I think I killed my panda cory babies :(

[saphphx]

So I had 6 baby pandas hatch a few days ago, I went into hospital for a few days and had my husband look after them, two died and I got home and checked them, fed them, they all seemed ok, and went off to do something else, when I got back 6 hours later the air line had fallen out and all my babies were dead! I am wondering if they died earlier because they were due a water change today but I hadn't gotten to it til later.

Is this my fault or does it just happen? I have tons of albino cory fry and I know quite a few don't make it just after hatching for various reasons, and as only 6 hatched it does cut down on the odds.. I guess I am feeling guilty and want to know if the air falling out could have killed them? it was only a few hours and it was on so high the O2 content should have been enough to keep them going, I just don't know what to do, I am crushed because there were so few eggs and even less of them hatched this time around, and I do so well with the albinos, but the pandas have always caused me trouble. I finally got a batched that lived long enough to grow up and breed, now this happens! I don't know what to do :'(


thanks all.

[Mgamer20o0]

was there a filter on the tank? shouldnt have died so fast if it was o2. adults swim up to the top of the water... not sure if the fry do that also.

[saphphx]

no filter, but I do water changes every other day with water from a filtered fry tank, they were due to move to a real tank tomorrow, I am dead depressed.

[Mgamer20o0]

hard to tell. you could at lest test the water to make sure. could be stress. maybe it was the o2 levels.

[saphphx]

I'm wondering if they didn't get a water change when they should have while I was in hospital. Not to push the blame off me, but I guess it could have been anything. Maybe I didn't give them enough microworms, or gave them to many, or it was the o2, or to much or to little water. I had sucked a dead one out earlier, so maybe they stressed out.

I donno. I would go with stress or o2, but there was enough room for them to get to the surface.

[Mgamer20o0]

it sucks but hope your better and if they spawned once they should spawn again.

[saphphx]

I feel a bit better, thanks :)

Yeah, tomorrow is water change day, and it was after the last water change that they spawned, so I have my fingers crossed!

[Mgamer20o0]

good luck. i have a few fish i have tracked back to spawning with the temp change of the water change.

[saphphx]

I've done the water change but so far no spawning, I think they are mad at me lol

[Mgamer20o0]

give it some time. not sure on the spawning cycle on them.

[boomerjr91]

yea you should have another spawning again since they've done it before.

[Carp37]

Tough luck on this- I believe pandas are a little more delicate than other cories, and other spawning records say they are MUCH less prolific than other cories. Good luck on future attempts- I'd never bred any cories until my Brochis laid eggs in their quarantine tank so I'm slowly learning to raise fry!