 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
WAW...IM SURPRISED TO LEARN HOW MUCH IT SIMS TO BE EASY TO BREED THEM :)
THANK YOU FOR SHARING :)
THANK YOU FROM ISRAEL :)
Ok im binging now, this is ridiculous that you dont have 1m subs
We'll get there in 15-20 years. It's right around the corner. Until then it's a small but enthusiastic group.
Beautiful video, as usual. ❤
A lot of useful informations and a great footage.
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.
Awesome video thanks for the information I think mine are just too little right now but I am gut loading them for the time being
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?
Xtreme nano. It's a 0.5mm pellet and my favorite dry food.
@@MakeMoreFish oh great, I’ve used that before!
Amazing video as always! “Jaws” got me wheezing 😂
Amazing once again. Can't wait for your next video, really good job!
Ohhh yes
Your videos always make my day!!
also have you ever thought about trying some of the mouth brooding bettas like unimacs?
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.
Can’t wait for the Elizibithae
This is the BEST video ever!
Love the video! Did you make the fry box? I’d be interested in getting some.
Daphnia def helps
Great video! I subbed
Great video as always!!! Have you considered breeding any pseudomugil rainbows or panda garra?
Pseudomugils yes. I have a group of luminatus starting to spawn now. Beautiful little fish.
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...
Awesome
"Bomber Bay of eggs." Perfect description. LOL.
I love your videos the pictures are so good and you bring the fry so close i havent seen videos like this. What kind of kamera are you useing?
A canon M50 most of the time
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
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 don't sell the boxes themselves but the print files to produce them.
this is such a great video, subbed
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? :)
Sponge filters primarily but the water circulation is from a powerhead
Never seen a breeder box like that, where did u get it?
In previous video, he explained that he made it himself I believe. 3D printing or something.
Love your video. By the way, what was the volume of this tank?
10 gallons where they spawned, then 20 at the end. 40 breeder later on.
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
amazing video. Do you store your baby brine in salt water? and feed brines with salt water directly to the fry?
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.
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?
Can different varieties of coridoras be hybridized?
I'm jealous of your breeding success. But I'm even more jealous that you can get freeze-dried tubifex worms to sink.
FACTS
u gotta mash them up a bit underwater and squeeze all the air out ;)
@@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.
another great video
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.
where do I get that breeding box ( the grey thing were you put the eggs in)?
It's 3D printed. There should be a link to more info in the pinned comment.
무정란 유정란을 같이 둬도 곰팡이가 번지지 않나 보네요
Where did you get the plastic insert to put inside your hose while doing water change?
It's actually an aquatic plant basket. The most common size which I think is 2"
@@MakeMoreFish thanks!
I don't understand your comment about where you place the spawning mop can you show me what you meant please
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.
I feed freeze-dried blackworms, but the don't sink. The freeze-dried worms you showed were at the bottom. Do freeze-dried tubifex worms sink easily?
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.
What is the name of the fry tray? And where did you find it?
Doesn't really have a name yet but I make and sell them. There's info in the channel about section
Where did you get that breeding box???
I make them. They are 3D printed.
What is the gray box you have them in when fry?
It's 3D printed. There should be a link to more info in the pinned comment
Where can i buy the breeding box you use?
It's 3D printed rather than bought. There should be a link in the pinned comment to a video with more information on it.
can female cory lay egg without male ?
I've never seen them do that
can these eggs hatch by just airstone and water flow alone or i still need dark water or methylen blue ?@@MakeMoreFish
What size tank were you keeping and breeding these in?
10 gallon, technically. It happens to circulate water through a second tank to increase water volume.
@@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)
Hello. Do you have other fish with them? They do not est eggs? Regards
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
Hi, since these are an aneus strain, do you think they would be able to make some kind of fun mix with albinos?
I have albino gold lasers. Very yellow fish lol
That's a good question, I'm not sure.
Question is will you sell them for cheaper because you can breed so much?
Almost certainly
What type of breeder box is that man? I really need one like that
Any link to the breeder boxes
There should be a link in the pinned comment
hi may i know what kind of pellets do you feed them?
Xtreme nano pellets
@@MakeMoreFish thanks!
Hey, what camera and mic do you use?
A Canon M50 and a Shure MV7X
how old do they gotta be to breed
Probably 10-12 months old
I got 90 fry! Is that above average?
Hard to say what average is. Sounds like a great number to me.
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
istg bro the only reason fish dont breed in tanks is bc no one wants to have their hokus pokus filmed
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.
Can’t wait for the Elizibithae