I think my Cories just had Eggs

[Impudence12]

We moved the corydoras (5 of them, 2 different species) into the 32 gal tall with the angel fish. I just glanced over there and noticed what I thought was water stains on the front of the glass so I went over to wipe them off, but they are on the inside of the tank and are little white balls with spots in them. I don't think they are angelfish eggs since the angelfish hasn't seen another angelfish in years.

Assuming these are corydoras eggs, what do I do? I'd really like the angelfish not to eat them. She's not really concerned with the eggs atm, but that could change. I'll get some pictures, but all the eggs are are about 60% up the tank in the front left side. There's 1 on the left side of the tank in the same area, and one on the far right side at the same level.

Would it be feaseable to put some sort of dividor in the tank to keep the angelfish on one side with her being about to hurt herself on it? I'll go take some pictures.

[derekp]

Its not the angel Im worried about, its the cories, they are egg eatin machines. My cories bred in my 125. I simply scraped the eggs off the side with a razor blade and put them in my 10 gallon to hatch and grow. I saved all the ones I found and now have about 9 juvie cories. Try and get them quickly and good luck with them.

[Impudence12]

I don't have a spare 10gal, but I do have a spare 5g as well as a small aquaclear in the 32g for emergencies. Girlfriend wants to see them so I'll have to wait a bit to move them tho.

These are the only non-blurry pictures (so hard to take good pictures..)

How long did/do they take to hatch?

[derekp]

I love your windelev fern, and those are definitely cory eggs. Scrape and place them in the 5 gallon with the filter set on low flow and the temperature between 72 and 75 degrees F. You need to place a sponge or panty hose over the filter input so fry dont get sucked in. Also I would put an airstone in the tank as well. Generally it takes about 10 days for the eggs to hatch. Have some brine shrimp or some type of fry food handy. I myself use brine shrimp. I release the brine shrimp a day or so before hatching so the fry can eat as soon as they hatch.

[Neervana]

sorry to be off topic but i really like how you've displayed your gravel! i did the same thing, only i used black sand!

[Impudence12]

The LFS only sells the blue stuff, not sure why, so all our tanks with sand have bright blue in them. Black would be cool, at the very least it would look a bit more natural.

Thank you, I'm kinda proud of that fern, I bought a plant with about 5 leaves on it and have fleshed it out into what you see. I feed guppy fry crushed up flakes. Would crushed (powdered) sinking food suffice?

[BoredAgain]

Just a note, my corys never ate their eggs...so you may just leave them there. Be sure to cover your filter intakes with sponges. I found 3 cory fry in my canister.

[bluekrissyspike]

that doesn't look like many eggs. they will probably lay more or some have been eaten already. unless there are some elsewhere in the tank. that's just my opinion though because i only had 2 cories and they had way more eggs than that when they mated. good luck hatching them and yeah, you tank is looking pretty cool.

[Impudence12]

So far I moved them to the 5gal with the smaller filter. I just took the tube from the water changing thing (so the suction was more) Then filled the 5gal while poking the eggs and they'd get sucked up and end up in the small tank. I've counted 15 in the small tank, and since they are nearly impossible to see them I assume the rest made it. There were none in the tube or on it afterwards so there's very few options.

I've hunted thru the 32gal for any more and I do see a few more, on leaves and what not going fishing after I post this. In retrospect all the cories were going crazy this morning so that's probably when it happened, but I look over at the tank pretty frequently so who knows.

Edit: Ok after getting 3 more, and counting as best I can I've counted 17. So 3 are MIA of the assumed 20 eggs that I've attempted to move. I looked at all the leaves front and back, except the java fern. I'm fairly confindent that those are all the eggs. I just put a breding net thing over the filter intake in lue of having a sponge. (if it keeps them in it should keep them out too :P)

Edit again: As soon as I typed that I see another on the glass, so they aren't done yet.

!! I've seen her doing it! It's a trilineitiasdfsadf one. She just poped 3 more into the java fern.. I'm tempted to take the whole thing out the tank and put it in the breeding one.

[Impudence12]

29 give or take 1 for anyone keeping score. whew.. it is HARD to find them in the java fern, just FYI for anyone planing to breed cories.

I found the mom, she's a trileantus (can't spell it) with a black tipped dorsal fin. There only 2 of those and 3 similar ones, but they aren't julies or triline ones. They have a black spot over there eyes (sooo adorable) Just like panda cories, but they are dotty like a tril.. one. Is it possible she was getting busy with the other species or is the only other exact same species the father?

