View Full Version : Holy cow, I gots a baby!
Walker Anderson
06-30-2006, 8:19 AM
Imagine my suprise this morning when I was feeding the fish before heading off to work, when I noticed something very small wiggling around in the dwarf grass. I sat and waited for it to move again. Sure enough, though hard to see in the grass was a wee cory. I have 4 adults in the tank. 2 are fully grown and rather larger (3-4 inches) and 2 smaller ones (2 inches or so). The tank is fully planted and has plenty of hiding places, so I never noticed anything. But I will have to look around closer this evening.
The little critter was no longer than the width of my pinky nail. He was so cute, snuffling around in the sand amongst the grass. Please forgive my ignorance, but are cories live breeders or egg layers? I never even contemplated them having babies. Sneaky little boogers.
I will try to get a picture to post this evening. The problem is he is so small and hard to find. The thank is planted so that even the large adults I may not see but once or twice a week unless they are very active.
supgourami
06-30-2006, 9:59 AM
I do belive that cory's lay eggs.
Wishful
06-30-2006, 2:21 PM
Yep, egglayers. And typically pretty sneaky about it.
One of my favorite LFS employees spent eight months and hundreds of dollars trying to breed up a rare cory variety. Special tanks, lights, food, water changes, everything dedicated soley to getting them to breed successfully. Nothing spared..and nothing gained! Disgusted, he dumped the lot into one of his largest tanks and ignored 'em for six months. After a broken CO2 connection, an algae outbreak and a couple plant and fish deaths in that tank, he decided to clean it out, replant and restock it. Lo and behold, his original 8 cory had become 20. :)
Egg layers indeed. Once the eggs have hatched the little guys are quite tough. I never did anything special, except make sure a dropped a pellet or 2 of food where they tend to hide. Soon the baby will join the adults, a few weeks or so.
fishcatch22
06-30-2006, 10:53 PM
yep, given the right conditons, them egg-layers breed as prodigiously as humans! :joke:
Walker Anderson
07-11-2006, 11:33 AM
I finally got a picture of the little fella.
http://www.walkeranderson.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/baby%20cory.jpg
He's hard to catch on camera. I haven't seen him yet when he isn't in constant motion!
DaisyTattoo
07-11-2006, 11:34 AM
Awwwww....... :)
mtiller
07-11-2006, 1:31 PM
cute! i have 2 albinos and 2 peppered cories, i must have been unlucky from the start tho, maybe i have albinos of the same gender, hopefully the peppers will be a pair when they get older tho (1.5in. atm)
webcricket
07-11-2006, 10:37 PM
Aw, too cute! Is it a bronze cory? I'm hoping my guys will breed when they are a bit older!
kooter
07-18-2006, 12:53 AM
congratulations! Cute little guy. :dive2:
cichlidkeeper91
07-18-2006, 2:45 AM
it looks like and emerald cory. is it?
saray2004
08-01-2006, 12:50 AM
how adorable!!!! I have several cories and no babies yet :( Hopefully one day!!! :D
EahInMass
08-26-2006, 10:42 PM
oh he is so cute! My Sterbais have bred quite a few times...though because I have them in a community tank - I haven't raised any fry. My hun and I noticed the trick to get them to spawn is to keep the temperature around 75-78, making sure to do a cool water change and offer some live black worms. Everytime we've done this we have seen them lay their eggs the very next morning. I hope to possibly set up another tank and breed them this fall, as my tank has been too warm this summer for them to be interested. I think the Sterbais are truly the cutest - they are by far my favorite fish.