I think i'm gonna be a cory grandma!

BettaFishMommy

BettaFishMommy

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Mar 17, 2008
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picked up two albino cories this past wednesday (july 1st), named them Humpty and Dumpty, lol, and well....... i think they humptied and dumptied me some cory eggs!!

look! and if they aren't cory eggs, what the heck are they? only other inhabitants in the tank are endlers and baby briggs.

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and i didn't even do anything to make them breed! lol. all i was doing was qt-ing them for a month until they get put into the 55 planted.

can somebody say fish luck? hahahaha!
 
i havn't hit up google yet for info on cory breeding success, but can anyone give me tips, hints, etc on getting the eggs to hatch and raising the fry?

thanks!
 
Are the two cories the only ones in the tank? Do the eggs look kinda clear or are they turning opaque white?

Sometimes it just takes a change to different water to induce spawning. Obviously she was full of eggs! Do you see a size difference between the two cories? Females are bigger and broader kinda like a little tug boat.
 
yep, it's only the two. and yes, one is definitely female and one is male. most of the egss are a tan colour and a few are white in places. i know the white ones are most likely not fertile. there was no water change, i guess they just really like the qt tank, lol.

anyone have tips on how to successfully hatch the eggs and raise the fry?
 
The water change was when you put them into your tank new on Wednesday. It was a change of water from where they came from. And I missed that endlers are in there and either get the eggs out into a small tank or get the endlers out. I really can't say for sure if the parent cories will or won't eat fry. Some cories do and some don't. I would not trust them though. Egg removal is pretty easy for the albino's, the eggs get pretty hard compared to some other cory species, making them easy to remove with something like a credit card edge. I remove my eggs by hand, carefully...thank goodness for long fingernails, they come in handy for this! And Hikari first bites and microworms are also easy and excellent first foods. I raise mine on this. They will hatch in 3-4 days depending on the tank temp and won't need to eat for another 3 days or so while they absorb their egg sac. Do you have another small tank you could set up for the eggs/fry?
 
i have no other suitable tank to move the endler fry, which are very tiny still, and are showing no interest in the eggs. as it is, this tank is on the end of my kitchen counter because i had nowhere else to put it, and no room for any more tanks in my lil postage stamp size 1 bedroom apartment, lol, so nowhere to move any fish to. the cory parents can't be moved out either because i just picked them up on wednesday and this is my qt tank.

i was going to try egg yolk mixed with water for the first day or so after they use up their yolk sac, then move on to crushed up shrimp pellets and algae wafers. i have a syringe to feed them with. does anyone have advice on how often to feed and what consistency the egg yolk mix should be? and will i have to make a new egg mixture every time or can i store it in the fridge?
 
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