Make that 30 +/-1

[derekp]

Its possible to cross breed I believe. Mine havent before(that I can tell).

[Impudence12]

I see a fry! Actually 2 so far.

I see 4 eggs that are covered in white fuzz, but those were the white eggs to begin with which I read were dead eggs anyway. Plenty of eggs with dark spots in them, so I think they will all hatch today.

4 days and she laid them between 12-6 so nearly 4 days exactly.

[fishorama]

Congrats! Get those fungused eggs out.

[Impudence12]

Hmm what's the best way of going about that? I'm a bit adverse to using my hand this time.

Oh nvm the tweezers get them out pretty well.

[jm1212]

good luck with them!

remember, if they have spawned once, they'll spawn again.

[Impudence12]

The internet is full of useful information, but every site always leaves out important bits of informations. With that I thank you guys for being here to fill in the gaps.

As for my current 'gap' The fry have hatched they are still alive. They rarely move but they do get out of the way of the little siphon I made out of air stone tubing. When do they eat? I know what to feed them when, but nothing mentions if they just lounge around for 2-3 days after hatching without eating. I know they live off of yolk or something for a vague amount of time, then you need to start feeding them bbs. Today and yesterday I've added a spot of food and the following day it's still there to be sucked out... It's only been 48 hours or so since they hatched (which is as long as I read they used the yolk stuff)

Can someone assure me that everything is supposed to be this way?

Oh and 2 of them never managed to get the egg off their heads. Today one of them was struggling around so I figured I should help and by some miracle poking him with the tweezers got the egg off. Is it a normal thing for them to be stuck in the egg for a few days after hatching. I think there's one more like that, but I haven't seen him.

On an unrelated note, if I'm worrying this much, I worry for future offspring that aren't aquatic..

[pinkertd]

I don't know about their head staying stuck like that but you got it off so that's good. You will see almost no activity while they are absorbing the egg sac. And they will not eat for the first 3 or 4 days while absorbing their sac as nourishment. I kept mind in a gravel bottom 5 gallon for a while and fed them Hikari first bites, but also threw some snails and baby plecos in with them to help consume the leftover powdered food and they did real well. Mine seemed to mostly do a hop-swim kind of thing for the first couple of weeks, staying in the gravel cracks and hiding while they put on a little growth and got stronger. Don't stress too much, things sound like they are going normally. Remember when you do start feeding them, their stomachs are no bigger than their eye, so they will get full fast and be hungry again soon. Tiny feedings, but 4-6 times a day is what worked for me.

[inkyjenn]

i want my cories to breed so badly! i have a trio of emeralds that are "frisky" a lot, but i never see evidence of eggs. course with 9 otos, an 8" pleco (soon to go to his own tank), a cae and 6 congo tetras, i guess i shouldnt be that surprised

[flossyfloofloo]

im looking to breed my corys so this has been a great thread thnx

[Hurley]

Very cool! Can you snap any pictures of them?

[Impudence12]

They are starting to swim away when I go near the tank, then stop like the big cories. I put a bit of sinking orange dry food in there yesterday and noticed some orange tummies since they are still clear. But that goes to show that as soon as they are eating they can eat powdered dry food. I'm still giving them bbs tho.

The lights are still off, so around noon I'll see if I can get some pictures. They still aren't much, just little gray heads and tails.

[OldMan47]

Chances are good that the cories bred with their own kind. They can be induced to cross breed but not usually when there is one of their own kind in the tank.

[Impudence12]

I only managed to get one picture to turn out right despite my best efforts. The flash reset to auto after I looked at the pictures and apparently that caused the one picture to not be blurry, but I don't want to traumatize them with flashing lights so this one will have to do.

This is the 5th day since hatching.

[fishorama]

Congrats!

[BoredAgain]

I remember when mine were that small, so cute. They grow pretty fast.

[Impudence12]

Carp37 inspired me to try to get better pictures (Those baby BN are so adorable)

I took a light off another tank and plopped it on top of the 5g to much the dismay of all the fry. They took shelter in the flower pots, but I managed to get some pictures. This is at 17 days old. Tomorrow we are going to go hunting for pool filter sand and set up a 10gal for them since they won't fit in that tank for long. There's somewhere between 15 and 20 total, but they are hard to count.

The first picture is from a few days ago when I attempted to get a picture with the flash. The rest are from today.

[jpappy789]

CUTE!!! :D:D:D:D