View Full Version : Surviving Cory Fry
ggrowney
04-19-2006, 9:39 PM
I had cory eggs hatch 2 days ago. I thought they had been eaten, but tonight I noticed about 3 fry dodging in the gravel. What should I do about food?
try making a fine powder of your flake food, or baby brine shrimp
make fry food by hard boiling an egg, removing the white part (use only the yellow part) take the yolk and put it in a bag, add a little bit of water to make a paste, add a TINY amount of this to your tank, and it will make a cloud that the fry like, them being cories, they might be able to eat the flakes...
be careful if you use the egg, this stuff is potent and will foul up the tank if you use too much, or don't do enough water changes!
You can feed them daphnia. It works for me.
snakeskinner
04-20-2006, 12:29 PM
do not feed them at all until the yolk sack is gone. they will not eat until that and any food you give them will foul the water. baby brine shrimp is good, you can buy many fry foods as long as they sink. microworms are also a good food for cory fry. KYle
For mine I also just dropped piece of shrimp pellets or algae waffer int he areas they hid in. They ate fine as the pelletes dissolved. Eventually they just came out and ate with the big guys.
Another good option is if you have thick java moss in your main tank, it should have stuff living on it so your fish will also eat that.