But I'm Not Ready To Be A Dad!

[FISH-FRY]

I saw my largest Panda Cory (one of several fish with puffy bellies after feeding brown worms) swimming around like crazy moments ago and then noticed the anal fins clutched with white balls in them. I grabbed a camera and below is the best picture I could snap since she seemed like she was in a hurry. Eventually the fins went back and there were no more balls. I don't even know where any of them went. I looked around and she either did a good job at hiding them or the others have already munched them down.

Time to go do some reading on breeding.

Wow the tank is only 4 weeks young and my Red Cherry Shrimp had some babies swimming around not too long ago and now this.

 

[FISH-FRY]

Here are a couple eggs that I just found and there were several more in the rear that I didn't bother to take pics of. I noticed them as i swirled around the plants before starting to do a water change. Guess I'll leave the plants alone and see what happens. Shrimp like to hang out up there (there's one now) and not sure if they are making meals of them.

 

[Inchworm]

Hi FISH-FRY

C. pandas are often avid spawners but are just as often egg eaters too. The females must know this since they will try to hide them in plants, etc. Once a female starts you might get eggs every week or so. Try hanging metal thermometers in the tank. They might spawn on the underside of them and the eggs can them be easily removed to hatch elsewhere.

 

[FISH-FRY]

Hi FISH-FRY

C. pandas are often avid spawners but are just as often egg eaters too. The females must know this since they will try to hide them in plants, etc. Once a female starts you might get eggs every week or so. Try hanging metal thermometers in the tank. They might spawn on the underside of them and the eggs can them be easily removed to hatch elsewhere.

Thanks for the info and tip.

I found about eight eggs on the Tropical Hornwort. I never noticed where she dropped them the day I saw her holding the eggs. I fed some more worms yesterday and they were running circles around each other and it's not something I normally see.

I'm actually not looking at breeding anything and really not wanting to keep another tank. I'm going to see what happens within the tank and if it happens then it happens. My stocking doesn't allow for accidental guests so if they end up hatching and surviving then I'll probably look for people at work to give them away to.

 

[FISH-FRY]

I was looking at some new growth underneath a Java fern leaf and grabbed a flashlight for better observation and this little thing with a clear body and brownish tint in the head part of the body jetted out of it and was nowhere to be found. I'm wondering if it's one of the Pandas that hatched. The eggs aren't so white now and have a brownish U looking shape in it. I don't have a good vantage point to see the eggs so I'm officially not going to mess with any of the plants or anything else except careful water changes because there's just too much life going on in there. In a good way!

I saw a baby Red Cherry Shrimp on my heater yesterday and it's about five times bigger since the last time I saw one. It actually has a brownish/reddish color to it and looks more like a shrimp now. It crawled into the heater after watching it a few momemnts. Who knew that would be a great place for them to hide in and away from all the fish. I wonder how many more are hiding out.

 

[Inchworm]

Hi FISH-FRY

It's quite possible that they have been spawning before you caught them at it. If a fry can hide long enough to get to the point where it doesn't get eaten, it will grow up for you. While it's tiny it will eat the microorganisms that grow naturally in the tank. Just take care when you do your water changes that you don't vacuum it up.

 

[Harlequins]

Ooo i would to be a mom to my panda babes,hope you're wee ones do ok

 

[FISH-FRY]

I only see one egg around but that doesn't mean the plants didn't spin around where I can't see the others. Not many fish hang out up there that may eat them. The ones that usually hang out on the floating plants are the Red Cherry Shrimp and not sure if they would feast on the eggs. I'm always checking out what they're doing and they're busy cleaning off the needles.

Some more may have hatched and in safe hiding, hopefully. Now that the terrible work week is over I have more time to view although the weather is going to be beautiful and in the 70s so I'll probably be hanging outdoors this weekend.

Maybe I'll have some pics in a week or so.

 

[FISH-FRY]

I believe there are two Corydoras swimming around with eggs now. Sometimes I see up to four of them together swimming around each other and sometimes they are chasing other fish for short distances. For some reason at least one of them in swimming upside down the Wisteria a lot. I've seen the anal fins clamped with eggs and never see where they deposit them.

What has me concerned is that I saw one lean on it's side onto the plant and another seemed to suck hard on at least one of the anal fins. I wasn't sure this is what I saw until they did it again at another location. Is this part of the mating behavior or is there some hostility going on?

It was frozen brine shrimp day and everyone is very active this evening. Even Gary is out of hiding and resting just below the water line. I didn't see how he got there but he's been there for at least the last 4 hours.

 

[Inchworm]

Hi FISH-FRY

What has me concerned is that I saw one lean on it's side onto the plant and another seemed to suck hard on at least one of the anal fins. I wasn't sure this is what I saw until they did it again at another location. Is this part of the mating behavior or is there some hostility going on?

What you have seen is part of the spawning behavior and is known as the T-position. The male is the smaller of the two and is on the bottom. When they separate the female will swim away with fertilized eggs in her fins and may or may not rest a moment before she looks for a place to deposit them. Here's a video so you can see the entire process.

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPfSHgiTYgA&layer_token=e590aa3356af1d26

 

[FISH-FRY]

Hi FISH-FRY

What has me concerned is that I saw one lean on it's side onto the plant and another seemed to suck hard on at least one of the anal fins. I wasn't sure this is what I saw until they did it again at another location. Is this part of the mating behavior or is there some hostility going on?

What you have seen is part of the spawning behavior and is known as the T-position. The male is the smaller of the two and is on the bottom. When they separate the female will swim away with fertilized eggs in her fins and may or may not rest a moment before she looks for a place to deposit them. Here's a video so you can see the entire process.

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPfSHgiTYgA&layer_token=e590aa3356af1d26

Thanks for the info and link. I took this quick clip and have it here raw.

 

[Harlequins]

Fab video of your pandas spawning fishfry

 

[Inchworm]

Nice video, FISH-FRY! Thanks for sharing it with us.

 

[FISH-FRY]

Thanks. It's all luck as to when something happens and when you grab a cam to catch those moments. It also depends on having many creatures in there and the more likely you'll have something exiting going on. I figured since I have a small tank then my inhabitants should be small if I wanted as many as possible. I'd rather have 22 little guys where I'm guaranteed enjoyment instead of 4 bigger guys that may or may not be around for me to even see.

That 28 second clip was bout 81MB @ 1280x720p and wound up a 3.8MB file after conversion. You never know what kind of bandwidth everyone has so pushing out bigger sized files is not always good. Hopefully it played fine from the hosted site.

I like pictures and video because it helps others see what you're trying say better.

 

[Harlequins]

i agree,i was lucky enough to catch the tri's in t- position today and managed to get the camera video going before they stopped