Cory Chaos

[Frank the Tank]

ok so my corys are spawning like clockwork these days and after alot of trial and error with hatching the eggs i've pretty much managed to reduce the amount of fry deaths i have and got around 90% survival rate. For those interested i am removing the eggs and putting them into a tupperware container with tank water and diluted methyl blue, i ll leave them in there till they hatch and then remove them and put them into a one of those fry traps that sit on the outside of your tank that connect to an airpump giving water circulation, i ll keep them there until big enough to roam free in my grow out tank

ok enough of the boring bits and here some pics

fry in external fry trap

bigger fry in grow out tank

i guess in total i have around 50-60 free swimming free and no i havent thought about what i gonna do with them all

 

[aquariumart22]

Cutee! I love cories.

 

[phoenixgsd]

love them, where are you, maybe sell privatly or supply your lfs

 

[Inchworm]

Hi Frank the Tank,

Thanks for sharing the pics with us. Your fry look like they are doing very nicely.

 

[Frank the Tank]

Thanks guys.

Looks like i spoke too soon, woke up this morning and they've spawned again...

 

[Cazgar]

Wow, that's a lot of babies.
They're very cute to watch, I have some a couple of weeks old now, & some that hatched yesterday

 

[twingogeekeo]

Sure you can sell them. Where you located?

 

[Frank the Tank]

I am in Glasgow, I've not really thought about selling them yet, i really only saved them all as i wanted to try hatch a few and watch them grow . I think it'll be another couple of months before they are at a decent nought size and i am sure i could get rid of them to lfs or on local ads

 

[Akasha72]

My lfs have offered cash for young cories as they know the hatching and growing on stage isn't an easy one. It's definitely worth asking if your lfs will do the same.

They look really nice healthy fry .. I hope I can get mine that far

 

[Cazgar]

My Lfs will either give me cash or store credit for mine when they're big enough.
Get to know the owners of your independent Lfs if you can, more often than not they'll give cash for locally bred healthy fish.
One of my local ones even makes a point of putting a label on the tank to say they're locally bred, not imported

 

[Akasha72]

My Lfs will either give me cash or store credit for mine when they're big enough.
Get to know the owners of your independent Lfs if you can, more often than not they'll give cash for locally bred healthy fish.
One of my local ones even makes a point of putting a label on the tank to say they're locally bred, not imported

Agreed, it pays to have a good relationship with an independent lfs. I've been taking my platy and guppy fry to the same lfs and also getting fish and plants from them and we're on first name terms now. They know my platy fry are well bred and well cared for and so they know that any cory fry will be the same

 

[hankbuck]

That sounds and looks great. I was trying to breed when I saw eggs and was unsucessful until I had other species die out and was left with the cories, which we kinda fell in love with. I gave up but in an effort to get them in another set up I had introduced them to a different substrate. A larger round gravel was what turned the trick with no effort by me. Because of this any eggs that fell off the side or plants as they were being eaten were provided with a protective environment to hatch and enough cover to keep from being eaten. I discovered the deal when my wife saw the fry swimming around and by that time they exceeded munch size. Or so it seems. So a few cycles of this and no success selling the new fish I ended up with 3 20 gallon tanks until I inherited a 55 gal tank and stand. Now I have about 45 and they are thriving. Very active and still generating eggs. I did reduce the size of the gravel so removing the easy-breed environment. But, it is a good thing to try if you really want to breed the larger size gravel gives them a navigable, protective nursery. Serendipity (dumb luck)strikes again.
Hankbuck