baby cories?

[WhispTech]

Ok so i was sitting there looking at my betta and such and seemed like my fish where in hyper drive.

I noticed on the side though a bunch odf small things swimming around. At first i thought it was particles but then after awhile I noticed that tehre was a bunch of them. Hard tocount how many but anyways i have no clue if they are actually baby cories but they look like very very very tiny whiskered fish . I had to use a magnifine glass from my coin collection to check them out. they are indeed alove and swimming but they are so tiny. i mean like if i wasnt sitting there for so long i probably would have not noticed.

Anyone have a link to a pygmy cory site that has close ups of like the beginings of baby fry and such so i can confrim this. I looked around and can't seem to find anything.

 

[WhispTech]

This is my artistic rendering of what I saw

The dot to the left of it is about the length going right to left but its actually a bit smaller then that.

 

[longhorn13]

congrats!

 

[Loach Lover]

Sounds like it could be baby cory cats, but hard to tell from your fantastic drawing

 

[Seb R]

Dunno I've hatched baby cories before, and at wriggler stage they are about 3mm. Also spend alot of time motionless on the bottom.

Hate to be a downer .... But I've tried to hatch cories alot and once some kind of water bug hatched from the eggs(!), I thought they were cories at first, but after a week they were still tiny and bug-like and swimming around like mad.


They may be babies, hope they are. Good luck anyway

 

[Inchworm]

after a week they were still tiny and bug-like and swimming around like mad.

Cory fry are tiny little things and they stay that way for some time. If you are used to raising quick growing livebearer fry, do not expect corys to grow anywhere near as fast.

It could be that you do have cory fry in your tank, WhispTech. When they first hatch, if they are not in a bare bottom tank, you might not even see them at all. Then your eye might get attracted by some sudden motion at the bottom that is too small and fast to follow if you are not expecting it. It might even take several tries to actually spot one.

It's unusual for cory fry to survive in a mixed tank because the other fish will eat them if they can. If they escape them, however, they can eat microscopic life on the gravel and plants until they are big enough to eat bits of flake and other foods you normally feed your corys.

If you are lucky enough to have dwarf corys that spawn, why not consider setting up a breeding tank and raise a whole batch of them?

 

[catwoman]

Your pic is actually pretty good. that's what my dwarf hastatus fry looked like. Mine also bred the first time in a mixed community tank and I didn't even know it. Apparently only one survived from that group. One day I realized I had one more cory than I thought. I took the other fish out so there were just cories and cherry shrimp. they bred again and I ended up with about 20 little guys. it was really all by accident. I didn't do anything special. My boyfriend thought the cory fry were really just some sort of insect larvae at first cause that's what they looked like. they were spotted too. There have been a few more fry here and there but not like the big spawn 5 months ago. i think I have too many cories in there now. The big spawn happened when I only had about 4 adults. I don't know if they eat their own eggs or young.