Baby Cory Crisis

[saphphx]

I use to breed cories. I've had lots of local tap water trouble and so on and lost a lot of my stock, the others just stopped breeding, so I thought I was done, put my brine shrimp eggs away and ignored my microworm cultures.

On the third, my albino cories were going mental. So much so I checked the water, checked everything, electrics, the lot. I ended up putting a towel over them as they drove me that nuts.

I woke up on the forth with eggs everywhere. So, I figured I would order some more starter microworms and have it all sorted by hatch day.

My friend called with an emergency then I had a major project at work, THEN another friend with an emergency and I forgot all about them.

Til tonight, when it suddenly clicked. I hauled it to my fish room to find a tub of the smallest wigglers I have EVER seen.. no culture... and someone moved my brine shrimp eggs, and my back up "ready mix just add water" packets have also been "tidied up" - I hate rearranging things, everything goes missing. Screwed!

So, I am freaking. I search the whole house for the eggs, add water to my cultures, find my baby Endler food and soak it and fed them that for tonight. THANKFULLY even after over 6 months of being ignored one of my two microworm cultures perked up, so I split it off into a fresh one and should have microworms by tomorrow. So, I hope they eat the sunken micro powdered fish food I gave them and make it through the night.

What are the odds they will live? Anyone have some brine shrimp eggs I can buy off them? I would get a whole can, but to be honest I will NEVER use a whole can. I need like 2 tablespoons, tops.

I am a bad fish mommy.. I should ALWAYS be prepared for babies!

(x-posted everywhere. I am normally so prepared this has me well freaked out and panicked! None of my locals sell bbs eggs or bbs either!!)

 

[jollysue]

Congrats! babies

I actually never use live food until they reach live blackworm size. I have some jarred bbs. But mostly I use Hikari and Atison's fry powders, with green water.

I have heard of using boiled egg yolk.

 

[drewry]

i use Hikari first bites ,liquafry no 1 ,and boiled egg york then after a week i crush pellits up with flake
and they seem to do great on it

 

[AlexAndCarmen]

I use Hikari baby bites too, as well as micro worms and grindal worms.

Good luck.

 

[saphphx]

thanks all! the Hikari First Bites is what they got last night! Still can't find my shrimp eggs and my other half has no idea what I am talking about lol! Going to do them an egg tonight too!

Thanks again!

 

[drewry]

make sure you only put a bit of the egg york in as its a pain in the back side to get all the bits out if you put to mutch in

 

[jourdy288]

And remember, no salt!

 

[saphphx]

make sure you only put a bit of the egg york in as its a pain in the back side to get all the bits out if you put to mutch in

haha will do I did that with the hikari stuff tonight, they are to small to catch so I put them in a bigger tub and added more water slowly to hopefully water it down

And remember, no salt!

I never use salt. EVERY time I do, no matter how I do it or what salt I buy from who, the fish dies. I've even killed brackish fish with salt. Salt hates me

 

[Cory_Dad]

Congratulations!

It's always exciting when this happens.

One question though, isn't it a bit too soon to start feeding them? Don't they still have their yolk sacs? Ok, that was two questions.

Hope all goes well.

Cheers.

 

[saphphx]

to be honest, I have no idea, they are so friggen small this time I can't see them - so I just waited a day then fed them a little. they seem ok though.

The parents however... are on a roll. They layed yesterday and AGAIN today!! lol Pics when I get home