I think my Cories just had Eggs

Impudence12

Impudence12

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We moved the corydoras (5 of them, 2 different species) into the 32 gal tall with the angel fish. I just glanced over there and noticed what I thought was water stains on the front of the glass so I went over to wipe them off, but they are on the inside of the tank and are little white balls with spots in them. I don't think they are angelfish eggs since the angelfish hasn't seen another angelfish in years.

Assuming these are corydoras eggs, what do I do? I'd really like the angelfish not to eat them. She's not really concerned with the eggs atm, but that could change. I'll get some pictures, but all the eggs are are about 60% up the tank in the front left side. There's 1 on the left side of the tank in the same area, and one on the far right side at the same level.

Would it be feaseable to put some sort of dividor in the tank to keep the angelfish on one side with her being about to hurt herself on it? I'll go take some pictures.
 
Its not the angel Im worried about, its the cories, they are egg eatin machines. My cories bred in my 125. I simply scraped the eggs off the side with a razor blade and put them in my 10 gallon to hatch and grow. I saved all the ones I found and now have about 9 juvie cories. Try and get them quickly and good luck with them.
 
I don't have a spare 10gal, but I do have a spare 5g as well as a small aquaclear in the 32g for emergencies. Girlfriend wants to see them so I'll have to wait a bit to move them tho.

These are the only non-blurry pictures (so hard to take good pictures..)

How long did/do they take to hatch?

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I love your windelev fern, and those are definitely cory eggs. Scrape and place them in the 5 gallon with the filter set on low flow and the temperature between 72 and 75 degrees F. You need to place a sponge or panty hose over the filter input so fry dont get sucked in. Also I would put an airstone in the tank as well. Generally it takes about 10 days for the eggs to hatch. Have some brine shrimp or some type of fry food handy. I myself use brine shrimp. I release the brine shrimp a day or so before hatching so the fry can eat as soon as they hatch.
 
sorry to be off topic but i really like how you've displayed your gravel! i did the same thing, only i used black sand!
 
The LFS only sells the blue stuff, not sure why, so all our tanks with sand have bright blue in them. Black would be cool, at the very least it would look a bit more natural.

Thank you, I'm kinda proud of that fern, I bought a plant with about 5 leaves on it and have fleshed it out into what you see. I feed guppy fry crushed up flakes. Would crushed (powdered) sinking food suffice?
 
Just a note, my corys never ate their eggs...so you may just leave them there. Be sure to cover your filter intakes with sponges. I found 3 cory fry in my canister.
 
that doesn't look like many eggs. they will probably lay more or some have been eaten already. unless there are some elsewhere in the tank. that's just my opinion though because i only had 2 cories and they had way more eggs than that when they mated. good luck hatching them and yeah, you tank is looking pretty cool.
 
So far I moved them to the 5gal with the smaller filter. I just took the tube from the water changing thing (so the suction was more) Then filled the 5gal while poking the eggs and they'd get sucked up and end up in the small tank. I've counted 15 in the small tank, and since they are nearly impossible to see them I assume the rest made it. There were none in the tube or on it afterwards so there's very few options.

I've hunted thru the 32gal for any more and I do see a few more, on leaves and what not going fishing after I post this. In retrospect all the cories were going crazy this morning so that's probably when it happened, but I look over at the tank pretty frequently so who knows.

Edit: Ok after getting 3 more, and counting as best I can I've counted 17. So 3 are MIA of the assumed 20 eggs that I've attempted to move. I looked at all the leaves front and back, except the java fern. I'm fairly confindent that those are all the eggs. I just put a breding net thing over the filter intake in lue of having a sponge. (if it keeps them in it should keep them out too :P)

Edit again: As soon as I typed that I see another on the glass, so they aren't done yet.

!! I've seen her doing it! It's a trilineitiasdfsadf one. She just poped 3 more into the java fern.. I'm tempted to take the whole thing out the tank and put it in the breeding one.
 
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29 give or take 1 for anyone keeping score. whew.. it is HARD to find them in the java fern, just FYI for anyone planing to breed cories.

I found the mom, she's a trileantus (can't spell it) with a black tipped dorsal fin. There only 2 of those and 3 similar ones, but they aren't julies or triline ones. They have a black spot over there eyes (sooo adorable) Just like panda cories, but they are dotty like a tril.. one. Is it possible she was getting busy with the other species or is the only other exact same species the father?

Make that 30 +/-1
 
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