Nice! Congrats on the babies. Feed them several times a day and keep the water as clean as you can and you should be able to get some to live.
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thanks for that, im doing daily water changes, using a pipette to pull up all the bits off the bottom, and then carefully using a cup to remove the water, then im making sure the new water is exactly the same temp and treated with dechlorinator before adding to them. they seem fine at the moment, 2 started acting very odd last night, spinning in circles while swimming, i watched for a while and they were laying on their sides when they drifted back to the bottom, so i removed them. but the others are all still very active and im hoping at least a couple will survive.
good news, just finished todays water change, and no deaths, all look very active and are swimming from top to bottom, and when i put my hand in with them to remove the air stone etc they all swim straight over to see whats happening, and 2 were playing some sort of game of chase through my hand and round again-they are so adorable!
:thm: Sounds like you are on the right track. I'm sure you will get some to live through to adults. The fry are fun to watch and they do trip over their own fins once in a while...
ok i have some photos of the little guys but i cannot figure out how to paste them in here. i have tried the paper clip thingy but it wont let me find them, it takes me to my pictures but they are in my bluetooth file and i cant figure how to put them into my pictures file. oh well, guess you are destined not to meet the babies 
anyway, there are 33 left now,lost a couple through the night, but they were an odd shape to the rest of them, they had very big bellies, and were see through not dark like the survivors who are looking great, this morning they are much darker than they were, i can see their eyes as little black spots, and can see their front fins. they seem to be growing by the hour! they are so active, and bump into each other like little teeny tiny bumper cars
erv: when one bumps into a group they scatter everywhere!
anyway, there are 33 left now,lost a couple through the night, but they were an odd shape to the rest of them, they had very big bellies, and were see through not dark like the survivors who are looking great, this morning they are much darker than they were, i can see their eyes as little black spots, and can see their front fins. they seem to be growing by the hour! they are so active, and bump into each other like little teeny tiny bumper cars
erv: when one bumps into a group they scatter everywhere!
still working on the pics! as for the babies, we lost 1 last night, but 32 are looking very good, all have gone much much darker, and we can now see their little tails taking shape, and they all swim around and find the food as soon as it goes in,and they are swimming around much more than they were aswell, they barely seem to rest. im now on the lookout for a bigger tank for them to grow out in, just until they are big enough to go into the main tank, though im dreading if they all live and i have to pick just a few to go in there. with 15 neon tetra and 3 male guppies, how many corys can fit into a 30 gallon long tank?
update, 12 of the original fry are still going strong, we had a big die off a couple of days ago, but the rest are fine, and last night the next batch hatched, so we have another 8-10 i think,all are in the same nursery tank so its going to be survival of the fittest. only time will tell if any make it to adulthood i suppose, im wanting to get the bigger fry into the main tank asap, what size will they be safe from mum and dad and the neons and guppies? oh and the nursery tank is a 24 x12 x 12 with a mini filter on it, a patch of gravel and a log for hiding and some live plants.
