Corydoras Eggs and Raising them

Sonic Tooth

Sonic Tooth

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Well, to the suprise of my brother and I, we found eggs on the side of the tank this afternoon.

The tank is a 10 gallon with 2 peppered cory catfish, 1 common pleco (Yes, too big for this tank and yes is moving. My brother really loves that fish, so it's hard), and 4 ottos.

We assume the eggs are from the corys...

What I am wondering is:

Will the pleco eat the eggs tonight?

Will the ottos bother them?

How should one remove the eggs from the side of the tank? We have counted 8 eggs so far, and there may be more.

Any other tips on raising corys would be much appreciated. Thanks.


The pictures just show some of the ottos and a full tank shot. Couldn't get a good picture of the eggs.

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Thanks Dixon... I realized I should have put this here as well, but it was a little late.
 
Your eggs will most likely get eaten. If you could find a way to isolate that part of the tank until they hatch. Then feed them live baby brine shrimp. BTW congrats.:)
 
We've moved them to a separate tank.. They were fairly easy to move, I just going them on the edge of a net and gently placed them in another tank... I hope the eggs are fertilized, since we have two corys but both of them could be females...
 
well I have some of those peppered corys and it seems they are laying eggs like mad all the time, I wanted to save them so I scraped them off the side with my fingers, they hatched and I fed them first bites Hikari food, but beware this stuff really fouls the water, which can be lethal to the survival of your fry. what I like to do is make a paste out of the food by putting a semi large amount of the powder onto a hard surface(paper plate) and add a small amount of water to the powder. I keep adding water until I get the right consistancy of a thick doughy paste, I then make small/ tiny wafers(small like a sesame seed size), I then let these dry. Then when you feed them you can have portions that will sink easily and cleanly, throughout the tank in portions that are not all spread out through the tank. I keep them in the same tank in a box breeder, (guppy breeder with the trouph taken out, got it cheap at petsmart).
NOte : That the fry do not need to be fed until their egg sacs have been used up, that may take about 2-3 days, however you can add those wafers of baby food in case they use their sacs earlier.
After the fry have grown from eating the first bites they may be big enough to eat blackworms, if you can get some live blackworms(tubifex) then you can finely chop these up and the fry will go mad over this new food. From then on they will grow like weeds, however they will not mainly grow in length but instead they will be developing their fins and also fill out.

KEEP THE WATER CLEAN! that is the biggest factor in keeping the fry alive.
 
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