New Bearded Cories

[Mlou]

Hi, I just sold 20 juice sterbai cories to my local fish store and used the credit to buy 5 Barbatus cories. The pics are horrible but these guys are only about 1.5 inches so they’ve got a long way to go until adult. But I love their big snouts and they can live with my goldfish in cooler water. Right now they are living in a 20 L with my green lasers in 77 F water but they seem very happy. I hope to spawn them too!

 

[BigManAquatics]

Make sure to post some pics when they get bigger! I am sure others are like me and never really seen that type of cory!

 

[Marlene327]

I've never seen that kind before, and would also like to see them when bigger. All cories are so much fun - congratulations!

 

[Mlou]

Make sure to post some pics when they get bigger! I am sure others are like me and never really seen that type of cory!

For sure! Thanks

I've never seen that kind before, and would also like to see them when bigger. All cories are so much fun - congratulations!

Yes!

 

[Coradee]

Nice find, do be aware they aren’t as peaceful as the other corys (last I heard though I’m a bit out of touch, the jury’s still out on them being included with corys rather than Scleromystax) once they mature the males can get quite aggressive towards each other & their tankmates

 

[Oriongal]

They're still Scleromystax barbatus as far as I know, too.

What adults look like:


The main way to tell between males and females is the 'stripe' down the male's head. Spawning is the same as corydoras, though the pair I had didn't produce a lot of eggs at any one time. The female had just matured, though.

First spawn, the female took a few tries before getting the hang of it:

I also noticed the male periodically shimmying against the glass, much like a female does when placing eggs; he does it in this clip as well. He did it even before I got the female, it made me wonder if they do some kind of territorial scent-marking or something.

I can confirm that males are territorial and will try to drive off another male. I'd put the level of aggression about the same as male swordtails; don't really do any harm, but the dominant male will stress out a single male if there's only two of them. So probably also like swordtails, I'd guess that if you had 3 or more males the aggression doesn't get so focused on a single individual.

My male was social with the other cory species in the tank, he'd follow the loxozonus corys around. The barbatus I have out in the pool are also all fairly solitary with each other, and a little more social with unrelated cory species.

 

[Mlou]

They're still Scleromystax barbatus as far as I know, too.

What adults look like:
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The main way to tell between males and females is the 'stripe' down the male's head. Spawning is the same as corydoras, though the pair I had didn't produce a lot of eggs at any one time. The female had just matured, though.

First spawn, the female took a few tries before getting the hang of it:

I also noticed the male periodically shimmying against the glass, much like a female does when placing eggs; he does it in this clip as well. He did it even before I got the female, it made me wonder if they do some kind of territorial scent-marking or something.

I can confirm that males are territorial and will try to drive off another male. I'd put the level of aggression about the same as male swordtails; don't really do any harm, but the dominant male will stress out a single male if there's only two of them. So probably also like swordtails, I'd guess that if you had 3 or more males the aggression doesn't get so focused on a single individual.

My male was social with the other cory species in the tank, he'd follow the loxozonus corys around. The barbatus I have out in the pool are also all fairly solitary with each other, and a little more social with unrelated cory species.

Thank you so much for the info. Yes, I know their name is no longer Corydoras but I’m too lazy with the new name starting with the S so just used their old Cory name. I tried to pick out an even number of males to female but I have 7 of them already. I can also get a few more in the next few days as they are not easy to come by. I love their larger adult size color patterns and ability to live in cooler water with my pearlscales goldfish though I think they are perfectly fine at 77 F too.

Nice find, do be aware they aren’t as peaceful as the other corys (last I heard though I’m a bit out of touch, the jury’s still out on them being included with corys rather than Scleromystax) once they mature the males can get quite aggressive towards each other & their tankmates

Yes thank you. I have plenty of goldfish tanks for bad boys to spread to if need be. It sounds like one male can drive the spawning process singlehandedly then with one female…..I’m just used to a bunch of Sterbais rumbling with each other producing tons of eggs.