I found cory fry!

[Chrisk-K]

I didn't know my pandas laid eggs. Today I found one panda baby. That guy is only 2 mm long. I have two questions.

1. What should I feed the baby?
2. I have amano shrimps and other corys in the tank. Do they eat cory eggs?

 

[mizukie]

not sure about the shrimp but corys will try to pick the eggs off the walls and eat em x..x my jullis had laid eggs and before i could get them out the others ate em ._.

 

[TabisFish]

If they have more fry let me know. Very interested in buying some baby pandas!!! so cutie tootie!

 

[Chrisk-K]

Plants in the tank make it difficult to spot fry if there are any more. I moved the little fella to a 5g tank and s/he is eating Hikari shrimp cuisine pellets!

 

[TabisFish]

AWWWWWWWW. So cute. I demand a picture! teehee

 

[Big Mike]

Nice!! Oh yes pics please.

 

[H2Ogal]

I demand a picture! teehee

+1

 

[Chrisk-K]

S/he is way too small to be photographed at this point I'll post a pic later.

Anyway, I've read that it takes 2 months for cory fry to grow big enough for regular food. Since I have only one baby in a 5g, I wonder if s/he will be OK all alone with no companion for 2 months. Unless I find other fry in my main tank, I guess I have no solution (sigh).

 

[jetajockey]

My pandas spawned a few weeks ago and I didn't realize it either till i saw mini pandas everywhere. One thing I've noticed about pandas that is different from other corys is that they seem to like to hide their spawns, I believe mine hid there in java moss, there was not any eggs on the tank walls.

He's probably big enough to eat whatever the other ones are eating. baby brine shrimp or microworms would be nice but not totally necessary.

 

[MChambers]

My pandas spawned a few weeks ago and I didn't realize it either till i saw mini pandas everywhere. One thing I've noticed about pandas that is different from other corys is that they seem to like to hide their spawns, I believe mine hid there in java moss, there was not any eggs on the tank walls.

He's probably big enough to eat whatever the other ones are eating. baby brine shrimp or microworms would be nice but not totally necessary.

My pandas almost always lay their eggs on the glass, near plants. I have not seen other fish (or amanos) eat the eggs, but I suppose it could happen. When I see the eggs, I move them to a small tank with a sponge filter and lots of plants and hope for the best. I've gone from having 4 pandas to having about 30.