Cory fry

[Aderynglas]

Two weeks ago my cories spawned in the show tank :D I put a leaf with some of the eggs into a small tank I was setting up and lo and behold I have about 30 cory babies about 10 days old and almost 1/2 inch long. I can't believe so many have survived this long, gold fish fry were devilishly difficult to raise but these fellers are thriving in this little planted tank. They'll have to move to a bigger place soon :D

Hope the LFS's will be interested or I'm in big trouble, my friends will only have room for a few.:eek:

[gregg604]

Congrats on your new babies!

[Sensei_the_dojo]

Originally posted by Aderynglas
[B
Hope the LFS's will be interested or I'm in big trouble, my friends will only have room for a few.:eek: [/B]

Maybe you could place a "Free to good home" advertisement. ;)

BTW. Congratulations!:D

[stik6shift98]

congrats....how were u succesfull in doing so....i have had my cories for over a year now and still no sign of spawning:(

[Dwarfnut]

Congrats!

Did you feed the fry anything or just let them fend for themselves in the planted tank??

Mine have spawned three times now, but the fry always die once hatched and I think they are just starving to death. I've tried many different fry foods to no avail.

Thanks,
Bill C.

[yhbae]

What did you try to feed?

[pharoh08]

the only corys ive got to breed were my pandas, but i normally just feed them whant you would any small fish fry, stuff like poweder egg yolk and other common fry foods , tried baby formula once too, but im not sure if its a good food



congrats with your new freinds

[Aderynglas]

awwww thanks for those replies :D.

The tank was set up as a nano tank originally with surplus plants from my larger tanks and was well matured. I put the leaf in and left the eggs to hatch. They only took a couple of days so they must have been in the main tank for a while.

The babies did not feed for a few days, but hid in the plants and at the bottom in the sand and mulm absorbing their yolk sacs. After the babies were free swimming for three days I put a tiny shake of Tetra fry food on the surface of the tank, once a day at first. This along with the infusoria already present in the tank seemed to be enough. As the babies got bigger I fed the fry food twice a day, then as this disappeared faster three times a day. Now they are demolishing plecostomus tablets (1/4 twice daily) and finely crushed flake.

I've since had to set up a larger tank as the original started to get polluted, especially the sand bottom. Some fish died :(
Every day I take out a few litres of water and replace it with new conditioned water.
The babies are still just over 1/2' but are much more robust looking and definately C. Aeneas (I did think they were C. Paleatus) 8 of them reside with my female ram (she's broody) who watches over them as if they were her own, and a further 12 reside in a tank with my male ram (female bullied him cos he's usless at looking after eggs):rolleyes:

From the original 40+ babies I now have about 25 and expect to lose a few more along the way but there will still be plenty to share about.

stik6shif98 - I didn't really do anything, they get plenty of food (bloodworm and cory pellets, flake) and there is only one female to two males (Aeneas and Paleatus - six in all) They spawned after a coolish water change (took longer than I thought cleaning the tank out) and they spawned again 2 weeks later. The Paleatus corys haven't spawned at all and I've had them longer :confused:

One thing is very important - the water surface must be very clean and the air above it warm and moist, this helps the fry enormously as they come to the surface regularly to take in air.

[thecareys]

too bad i dont have my 55 setup yet or i would take 5-8 off your hands

[LMOUTHBASS]

i'll take some!!! how much?