T-time at the cory zoo.

Well...Finally...got some serious egglaying goin' on.

I've recently started feeding tubifex cubes again...about 2 weeks ago...they used to ignore 'em but now they just swarm over 'em. Also have been feeding frozen bloodworms, brine shrimp, etc from the SF Bay assortment pack. Got some live blackworms Tuesday and have been feeding them too.

Last night I added 3 C.paleatus to the 40G tank with 11 aeneus and 1 lone paleatus. This morning the pre-spawn chasing was going on; not just the bronze that's spawned before, but also the albinos AND the paleatus I just added. Several of the aeneus have spawned, so far I've only been able to save ~12 eggs. The paleatus look like they could go any minute...one of my new ones is fatter than Santa

Hard to save the eggs with 20 platys and 14 corys trying to eat them!
Eggs are in a net breeder in my 10G platy tank at 79-80F; it gets a small amount of circulation from the HOB filter. I added anti-fungal to the water and will gradually change the water out over the next week. I have live baby brine shrimp, decap BS eggs and first bites for them.

So why today? dumb luck? Last WC was 2 weeks ago...was planning to do one this weekend. Barometric pressure went from 30.3 to 30.1" yesterday and is on it's way up, not much of a drop, but who knows?

I guess they were just 'ready' to do it! No sense in overthinking it.

Will let ya know how it goes...Don

Thanks for the comments...

today's count is 10 viable tan eggs. removed one white one; another white one is in the middle of a string of 5 so I'm reluctant to fool with it. Very easy to see the difference against the white net breeder. temp at 78-79F, slight current thru the net breeder.

trying to time the brine shrimp just right probably start it Tuesday

Well, it appears i'm down to 2! The string of 5 with one bad egg appeared all bad ("one bad egg spoils the whole bunch", eh?) and I can only see 2 eggs left.

Methinks the MTS were in there munching last night. Wouldnt surprise me one bit.

I went from 2 eggs to 1 egg to 1 fry. No idea what happened other than maybe the snails got in there? fry hiding under the frame of the net breeder, not sure it's eating. Target fed it with brine shrimp in a tube and ended up disturbing the poor thing...at least I know he's alive.

Still an exponentially better experience than I had last time....and I'm sure there'll be a next time!

Tuesday apparently; that when I no longer saw the remaining egg; fry must have been hiding under the net breeder frame. I thought hatching was 4-5 days, not 3 tho!

now to get it to eat...