Corys Laid Eggs - What A Rush!

[Cory_Dad]

This morning I was watching my Corys doing their dance amongst some plants (they acted like snakes; coiling around each other). At the same time the zebra danios were going nuts around them nipping at the plants, which I thought was odd. So on closer inspection I saw some eggs! I quickly ripped out the plant and dumped it into my 10 gal. fry tank and was contemplating having a fish fry with the danios.

Cooler heads prevailed and I forgot about that train of thought when I saw the Corys going at it again. I then quickly transfered them to the 10 gal. as well (talk about coitus interruptus). The males were still bugging her but she wasn't responding so I thought that was that and went to eat breakfast (not the danios). When I got back I noticed eggs on the glass! That was around 10:30 AM. It's now 5:30 PM and they are still at it. I've been watching and photographing them all this time. What a rush.

I'm going to leave them in there for the night before transferring back into the 60 gal. The fry in the tank must have been in shock to see their parents delivering their younger siblings, in fact a couple of times they got into the middle of the fracas. Most of them are stying out of sight.

Here are a couple of pictures (I hope the links work):

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The last one is the most awesome.

If anyone can identify the corys I would appreciate it as the lfs I bought them from mis-identified them as elegans.

Of course this happens 3 days before I leave on a weeks vacation. Do you think they'd let me take the 10 gal. with me to Mexico on the plane?

My wife is killing herself laughing at my concern for the corys considering my laise faire (spelling?) attitude when our kids were young.

Sorry for this rambling post but I guess you can tell that I'm excited.

Cheers.

Update:

I just moved the parents to the 60 gal.; the female looked like she was nibbling on the eggs. Better safe than sorry.

 

[bike_riding_cichlid]

Remove the happy parents from the tank. they will eat the eggs before they can hatch!

 

[kribensis12]

NICE! I bleive it's spelled Laize Fair( i think) we were going over it in a History revue a couple years ago in 7th grade. For those of you who dont know what it means, it's basically not interfering. I could ge thte pics to work, it said "page not found".

 

[Inchworm]

Hi Cory_Dad

It's always exciting to watch corys spawn! Congratulations!

I couldn't get the links to work either, but hope you can post them again either now or when you return from vacation.

 

[phistar]

link doesn't work... might wanna check that out buddy

congrats btw

 

[Elaine2]

The link worked OK when I tried it yesterday. I wonder if there's some peculiarity in the system that means it only works in the UK??

Correction - just tried it again and it no longer works!

 

[Cory_Dad]

Grrr.

Just tried it myself from a different computer and it didn't work for me either; I really hate these computers which is funny since this is my career.

I fixed the links in the next post.

As an update, all the eggs still look ok. This is gonna be tricky doing the water changes and tank bottom cleaning with eggs spread all over the place.

Man, I am so excited.

Oh, and thanks for correcting the spelling. Being a Canadian (and supposedly bi-lingual) I should know how to to spell but it's been decades since I took French in high school.

 

[Cory_Dad]

Ok, that didn't work too well (if you cut/paste the http...it does sort of work).

Let's try again:

Hope this works.

 

[Cory_Dad]

It worked!

Learn something new every day....

On the last picture, notice the eggs between the pelvic fins. There are already eggs on the tank's glass to the left.

If you guys weren't all in cyberspace and if it were politically correct I'd buy you all cigars.

Cheers.

 

[Inchworm]

Hi Cory_Dad

I'm glad to see you got the pictures posted. They are just beautiful, so clear and sharp!

When are you going to leave for your vacation? Will someone be taking care of them while you're away?

 

[Cory_Dad]

Hi Cory_Dad

I'm glad to see you got the pictures posted. They are just beautiful, so clear and sharp!

When are you going to leave for your vacation? Will someone be taking care of them while you're away?

Thank you.

The eggs hatched over night and there are a lot of them. When I got back from work this evening a lot of them were bunch together and appeared not to be moving so I thought they were dead. During my regular siphon clean up I found that they weren't dead, just 'resting'. Spent the next 1/2 hour sucking them back out of the bucket.

Luckily I just bought an ammonia test kit for my 60 gal.; it was a 0, BUT the 10 gal. was a .5. Argh, poor babies! Quick 30% water change and replaced the charcoal with ammonia removing chips.

ok, ok, drewry is right again, no plants, no rocks, nothing but babies in tank. I was hoping, because I can't change the water every day (in this case for several till my oldest comes in on Friday to change it) that I could build up the bacteria in the tank and the Aqua Clear 20. Guess I was wrong.

I've got an automatic feeder for my 60 and my youngest is going to feed the 2 week olds (in same tank as the fry) First Bites twice a day.

I hope something is alive when I get back a week tomorrow. One of my 2 week old babies was resting on it's side so I hope at least those will survive.

I'm such a whiner, aren't I...

Oh, does anyone know what kind of Corys are in the above pictures? I'd sure like to know.

Thanks, and cheers till next Wednesday night.