Cory Spawns - Help From The Experts :)

[Cooper2085]

So you have your cories, they spawn in your java moss.... Then you need to move the eggs into a net.

First question is - From your own expirience, whats the best way to move eggs from your tank, into there net/tub.

So your eggs are safely in there net/tub. You make sure there well aeriated with a stone or an filter pointed at them (or both) and you wait for them to hatch, watching for unfertilised eggs.

Second question is - From your own expirience whats the best way to control fungus eggs and do you remove them?

Then your eggs hatch! You have little wigglers eating there yolk sacks! After a few days there ready for food, but then more eggs hatch!

Third question is - How do you keep control? If you have 10 1 week old fry and then another 10 eggs hatch... do you use seperate nets?

And one final personal question from me. My fry are in a breeding net, with a fluval 2 pointed at it and a airstone in it. Theres a big clump of moss in the net with about 15 eggs in it. With the flow of the water and the airstone the moss floats up to the top, is it safe to weigh the moss down? Will it hurt and eggs and/or current fry that live in there?

 

[jollysue]

I have never used an airstone in the net. I have not found it necessary.

Like AlexandCarmen, I have snails in everything! LOL I seldom find any fungused eggs in the nets. Fungused eggs are from the eggs being infected with bacteria. Then fungus sets in after the eggs die from the bacterial infection. Some use ghost shrimp. The issue is keeping the eggs free of "stuff" that lead to bacterial infections.

It might be a good experience for you to use a tub with an airstone for one little group of eggs. That way you can see what goes on and the process they go through.

As long as the eggs are under the water they should be ok. I don't know how much turbulence the fry can handle.

Probably the best way is to move the eggs still attached to the moss or leaves. But if I have time I remove them from the moss and drop or rub them onto the moss in the net.

I have several spawns in succession in one net.

Many breeders break up the spawns to different nets in order to assure that a spawn won't be entirely lost.

Carmen is doing a good job ime directing you.

 

[Cooper2085]

Thanks for the reply Im eating icecream atm trying to empty the tub out so i can have another go at it The meshing i used on the other one wasnt good enough. I dont have any snails..... i know what they breed like, and i dont fancy an infestation lol

The panda fry in the current breeding net seem very hardy, there getting on for 1cm now and you can see the black markings on the face

 

[jollysue]

Thanks for the reply Im eating icecream atm trying to empty the tub out so i can have another go at it The meshing i used on the other one wasnt good enough. I dont have any snails..... i know what they breed like, and i dont fancy an infestation lol

The panda fry in the current breeding net seem very hardy, there getting on for 1cm now and you can see the black markings on the face

I wish you could post a pic of you eating ice cream to empty the tub to make a fishy tub thingie!
ICEEGRL would that! Me too!

 

[Cooper2085]

Haha.... Not going to happen! My Wii Fit would be wasted ^^

 

[jollysue]

Could look for the right kind of shrimp.

I just have them in a net with water current basting them. From what you said, they are doing good with what you are doing.