Good Idea To Use Antifungal In Tank For Cory Eggs?

[jollysue]

Mmmm! Chicago syle pizza!

As I understand it different species of Cory typically take different periods of time to hatch. I don't count. I harvest the eggs and throw them in a net. After awhile--about a week actually--I start dropping food in. Sometimes not until I see them free swimming.

What are green Corys? I thought you kept sterbai?

 

[ICEEGRL]

It is the big version of the bronze that has the green tint...
That is the easiest way for me to describe them.
Sue... I think he meant he adds the meds on day 0 and starts water changes on day 3. (not meds and water changes on day 3)
I love the idea of a tank being hung inside the main tank... I am now trying to figure out how to keep it in place... clothes pins and tape don't work. It just falls...
If you could get it to stay in place... it would allow you to add the meds for the eggs without messing with the main tank water. I like that idea. I found that small containers with air stones get tipped over in my tanks...

 

[jollysue]

Are we talking about the Brochis splendens?

I will see what I can find out about the ways to set it up.

 

[Tolak]

They're green aeneus, the same as bronze, with a green tint stripe down the sides. ICEEGRL has it right, I add meds one time, then they are removed by water changes.

Spring clamps will hold a small tank inside a large on, I have over a dozen assorted sizes kicking around the fishroom; http/www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00002244Z

Fish safe plastic, they hold everything from wires & tubing out of the way to garden hoses when doing water changes. I usually get them from the hardware store bargain bin.

 

[Coryman]

Removed under protest

Ian

 

[Tolak]

TY Ian! The alder cones are a very interesting idea, what sort of water change schedule do you keep with the eggs & cones? I'll have to look into geting some of these, not just for the corys, but for angels, as they are what most of my breeding activities involve. I wonder if this is similar to the almond leaves betta keepers & breeders use.

***Edit to add***


Is this the sort of things you are talking about with the alder?
http/www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/sy...heet.cfm?ID=157

 

[jollysue]

another Ian post on this

Actually I asked about the IAL (Indian Almond Leaf) too but haven't gotten a response. I am pretty sure I have seen the cones online. This above post is more specific.

Frank Falcone has used them, although I think he is not now.

Hopefully Ian will drop back by.

 

[Cory_Dad]

Freshly produces eggs are delicate and handling them can and often will damage them making them non viable. Eggs on leaves, or in moss are easy, just snip off the leaf or remove the moss and always place them in a container with water from the spawning tank.

I concur with leaving the eggs on the leaves. With my first batch most of the eggs on the leaves I snipped off hatched whereas none of the eggs I scraped off the glass hatched. That is what caused me to start this thread.

As of earlier today, I had 6 fry left. They are living in my 10 gal. tank, bare bottom except for about 25 - 30 1/2" rounded gravel which they hide amongst, and a bunch of combomba and some java moss (added yesterday). I have a heater, an air stone, a sponge filter and just added an aqua clear 20 outside filter with a sponge from an aqua clear 30 stuck onto the intake pipe (kind of an outside sponge filter). I feed em pre-soaked hikari first bites twice a day freshly hatched brine shrimp every once and a while (not sure they have eaten any yet). The snails do a great job of cleaning up the excess (but poop all over the place). I do a 20% water change each day by siphoning out the water (and the poop) with an air-line hose.

<phew>

And I thought fish keeping would be a relaxing hobby...