Eggs

[vix]

Hi everyone,

Could do with a little help and advice if possible. While examining my tank for guppy fry this morning, i noticed a few clear eggs, extremely tiny. I am assumming they are from the Peppered Corys I am extremely new to this and have no idea what to do next or hatch the eggs successfully.

Any help will be great

Many thanks

Vix

 

[flumpit2]

hi vix,congratulations on the eggs!!!!!

what i did when my peppers laid eggs was to remove the eggs carefully to a smaller bare bottomed tank & place an airstone directly under them to stop fungus forming.you do not need a filter for atleast 4 weeks.peppers are renouned for eating there own eggs,also if they hatch in your main tank your peppers & guppies will see the cory fry as food & eat them as there really tiny.

the eggs take about 5 days to hatch & the fry do not need feeding for about 3 days as they live off the yolk sack under there belly.you can then feed them a liquid fry food sparingly for a few days then move upgradualy to a powdered fry food.or i feed mine microworms (which they love),people also feed them baby brine shrimp but make sure theres no shells etc in with them.

you have to do daily water changes (i do 20%) & keep the bottom of the tank as clean as possible.i remove all uneaten food (except for microworms which can live for upto 24hrs in water) about half hour after feeding.if uneaten food is left in the tank for too long it could cause bad bacteria to form which will harm the fry.

wait to you see how tiny the fry are,there alot smaller than the guppy fry your use to!!oh yeah,one last thing...dont put the cory fry in with any other sort of fry as guppy fry etc will attack & eat cory fry.its happened to quite a few people on here before.

good luck with the eggs & let us know how it all goes.dont hesitate to ask any more quetions.

shaz

 

[vix]

Hi Flumpit, thanks for the quick reply.

Oh heck i only have two tanks, and the guppy fry are in one of them. Just had another look to see if i could remove some eggs and i can't find them! They were stuck to a plant, have they been eaten already? Gonna spend the whole day looking for blooming eggs i know i am

 

[flumpit2]

hi vix,
like i said,peppers eat there eggs like no ones business.as soon as mine have finished spawnig they all go round together eating them!!!

if they have eaten them dont worry cus they will soon spawn again for you!!!mine use to spawn every 4 weeks when i had big goldfish in the tank.now iv only got the peppers & white clouds they seem to be spawning almost every other day!also it will also give you the chance to get another tank & air stone etc ready for next time.

if you do find any eggs you could always put them in a big bowl or something similar to start off with.

goodluck with the egg hunting,lol!

shaz

 

[vix]

thanks lol i've found two so far

Any ideas where i should look lol its not the easiest tank to find these small things in. The only thing i have is a breeder box or a tupaware box lol

 

[flumpit2]

my peppers lay there eggs underneath ornaments,behind the filter,on plants,on the glass,behind the bubble wand.basicaly anywhere that they can get to,lol.they tend to place small clutches of eggs all over the tank.

when my peppers first laid eggs i was totaly unprepared so i placed the eggs in a floating breeders trap in the main tank.then i bought a small tank & transfered the breeders trap into the tank & lay it on its side (had to weight it down tho).was such a rigmarole cus you cant let the eggs be out of water so had to put a big bowl under it so it wouldnt drain & damage the eggs while moving it.

either the tupperware box or the breeders box will do to start with,exspecialy if you can only find 2 eggs,lol,bless ya!

shaz

 

[vix]

Ok thanks.

I still only have two eggs think the others have been scoffed nevermind. Is there a way to tell if the eggs are fertile? I hope so lol after all the trouble it took me to get them.

 

[vix]

Well many thanks for your help flumpit but after a little research, i don't think they are cory eggs . Sorry but at least I know what to do if I find some

 

[flumpit2]

hi vix,no probs bout the help,lol !!!so what eggs do you think they are if there not from the corys ?heres a not very clear pic of my cory eggs in a plastic breeders trap,(left of centre),hope this helps you to decide if they really are cory eggs or not.if there not cory eggs then im sure they will breed for you soon!!!!

 

[vix]

Hi flumpit, did a bit of reading on the net and i think the eggs are from the rainbows.