JessicaHeather
New Member
Hi
I've been keeping fish for a while now, amongst which are 4 Albino Corys which I inherited from someone. Upon recent investigation (I have had the fish almost a year) I discovered that my group was more than likely 2 m & 2 f - two of them are much bigger which I had previously assumed was just greediness!
So I thought I might try my hand at this breeding lark. We have a 3' tank which is set up and running as a hospital/quarantine tank, but luckily we have not had to use it and havent had any new fish for a long while. I moved the group into this tank, with a bare bottom, an airstone and a Fluval3 filter (I know this would suck up fry, but bear with me!)
I fed the group on a variety of flakes, pellets, frozen bloodworm & frozen brineshrimp, and did cooler water changes every few days. After about 3 days I got up one morning (about 6am) and found them at it. Observed the T-position, then my female would scatter them on the bottom of the filter (which was at an angle) and go rest, then start over again. She finally finished, after spreading a few on the glass nearby, and dropping a few onto the floor. Most were on the filter. I left the group a while, but they soon started picking the eggs off and eating them, so I moved them back into my main community tank.
Since the eggs were on the filter I couldnt remove it so just decided that on day 3 I would turn it off. I rearranged the airstone so that it was underneath the bulk of the eggs. I added Methylene Blue as per the instructions on the bottle (day 1 still) and suggestions around the web. For 3 days the eggs looked good. Some were clear with developing dots, and some seemed to have white splodges in (which I was led to understand from various online articles meant they were infertile). I didnt remove these for a couple of reasons. The first being that as they are albino the eyes are pink, so surely developing albino eggs would be pale...? and second the eggs were all very close together and removing one without another would have been very difficult.
After 3 days, I switched my filter off. However my water was still dark blue, and apart from things I have read on the net about meth blue disfiguring fry, the lady in my lfs said it should pale itself, which it hadnt. Therefore I did a water change of about 30%. This may have been very stupid. None of the eggs broke the surface and the water I put in was treated with tap safe and was the same temp.
However, the next morning I got up and all the eggs had grown a kind of fine white hair looking thing. After another day of wishful waiting I decided the eggs were gonners and got rid.
Where did I go wrong with these? Any pointers would be good.
Jessica
I've been keeping fish for a while now, amongst which are 4 Albino Corys which I inherited from someone. Upon recent investigation (I have had the fish almost a year) I discovered that my group was more than likely 2 m & 2 f - two of them are much bigger which I had previously assumed was just greediness!
So I thought I might try my hand at this breeding lark. We have a 3' tank which is set up and running as a hospital/quarantine tank, but luckily we have not had to use it and havent had any new fish for a long while. I moved the group into this tank, with a bare bottom, an airstone and a Fluval3 filter (I know this would suck up fry, but bear with me!)
I fed the group on a variety of flakes, pellets, frozen bloodworm & frozen brineshrimp, and did cooler water changes every few days. After about 3 days I got up one morning (about 6am) and found them at it. Observed the T-position, then my female would scatter them on the bottom of the filter (which was at an angle) and go rest, then start over again. She finally finished, after spreading a few on the glass nearby, and dropping a few onto the floor. Most were on the filter. I left the group a while, but they soon started picking the eggs off and eating them, so I moved them back into my main community tank.
Since the eggs were on the filter I couldnt remove it so just decided that on day 3 I would turn it off. I rearranged the airstone so that it was underneath the bulk of the eggs. I added Methylene Blue as per the instructions on the bottle (day 1 still) and suggestions around the web. For 3 days the eggs looked good. Some were clear with developing dots, and some seemed to have white splodges in (which I was led to understand from various online articles meant they were infertile). I didnt remove these for a couple of reasons. The first being that as they are albino the eyes are pink, so surely developing albino eggs would be pale...? and second the eggs were all very close together and removing one without another would have been very difficult.
After 3 days, I switched my filter off. However my water was still dark blue, and apart from things I have read on the net about meth blue disfiguring fry, the lady in my lfs said it should pale itself, which it hadnt. Therefore I did a water change of about 30%. This may have been very stupid. None of the eggs broke the surface and the water I put in was treated with tap safe and was the same temp.
However, the next morning I got up and all the eggs had grown a kind of fine white hair looking thing. After another day of wishful waiting I decided the eggs were gonners and got rid.
Where did I go wrong with these? Any pointers would be good.
Jessica
