Difference in spawning

[Erised]

4 days ago we moved the albino corydoras from my brothers tank (he finally gave up on fish) to my mums re-decorated 75G .... today they spawned!! Now, I'm used to my peppers spawning, I've seen them do it at least 10 times and am currently raising about 100 fry of them. I never expected the albinos to spawn!! First off, I didnt even know we had 1m & 1f untill 4 days ago, second the water is a high temp (around 28C) which I thought would be way too warm (it is for my peppers) and last, well ... I just didnt expect it

It was great fun watching them though! And they do it so differently than my peppers. My peppers will do a proper T, then lay the eggs everywhere (plants, all sides of the tank etc), thats all there is to it.

The albinos are sooo different. Not only do they use the T position, the male will also swim over the eggs once they're on the glass (on his side, top out of the water) to fertilise them even more! The female is holding the eggs for what seems forever, and then lays them all on the same spot! not all over the tank. The male also gards the eggs and chases away everything that comes near them (including the 10cm long chinese algae eaters ) Its really great fun to see!

The eggs ofcourse, will also get collected in a couple of hours. Looks like I'll be raising my very first batch of albino fry soon (I get to do the looking after eggs and fry because I got spawning tanks set up and all that, mum only has the 75G & a 15G fully of guppies)

I'm gonna go back and have a look again now

--Edit--

Forgot to mention that there's 1 adult peppered corydoras in there (dont worry, there's 9 large fry in there too, waiting for them to grow into adults) ... she really badly wants to breed as well now. She keeps trying to get the male albino to breed with her, but he has no time to even look at her! (so nasty ) ... now what she does is once he's fertilising the eggs the albino female is holding, she'll swim up to it and quickly drop some eggs near him, hoping she'll be lucky! Its ever so hilarious! Dont worry, because she doesnt hold the eggs in her hurry, they all fall to the bottom and get eaten anyway.

 

[newfishies]

quite the little soap opera going on in your tanks!!!

 

[nitro]

Congrats on the spawning.

You going to sell them if you raise them successfully?

 

[Erised]

I more than likely will. I'll up the shoal in the main tank first, and perhaps keep some for in my own tank. The rest will be sold or given away.

 

[a.i.m]

Well i hope mine goes as well as yours albino corydoras does at breeding!!
Ive not seen it happen before so im excited as it sounds like somthing definitely worth seeing.
What do you feed your fry on to start with?
Do you remove the fry or eggs from the main tank and put them into rearing tanks? if so how do you do it?

 

[Erised]

I remove the eggs a couple of hours after being layed. I simply syphon them out with an airtube They wont stick anymore, so I just lay them on the bottom of my fry/hatching tank.

The first days I feed them on liquid fry (make sure you have the one for egg layers), after that on very finely crunched flakes, algae tabs broken into quarters (they're small to start off with, about 7mm before broken up). I also hatch brine shrimp so I start feeding them baby brine shrimp around the ago of 2 weeks. Once big enough they also get small bloodworms, dapnia & brine shrimp.