I think i'm gonna be a cory grandma!

[BettaFishMommy]

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.

[fishorama]

Looks like cory eggs to me. Congrats & good hatching.

[BettaFishMommy]

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!

[BettaFishMommy]

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!

[pinkertd]

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.

[BettaFishMommy]

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?

[FrostyNYC]

I'd suggest you get the endlers out of there ASAP if you intend to hatch those eggs.
Other than that, Id suggest you get some brine shrimp nauppli to start feeding them after they've absorbed their yolk sacks.

[pinkertd]

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?

[BettaFishMommy]

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?

[petluvr]

I have raised many many cory babies and have always used hikari first bites as Debbi suggested.

[BettaFishMommy]

dagnabit! and i had a package of the first bites but gave it to a friend because i didn't think i would be needing it! lol.

ok, shopping list for my lfs trip today:

breeder net (so i can put the eggs in it/raise the fry and solve the problem of not having anywhere to move anybody to)
hikari first bites (i hope the store has this! it's a smaller pet shop with a limited fish section)

one thing i am wondering about is can i do a water change on the tank, which will temporarily expose the eggs to air for about 10 minutes or so, and it won't hurt the eggs at all? this tank is scheduled for a w/c today if i am able to do so without damaging the eggs.

and regarding the Hikari first bites, which i know is a very powdery food, will i just be sprinkling it on top of the water in the breeder net or should i be mixing it with a lil water and target feed the fry in the breeder net?

[inkyjenn]

target feed... cories dont feed off the surface...much. when they get bigger they can (like the odd pleco), but even then, they prefer feeding off the bottom. during water changes, its probably best to move the breeder net to some kind of a bowl with some of the aged tank water so as not to leave them exposed for too long

[BettaFishMommy]

i was going to macgyver the breeder net so that it would go up and down with the changing water level while i do a water change, so no need for me to move it out of the tank.

thanks for the info on target feeding inkyjenn!

[SMinNC]

Congrats on the egg layin'! : )

I haven't looked at one for years. But if a "tank divider" would have small enough holes to prevent the any babies(cory/endlers) from passing through. I'd try tone of them.
I used a breeder net and plastic box thing a long time ago for mollys. I didn't like either one, becuase of the extremely low water circulation with them.

Any and all gunk would stay trapped on the surface. Basically, anything inside, stayed inside.

Think of it like placing an Aqua-clear media bag in the tank, and expecting it to do something for you. ; )

Whatever you do...

Good Luck with'em! :)

[oscartank]

i am currently raising 100 geo braziliensis fry which i started on freshly hatched brine shrimp for a week. Then went onto crushed flake twice a day. They are about 9mm now and im upping there food amount as they are really putting on weight. The young endlers will eat the newly hatched corries definetly. Its what they do, i divided my tank with the previous batch of geos and the swam under and around it into the mouthes of some juvi sevs, very distressing for me and there parents. You could purchase a floating fry net for about a fiver. You could put the endlers in that or vice versa!

[oscartank]

sorry didnt read all thread before posting

[BettaFishMommy]

well alas, it was not meant to be. :(

very few of the eggs turned white (and i took those out), so most of them were good. i had put an airstone in the breeder box on low and it was going so good...... then i came home sunday to find them all white. was only out 4 hours or so. scratched my head and said wth? oh well. you guys saw how many clutches i have on the floating hatchery? lol. i'll just concentrate on my black market shellkid operation instead :D

[fishorama]

Darn! That's too bad but they'll probably lay again

[REDKAHUNA]

well alas, it was not meant to be. :(

very few of the eggs turned white (and i took those out), so most of them were good. i had put an airstone in the breeder box on low and it was going so good...... then i came home sunday to find them all white. was only out 4 hours or so. scratched my head and said wth? oh well. you guys saw how many clutches i have on the floating hatchery? lol. i'll just concentrate on my black market shellkid operation instead :D

Could be 2 females I would purchase 2 or 3 more to get a mix of the sexes. Albino Bronze Green Aeneus cories are the rabbits of the cories to me. My set will lay 400-500 eggs 2 females 4 males in the group. They lay every week non stop year round I stopped pulling eggs or I feed them to my angels. Good luck and keep up the good work.

[BettaFishMommy]

i am certain the albino cories are 1 male, 1 female. and i even saw tiny movement inside a couple of the larger eggs before they all went white, so i know the eggs were viable.

i'm not planning on buying any more fish at this time, as my stocking is about appropriate for the tanks i have up and running (see, i know my limit! lol). perhaps i'll try again in the future.