Albino Corydoras

[wiggle]

1 woke up this morning and looked in my tank...........millions of eggs! Usually we only get a few (maybe 100 or so) but they are everywhere! I'm not going overboard when i say i can hardly see the through the tank glass!! Anyway.....i have dug around in my shed and found my little spare tank, cleaned it all up .............and set up the little tank, and have spent the best part of new years morning carefully collecting some of the eggs for the small tank to give them a chance!
What can i feed them on if they hatch? I hear that some use microworms?? what else?
I would really really like to see some of these survive. Can anyone help??

 

[PC1963]

1 woke up this morning and looked in my tank...........millions of eggs! Usually we only get a few (maybe 100 or so) but they are everywhere! I'm not going overboard when i say i can hardly see the through the tank glass!! Anyway.....i have dug around in my shed and found my little spare tank, cleaned it all up .............and set up the little tank, and have spent the best part of new years morning carefully collecting some of the eggs for the small tank to give them a chance!
What can i feed them on if they hatch? I hear that some use microworms?? what else?
I would really really like to see some of these survive. Can anyone help??

Congratulation for your Cory eggs Normally eggs will hatchs 3-5 days. A lot people using microworms as you alreday know but I don't have the source for it, I'm using liquid fry and working for me [from Pet shop]. Good luck with the fry.

 

[NEONCORY]

1 woke up this morning and looked in my tank...........millions of eggs! Usually we only get a few (maybe 100 or so) but they are everywhere! I'm not going overboard when i say i can hardly see the through the tank glass!! Anyway.....i have dug around in my shed and found my little spare tank, cleaned it all up .............and set up the little tank, and have spent the best part of new years morning carefully collecting some of the eggs for the small tank to give them a chance!
What can i feed them on if they hatch? I hear that some use microworms?? what else?
I would really really like to see some of these survive. Can anyone help??

Congrat for the eggs so many . Here is the list of some small food you can use for tiny frys few days after they hatch and when they used up their own food(round egg sack belly). Usually 3~5 days. It depends on the temperature, strain of cory etc,.
infusoria, microworms, walterworms, vinegar eels, newly hatched brine shrimp(which sometime too big but they should take it within week. You can tell by looking their bellies when they do eating they will have orange bellies.) You can even use hard boiled egg yolk if you don't have any live small food ready for them but be careful not to feed too much and foul the water. You can also squeeze out the micro organism from the established filter media. Or you can go buy some food made for frys. Which most pet store should carry.
It would be good if you can set up spare sponge filter which would establish some micro organism which small frys could eat. You can even make sponge filter. Just web search "DIY sponge filter." while you are at it, try "infusoria culture" also. And look under "breeding corydoras." All cory frys pretty much same way to raise frys.
Good luck raising babies.
I never raised any cory but Pandas. Hoping Sterbai soon but they don't look ready this year. Anyway, I have no trouble raising Panda with walter worms(which I hear smaller than micro but pretty much same thing.) My adult like them also. And I keep adults with babies(after 2 weeks old or so), that way there are no leftover to foul the water. And adults doesn't bother frys, at least mine doesn't. I had more than few hatched and survived on their own when I started set up the breeding tank.
Anyhow, watch for the water. Make sure keep it clean. You can even change it daily 10% or so. Just use the water from the adult tank. That is another reason, good to have sponge filter which you don't have to worry about sucking frys.

 

[wiggle]

Thanks for the info on that! I feel like a new mum-we are already checking the tank every couple of hours (even though we know nothing is happening yet!)
I've also been watching the adults in the main tank.............i think there will be lots more eggs to come!!!
I will keep you posted on whats happening! cheers!

 

[nissansabre]

Hows about posting some pics?!!
How big were your corys when they spawned for the first time?

 

[wiggle]

Bad news really!!
I don't think i was careful enough.
We found a snail in the nursery tank...........been at the eggs.
Also some of the eggs went fluffy.......fungus i think. I am really dissapointed! We had millions of eggs....never seen so many! But i am really sure that there will be more..........it always happens twice in a short period of time.
Anything i can do to try again when the next lot come along?
I am soooooooooo annoyed about this!
Any ideas?

I have 5 corys all albino. I had more........but i set up a tank a couple of years ago at my parents house and i put a few corys in their tank.
As i said........before i started whittering on......i have 5 in my tank.
2 females and 3 males.
the biggest one......she is my oldest cory, have had her a couple of years, the others i've had about a year.
It took a while for the eggs to start happening-i guess the females were not mature enough?
I'll try and add some pics.