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Family: Callichthyidae

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Corydoras paleatus

     The Albino Cory are quite hardy and adaptable, very peaceful, and they help keep the bottom of the aquarium clean by eating up leftover foods!

    They are very suited for a small aquarium. The Albino Cory is a small member of the Callichthyidae family of catfish, with a full grown adult only growing up to 2.5 inches (7 cm).

    Though the Albino Cory are not often bred in home aquariums, they will breed rather easily and it is very interesting! The female will drop a few eggs and catch them with her ventral fins, carrying them about to deposit them here and there about the plants and decor in the aquarium.

     The Albino Cory is a pseudo-albino variety that has been developed in the hobby trade from the darker-bodied Paleatus Cory, Corydorus paleatus.

For more Information on keeping this fish see:
Guide to a Happy, Healthy Freshwater Aquarium

Care and feeding:      Since they are omnivores, the Albino Cory will generally eat all kinds of live, fresh, and flake foods. To keep a good balance give them a high quality sinking pellet or flake food everyday. Feed brine shrimp (either live or frozen) or blood worms as a treat.

Distribution:      The Paleatus Cory are found in the La Plata river in southeast Brazil.

Size - Weight:      The Albino Cory get up to 2.5 inches (7 cm).

Social Behaviors:      The Albino Cory are a very good community fish.

Sexual Differences:      Sexing is difficult, and breeding is best accomplished by natural pairing.

Water Region: Top, Middle, Bottom:      These fish will swim in the bottom of the aquarium.

Acceptable Water Conditions:      Hardness: 2-25 ° dGH
     Ph: 6.0 to 8.0
     Temperature: 72-79 ° F (22-26 ° C)

Breeding/Reproduction:      The Corydorus have a very interesting breeding routine. After bumping the male on the vent, the female will receive the males sperm into her mouth. She then discharges a few eggs which she catches and clasps with her ventral fins. Then the female will swim around and deposit a bit of sperm and just a few eggs at a time in select spots, such as a strong plant, the heater tube or ever the aquarium glass. When she has runs out of sperm, she will go back to the male and repeat the process until the spawn is complete. See the description of how to breed these fish in Breeding Freshwater Fish.

Availability:      The Albino Cory is readily available.

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i have albino cory fish and I have had them for years and years in a 55 gallon tank, they grew big. But also in my 55 gallon tank I had almost every fish you can imagine, but for some reason they just all started to die off. I think it was because of the albino frog I bought. So I decided to get a 10 gallon just for my little fish and added some new little bitty albino cory fish and to my suprise today I looked and there is at least 55 eggs on the side of my tank. But I did not know this until I had come home from the pet store and bought a bunch of little tropical fish. I hope these little eggs will survive, hope the tropical fish wont eat them. They are all small, don't know if this matters or not. I have never seen this in my 55 gallon tank, which may be because there was other big fish in there that probably always ate the eggs, especially the frog. So anyways I'm so excited, but then I'm scared. I'm just going to leave them there and let nature decide on what to do. Hopefully it will all work out. I see the little albinos swimming by the eggs on the side of the tank all the time, wonder if this is a good thing. I wonder if I should just take every little fish out of the 10 gallon tank and just leave the eggs by themselves, please a little help. lol amanda salesman 2010-02-04
Hey everyone. How do u tell a male cory from a female? I really want to breed them, cos I think I've got a female. Laura 2010-01-24
I started with 3 corys and now I'm up to 7 adults and they just layed more eggs. So far I am up to 47 babies from this batch and more eggs still. I would recommend these fish to anyone. Andrew 2009-10-29
Hello everyone, I am writing because I am concerned about my catfish. Since I started my 10 gallon tank back in May I have had 3 neon tetras, 3 pristella tetras and 2 albino cory catfish. I have never had any problems up until recently, they are all suppossed to be community fish from the Amazon, right? Well, two days ago I noticed that one of my catfish "Al" was not moving around much and sitting ackwardly on his side. I could tell he was still breathing though and thought that he was just having a more inactive day than usual. I began to think that maybe something had changed in the water, but after testing it I found everything to be normal. On Sunday when I woke up I was really upset to find that he was dead. As I removed him from the tank I examined his body; being albino, I was able to see internal bleeding that had occured close to his tail. I was then shocked to find that his tail had been ripped to shreds. I then examined my other catfish only to find that he was perfectly intact. Today however, I noticed that my remaining cory has been rather still just like "Al" was two days before. I checked his tail and am rather frustrated to find that it has been torn up a little too. I don't understand why, but I know that one or more of my tetras are attacking my catfish. The water is fine, the feeding is the same and I have changed nothing, what can I do? Has anyone ever seen this before? Am I able to place him in a seperate stillwater tank to let his tail recover, and will it recover at all? Whitney 2009-09-21
The reason many of you have Corys that seem unsettled is because they need to be in schools 3 at the minimum. You can have 1 or 2 and they will survive but its not a happy excistance. As they are schooling fish they do not feel secure alone. Please think about getting more, 5 is ideal, you will notice the change in your fishes health and well being. Nymox 2009-09-14
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I have been breeding Albino Corys for several years. The best approach to successful breeding is to have several breeder nets. Also if you are going to attempt breeding Cory or any other spawning fish, you will need to have methylene blue. It is to prevent fungus on the eggs. You will also need some first bite food. They are much easier to work with. After you have set up a breeder net. Do not put it in the tank until there are eggs. If you get up early enough to watch the spawning going on. This usually happens in the early AM. Wait for at least fifteen minutes after the eggs have been deposited and then use a one sided razor blade, I use a device called a Widget. Most hardware stores carry them. Very carefully remove the eggs from the glass. They will be sticky at this time. Put the breeder net in and very very very very carefully use your fingertips and roll the eggs off the Widget into the breeder net. It will take 3 to 5 days for the fry to hatch. You may need a magnifiying glass to see them. They will live on their yolksac for the first 2 days. You will need to feed them first bites until they are at least 2 weeks old. Good luck. Debi Green 2009-12-04
Here's a trick. If you have plants in your tank, they may desposit the eggs on the plants. If so, break off the leaves of the plants and put them in a floating auxiliary tank (plastic, not the netted kind otherwise the babies will get trapped). The "more brown" eggs will disappear and the white ones will remain. That is because they hatched (the white ones are unfertilized and can be discarded). They will be protected in the auxiliary tank, and you can feed them with Tetra-min baby flakes. Mine literally had 200 babies. As they get older (they are about a week old), I'm losing 10-12 per day. I'm trying to figure if I am feeding them too much or too little. It's a great study in Darwinism (survival of the fittest) as you can see phyical deformities (curved spines, inflated abdomens) and mental sickness (CRAZY fish). They all have different personalities. Fascinating!! Cliff Jordan 2009-12-04
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I'm currently still cycling my new 10 gallon aquarium with guppies, but doing lots of research on the best fish to plan on adding over time. I considered cory's the other day when I saw them at the pet store, but all the comments here are very helpful and they sound like great fish!! thanks everyone Jenna 2009-09-27
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