Ok, so Wataugachicken is doing some water changes on the tanks, and she's doing the three month total break down on the filters for the oscar tank. They've been growing out in a 55 gal for three months, before that, it held angels and bronze cories. The cories spawned a few times, but the angels ate the eggs. But not all the eggs apparently.
One cory cat managed to be born or survive hiding out in the filter intake pipe. Lord only knows how, but between the intake and the impeller, it has spent the last three months. He's too small for his apparent age, and very thin for a cory. But he's alive!
He had two brothers upstream! Yeah, two cories, bigger, fatter, living on debris caught in the filter pad in the main filter box. We just found three juvie cory cats in a tank that's not housed anything but oscars and a bichir for three months. Watauga transfered them to the 150 where angels and cories live the big life. That's when tragedy struck...
The smallest cory, the one who grew up in the filter pipe was dazzled by the new lights, new smells, and all the room, when an angel swam up and snatched out one of it's eyes. It's living in a breeder box in the 150 while it gets settled down, and either heals up or dies. It's taken food already, and seems to be calm, not clamped, but the eyesocket is totally empty.
Of the other two, the fattest has breached it's way out of the breeder box into the main tank, and is starting to school with it's parents. The slightly smaller is hanging out with the filter tube cory in the box. They are all eating well, and swimming fine. I hope the littlest, one eye'd cory recovers. And I'll be keeping a close watch on the healing.
Amazing what they've accomplished for such little fish!
One cory cat managed to be born or survive hiding out in the filter intake pipe. Lord only knows how, but between the intake and the impeller, it has spent the last three months. He's too small for his apparent age, and very thin for a cory. But he's alive!
He had two brothers upstream! Yeah, two cories, bigger, fatter, living on debris caught in the filter pad in the main filter box. We just found three juvie cory cats in a tank that's not housed anything but oscars and a bichir for three months. Watauga transfered them to the 150 where angels and cories live the big life. That's when tragedy struck...
The smallest cory, the one who grew up in the filter pipe was dazzled by the new lights, new smells, and all the room, when an angel swam up and snatched out one of it's eyes. It's living in a breeder box in the 150 while it gets settled down, and either heals up or dies. It's taken food already, and seems to be calm, not clamped, but the eyesocket is totally empty.
Of the other two, the fattest has breached it's way out of the breeder box into the main tank, and is starting to school with it's parents. The slightly smaller is hanging out with the filter tube cory in the box. They are all eating well, and swimming fine. I hope the littlest, one eye'd cory recovers. And I'll be keeping a close watch on the healing.
Amazing what they've accomplished for such little fish!
