Eggs!

[Kuhni]

They spawned again today, god I love these orange lasers 3 times in 5 days.

 

[Kuhni]

pictures of the fry, some of them are 4-5 days old the others 2 days old.

 

[Cory_Dad]

Damn!

Are they trying to provide enough fry to supply the whole Australian sub-continent?

Congratulations.

 

[jollysue]

I love the pics! Eggs with tails! Best I've seen I think!

 

[AlexAndCarmen]

Aaaaaw, they are too gorgeous. Great pics and look forward to them colouring up and looking like their parents.

Amazing.

 

[drewry]

great pics Kuhni

 

[jollysue]

hehe I see babies in my net. I hope these make it. I have had more losses this spring than I like to say.

 

[Kuhni]

Another small batch of eggs, 30ish. Presume they are from the orange lasers as the majority were laid in a big group on one of the java fern leaves as per usual.

I picked up an 8 outlet airpump, . Running 2 separate fry containers + BBS hatchery atm.
Picking up 3 adult Adolfoi this weekend as well as some microworm cultures.

 

[jollysue]

That's marvelous, Kuhni. My big producers this spring are the long fin pandas. I admit that I have stopped collecting the eggs and have added moss so they have a chance to survive on their own.

I have an egg here and there in the community tank with the green stripes. But the tank is on the floor on the bottom of a double tank stand, so I haven't done more than pick a few pearls that are easy to see. I am guessing that now that our Peru stripes are spawning they will be good producers.

I do have tiny fry, but I can't tell one from another yet. I am hoping I have both viable simulatus and green stripes.

 

[Kuhni]

Big spawn today, at least 2 females spawning (smaller one and one of the big mummas) they are still spawning as we speak.
over 120 eggs at present.

 

[Kuhni]

It is also interesting to note the individuality among the females.
One of the large females loves to lay her eggs at the front glass whereas the smallest female(4 apparent females, 3 large 1 a tad smaller) enjoys placing her eggs on the java fern leaves.

 

[jollysue]

Nearly all of mine are in the moss with an egg here and there on the glass. They also are not in smears and clumps like the C. aeneus.

Curious

I suppose it could be the simulatus and the caudimaculatus and not the simulatus and the Peru green stripe, but I don't think so. The simulatus eggs are very easy to distinguish. They are tiny, teeny and easily dropped and placed very particularly.

Almost every tank I have lots of moss in gets the majority of eggs in the moss. The Corys like to wiggle through the moss when placing their eggs. Even the peppers now use the moss as much as the glass.

I have not watched the ladies and the spawns.

 

[Kuhni]

with my orange lasers I find the opposite, a bare minimum are laid in the moss, most likely eggs which have fallen out of the fins.
Something I found comical, the return from my small canister was hanging in the tank with one of the suction cups not fixed to the glass, the corys decided it was a perfect place to lay some eggs around 12 on the suction cup

 

[jollysue]

Silly rabbits.

 

[Kuhni]

250+ eggs