Best Cory Setup For Breeding?

[cjerrom]

So I am looking at setting up a Cory tank but for multiple species.

Is a 90g divided into 4 compartments, with each having a spray bar across the top and Porte foam filter on the drain a good setup with an FX5/6 and an inline Heater a good way to go? The risks are that all four tanks are hooked up to one central filter and diseases could become common. Spawning mops? What's the best material and what's the best conditioning food? I have access to live, frozen and freeze dried. Beef heart a good supplement as I have discus as well.

I am liking at the following cories to start:

Duplicareus, Adolfi, similis, sterbia, weitzmani in tank 1 and tank 2 green lasers, reynoldsi, schwartzi, and CW51 - 10 of each in each compartment.

Please post all your thoughts as I am in the design process and have mainly adults with the duplicareus being the only juvies.

Can I also keep Apistos in the same tanks? Or should I put it as has anyone ever had success in breeding apistos along side cories in the same tanks? (Cacautoides, viejeta, agassizi, blue German rams)

I have soft water (Kinetico system with RO if needed) with a pH of 7.8 (Calgary) and I can take that down lower if needed. Most of my cories at home are at 82F and 6.5 with discus. Not ideal for some but they sure like the beef heart and bloodworm diets!

[vince0]

if you already fattened them up, do a cold water change with ro water, and add lots of extra flow when you do it. if you can time it with a rain/snow fall, the barometric pressure will help "trick" them into spawning. Cory's spawn anywhere, its growing the fry out that's a pain. If you want to come see my Sterbai set up you can, I have a few (dozen) fry growing out as well as some mystery cory fry that spawned in one of my rainbow mops.

let me know

thanks

vince

[cjerrom]

I would definitely take you up on that as I always like seeing somebody else's expertize.

Let me know what times you have availavle and I will bring you a Starbucks for the privelege.