Interesting find.....

pinkertd

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Just finished feeding the sids their evening bloodworms. So I'm checking the tank out, see how the plants are and making sure everything in there looks the way it's supposed to....when my eye catches sight of an egg on one of the willow leaf hygros. Right away I'm thing, wow, smaller than I remember for the albino cories. I have my group of 6 adult albino cories, two otos and two of my baby bristlenose in there with the sids for now. Then I spot one more egg on the very edge of a leaf. I'm still thinking these eggs are really tiny. I have some mosses growing on driftwood in there so I wanted to get the eggs and set them into the moss. Cory eggs are very adhesive, I've moved them before. The first egg I try to move rolls off, no adhesiveness to speak, and tumbles away from me into the gravel:angryfire:. So for the second one, I break the leaf off and put it over top of the moss and it rolls into the moss and almost rolls off the edge! Now unless I'm losing my mind, the cory eggs were always way, way sticky. And bigger than these. Dare I even consider that one of the sids may have spawned today????? Oh be still my heart!!! :thud:
 
Swwwwet find there is nothing more exiting than finding an egg and having no clue wat it is!!!:headbang2:
 
got my fingers and toes crossed
 
Well that egg fungused, and somebody found it later on and ate it. I just know it wasn't a cory egg, and doubtful that it was my otos. They show no spawning behavior or even any indication that they are a male and a female. Now I do have two otos in my CPD tank that flirt around all the time. It's really cute. So............I'm hoping it was a sid and will continue on with their care as I have been doing. I'm culturing white worms to feed them live, just takes forever, it seems, to get the culture big enough where I can start using some of them. But they are growing and multiplying.
 
Any hatch out yet? Can't wait for the update. Hopefully you'll have some mini munks to feed in a lil bit.
 
Hope it turns out better next time!
 
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