Yeah i found it but crappy selling my Fry. All my hard work for 50c a fish. I couldn't keep them though because endless fry. I'd find it really hard to re-home super cute cories. I'd be stalking eBay for a new tank 
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Help! My cories spawned! What do I do??
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Hey, I give away my guppy fry for free! I'm happy he's willing to take them at all, I'd be stuck if he didn't accept them. Occasional free fish food or knocks a few off my total, and I never ask. They can't charge much for an adult guppy or platy, so don't expect them to give you much for them either!Yeah i found it but crappy selling my Fry. All my hard work for 50c a fish. I couldn't keep them though because endless fry. I'd find it really hard to re-home super cute cories. I'd be stalking eBay for a new tank
Since I only have eight babies (at the moment, don't want to tempt fate and assume they'll all make it) I'm planning to keep the all, even if it means I get a bigger tank. If they spawn again and a lot more make it, then I'd have to sell them to the LFS
I'd want some store credit, since bronzes are worth a bit more, but even then, I only paid £10 for four adults, so I wouldn't be trying to breed them for profit or anything, they'd cost more to raise than I'd ever make from them!
Are you feeding them the micro worms yet @AdoraBelle Dearheart ?
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Yep, they've been on those for a while, since they were 4-5 days old. Also still some First Bites added too, and last night I gave them frozen cyclops and rotifers too
Mine are looking a lot like Adorabelle's. I think I have about eight. If they all survive, we'll keep three and sell five. C. schulzei cost about £7 a head when you buy them from any LFS, so I reckon I should get about a fiver each.
I would really like my CW045s to breed, because those guys are worth £20 per head, and it would be cool to have a few more for myself. But I've not seen any breeding behaviour from them. I've had the black corys a lot longer, though.
I would really like my CW045s to breed, because those guys are worth £20 per head, and it would be cool to have a few more for myself. But I've not seen any breeding behaviour from them. I've had the black corys a lot longer, though.
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I got lucky, I'd only had my four adults for less than two months when they bred. Maybe set up a breeding tank for the CW045s and try to induce spawning with lots of live/frozen foods and some cooler water changes?
In theory, yeah, but in reality, every bloody corner of this flat that can have a fishtank has a fishtank. There is no way you could squeeze another in, and stocking being what it is, no practical way to rearrange existing fish. Could try them on more live foods, though. Currently everyone gets blackworms once per week.
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Worth a try!
I accidentally helped condition mine by feeding some frozen food daily. I was feeding small frozen food like daphnia, cyclops and rotifers for the guppy fry that there in there, and giving the cories some bits of frozen bloodworm, tubifex or brine shrimp, but of course they ate any of the frozen food that made it past the guppy fry. If you can get away with some cooler water changes in their main tank, might help too! Worth a shot, right?
We needs pics of your fry!
The raphael cats would certainly think they've gone to heaven if I started feeding that tank live or frozen food daily.
That tank has been at 23C because I had a rubberlip plec, but since it sadly died, there is no reason why the aquarium can't be a few degrees warmer. I saw on Corydoras world someone had spawned CW045 at 24.
That tank has been at 23C because I had a rubberlip plec, but since it sadly died, there is no reason why the aquarium can't be a few degrees warmer. I saw on Corydoras world someone had spawned CW045 at 24.
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I'm sorry about your pleco
But sounds like it would be worth giving the breeding a go!Yeah, it's just a matter of finding the eggs before the raphaels do. Don't think we're replacing the rubberlip, as the big female bristlenose seems to prefer being the only pleco in the tank, and I'm not sure our water was hard enough for it.
I get ya. Platy sell for €3.50 so they still get a good deal. I don't mind a few fry but when they're taking over a tank I was eager to re-home. Bronze Cory are €5 each here. I think overall fish cost more here. And pretty much everything else in the hobby.
Not really profit driven more that I don't see it worth the time & effort & having a tank of fry. I prefer to have a tank with fish I can enjoy hopefully long term
Not really profit driven more that I don't see it worth the time & effort & having a tank of fry. I prefer to have a tank with fish I can enjoy hopefully long term
I feel that breeding is the next level up of fishkeeping, like you've achieved something if your tank conditions are good enough for your fish to breed. Plus, you get some interesting behaviours, especially in fish that take care of their young, like plecos and apistogrammas, and baby fish are cute. The downside of the plecos and apistos is that they fall out with one another, whereas corys don't.
So do all of you guys still have yours in a breeder net? I found another Cory fry so I have 5 survivors that I know of in my 10G tank. My 2nd 5G tank is housing the eggs from the new spawn. Hope more survive this time. I bought a breeder net to try this time but it had some little gaps in it. I was afraid the fry would get through and stuck in the panty hose I had over it so back to the tank.
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