View Full Version : I have fry! But cory or molly? (PICTURES)
iansmith
03-18-2006, 9:54 PM
I noticed something small move when looking in my aquarium today, and realised it was a fry!
I found four of them, netted them into a breeder for safe keeping and now want to know just what they are? They look to me like cory fry... but I wanted a second, and third opinion. I never saw any eggs.
I have some Corydoras Aeneus and some assorted mollies. Below are the fries.. frys.. fryes? (Click for larger versions)
http://www.ian.org/Photos/Aquarium/Thumbs/Fry1.jpg (http://www.ian.org/Photos/Aquarium/Fry1.jpg) http://www.ian.org/Photos/Aquarium/Thumbs/Fry2.jpg (http://www.ian.org/Photos/Aquarium/Fry2.jpg) http://www.ian.org/Photos/Aquarium/Thumbs/Fry3.jpg (http://www.ian.org/Photos/Aquarium/Fry3.jpg) http://www.ian.org/Photos/Aquarium/Thumbs/Fry4.jpg (http://www.ian.org/Photos/Aquarium/Fry4.jpg)
So what are they.. and what do I do? Thanks!
TipStylez
03-18-2006, 10:26 PM
looks more like a cory, but they really look like aliens.
Z Man
03-18-2006, 10:29 PM
Don't look like any cory fry I have ever seen. Has to be Molly fry. Cory fry do not swim around a whole lot but the Molly fry would swim all over the tank. The plural of FRY is still FRY. As in "I have 100 fry in my tank."
Dragon Queen
03-18-2006, 10:35 PM
They are molly fry, look just like mine from a birthing 2 weeks ago that was so cool to watch. :bday:
Dangerdoll
03-18-2006, 10:47 PM
I would say molly too.... the back end is too long and thin for cory fry
Cory fry are flatter and wider, so I agree, they must be mollies. There are also no barbels on these.
I have had cory fry. They surprisingly look liek perfect replicas of tiny cories. And those don't look a thing like them. So mollies it is. Plus cories are egg layers and they lay massive amounts of eggs. You couldn't have missed it.
Gumby131
03-19-2006, 12:00 AM
mollies
04cobratorchred
03-19-2006, 1:15 AM
mollies thats just what mine look like.
iansmith
03-19-2006, 9:36 AM
Thanks for all the help!
An update.. they are doing well, swimming around and eating bits of really finely ground flake as I read to feed them elsewhere.
I didn't have a fry nursery, so I put them into a bowl partially submerged at the top of the tank with a filtered siphon, then ran some air tubing with a throttle from my powerhead to the bowl to get a flow of water into it from the main tank, a steady but small flow. Works well, if a bit ungainly.
So... where is a good place to post notices for free fish? :-)
Pufferpoison
03-19-2006, 9:55 AM
i've had good luck feeding my molly fry a mixture of hikari fd brine shrimp, bloodworms and tetra flakes. I just add equal parts of all three into a ziplock bag and crunch it up into a fine powder. My fry are really growing good.
Roan Art
03-19-2006, 10:22 AM
TKOS,
Do you have any pictures of cory fry? I've never seen any and I bet they are SO cute!
Roan
Pran, go away. It is obvuious you are trolling.
Raon, sorry my camera was down at teh time and I never got them. Needless to say they look liek perfect copies of the adults, even little whiskers. By the time they came out to let me see them they were maybe 0.5 cm in length. When they got bold enough they would crowd around the algae disks with the adults and that was absolutely the cutest thing ever.
Roan Art
03-19-2006, 10:48 AM
Pran, go away. It is obvuious you are trolling.
Raon, sorry my camera was down at teh time and I never got them. Needless to say they look liek perfect copies of the adults, even little whiskers. By the time they came out to let me see them they were maybe 0.5 cm in length. When they got bold enough they would crowd around the algae disks with the adults and that was absolutely the cutest thing ever.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww! I wanna see!
Anyone else have pictures of cory fry?
Roan
mykidsmylife
03-19-2006, 11:04 AM
Pran, go away. It is obvuious you are trolling.
Raon, sorry my camera was down at teh time and I never got them. Needless to say they look liek perfect copies of the adults, even little whiskers. By the time they came out to let me see them they were maybe 0.5 cm in length. When they got bold enough they would crowd around the algae disks with the adults and that was absolutely the cutest thing ever.
Awww man!!! Sound Adorable! I LOVE corys. I'm hoping the albino's in our 40 gallon will spawn someday.
I'm with Roan...does anyone have pics of Cory fry? I would love to see it.
There are pictures of my panda fry in the link in my sig. (click on 2.5 gallon).
Sorry about the quality but they are just starting to darken up and are mostly clear.