Success with Cory breeding

摘要

Ian Fuller has some advice for those of you who want to try your hand at breeding corydoras. Among the many groups of fish that I have bred over the years it's the group of small armoured catfishes from South America belonging to the family Corydoradinae that have intrigued me the most. In fact my interest in them started within the first three years of taking up the hobby, it's an interest that has continued to this day. There are nearly 150 described species, with almost as many more species awaiting scientific description. At any one time there are probably 20-25 species available to the hobbyist, these range in size from a little over tin (25mm) body length, to 4in (loomrn). Their body shapes also vary, which is an indication that although theybelong to the same family, they do not necessarily live in the same type of habitats. This means that providing the correct breeding conditions for them is not always a simple task.