Corydoras is one freshwater fish species are in great demand and ornamental fish lovers have export opportunities. Besides being used as a freshwater fish, can also be utilized as raw material for cosmetics in the developed world.
Although these fish originated from South America, but has long been successfully cultivated in Indonesia. This fish is known for easy cultivation. Short and stout body shape, more arched back than the abdomen, both sides are equipped with fish such as bone plates are arranged in two rows, having two pairs of whiskers located in the upper jaw and lower jaw and body size can reach 12 cm.
Corydoras fish can be cultured in ponds that contain low oxygen in the water. Suitable environmental conditions for these fish species were: pH 6-8, temperature of 21.5-28 o C.
In the fish Corydoras necessary maintenance tools and equipment in the form of materials, namely:
- Parent fish Corydoras female and male
- The container maintenance include:
- Bak maintenance of the male and female mass, as well as a place of spawning, or aquarium that measures 60 × 40 × 40 cm.
- Bak larval rearing and seed mass
- Feed the parent form or Chironomous tubifex worms and mosquito larvae.
- Feeding the larvae of Artemia nauplii
- Food for Corydoras fish rearing up ready for the market is tubifex worms