Corycat Spawned! Eggs!

[cooledwhip]

Hey everyone, I did a water change yesterday in my 45 gallon community tank. it has some rainbowfish, corycats, neon tetras, etc. I did cold water unintentionally bc it was hot yesterday and today I checked on my tank and there were eggs everywhere!! Eggs on the glass, on some plants, filter intake, everywhere. They had to be bc of the corycats. Some were kinda smooshed or it looks like they were eaten as the inside was kinda sucked out. I scraped them off the glass with a razor blade, and put them in a breeding box. I put an air stone in there and attached it to the bottom so the eggs have lots of O2. Am I doing this right? Never done this before. I left some eggs on the leaves.

 

[Munroco]

yep, spot on, don't make the air flow too high. What kind of cories? You are going to need food for them soon all being well, they usually hatch in 2-3 days and for a day or two after that won't need fed.
 
Is you breeding box floating in the tank? and does it share water with the tank? If bot you will need to do lots of little water changes

 

[cooledwhip]

It is a box, it is tank water but has no access to the tank. I plan to upgrade them to a net when they hatch. I have some first bites hikari ready. The flow is kinda high, but not too disruptive. I doubt they wil hatch because when I scraped them off some white stuff was like around the eggs and kinda bursted into the water column. Couldn't have been the eggs popping right? I doubt these guys will make it but I hope they do.
 
They are the green corydoras aenus. They arent green at all but hey, cool fish still haha. I realized how easy it was and I didn't even do anything so I might purchase some panda cories and dedicate them to a 10 gallon tank and have them breed there.
 
What is it again to breed them? Just lower the water temperature and do a cold water change?
 
 
Also some eggs on the bottom of the tank are still there. How likely is it that the fry will be eaten or get sucked up? There iS LOTS of ground cover. lots of caves and rocks, thats where the adult cories hang out. lots of plants too. I hope the ones I left in there make it as well.

 

[Akasha72]

hang fire on the net. I tried this and for the first few days they are small enough to sneak through any small gaps. Once they're out they'll be eaten. They'd be better kept in the box and you doing daily water changes (use the tank water, not fresh). I use a turkey baster for this
 
As for the one's left in the tank ... well, every month now I've had one or two baby panda's just turn up. They are living in my huge clump of java fern and appearing once they get to about 2cm. Provided any that hatch can find a good hidey hole where there's a food source I'm certain you will be the same as me ... they'll just turn up in about a month's time
 
Good luck

 

[cooledwhip]

Thanks much. Very excited.

 

[Akasha72]

I still get thrill from cory eggs and I've bred loads now. It is exciting