Hehe! I've Already Got Long Fin Albino Pepper Fry!

[jollysue]

When did I get these guys? They were teeny tiny. They have spawned, and I saved some eggs and plunked them in the net with some other pepper eggs and some aeneus eggs and WaaLaa!

Baby Long Fin Peppers!

They look like little white spiders scampering across the net. I'll work on some pics soon of my net brood.



And they just spawned again. Walked in and the little lady was laying stunned against the heater. HA!

 

[Lynz781]

I don't understand. You bought long finned cories and the spawned?

 

[jollysue]

Yes in early October the end of September, I bought some Long Fin Albino C. paleatus on Aquabid. After a harrowing journey from Hawaii they reached me as little teeny babies themselves. Now barely two months later I have fry from those babies.

This is the original thread here, and this is them when I got them

That brown circle is a softened Hikari tab, about the size of a dime.

I think I saw two fry from their spawn scampering around. I see one I believe dead. In the morning I will try to gather some eggs into a new fry net from yesterday's spawn. It is good size for the little darlins. The parents are still pretty small themselves for what I suppose will be their size at maturity.

 

[AlexAndCarmen]

Congrats JollySue

That is just amazing news. I am very happy for you. They must be very strange looking fry. Cory babies aren't the prettiest babies as it is, and with all those long fins. Will be amazing to watch them develop and grow. Congrats. Hope it all works out.

 

[jollysue]

Thanks, as I said I can already see one dead one and only maybe two that hatched from the few eggs I managed to harvest last week. I was really caught by surprise that they spawned so soon and I just wanted to see if I could get one or two since I had the net up and running with the regular pepper eggs.

I hope to make a real effort with this spawn to harvest some Thursday after work. I have to make a black worm pickup, and then, after having worked all night and spending the morning on that blackworm errand, I hope I have enough left in me to put together the net and learn how to get the eggs into it without losing them all. As you know pepper eggs are a little difficult. I hope I can put the net under the major clutch and scrape them off. I was using a knife, but I have changed to an ancient metal cooking spatula that is worn paper thin.

I can not really see the fry in any detail yet. I need new glasses; they are in a net in a large community tank, so I am peering through thick tank glass, water, a dirty net, and some floating plant material, and stuff, to see these little white creatures scamper when I shake the net. I am really surprised that any of the eggs were viable after the crude methods I used to scrape them off and into the net, while I was trying to run off to work or to bed.

I have a new tank to set up for this cory group and will turn the twenty long into a spawning tank/fry tank I think. The new one is only 36" long, but it is 40 usg.

I am thinking that I might look up the breeder that Inchworm recommended to get a second stock to mix in and mix it up. I really made out on this group as the shipping was refunded over the FedEx mess up.

The pepper spawn is so dramatic. The ladies just go into a totally stunned rapture during the spawn--frozen in mid movement.

I am rather pleased with myself and these babies. They will make a nice offering to my lps.

 

[Lynz781]

Congrats, I see what you mean by the spidery look. Really odd looking but cute all the same!

 

[jollysue]

Hehe!

I have multiple long fin albino peppers in the second net in the albino tank! They are from the second spawn of my little LFA (long fin albino) peppers. There are eggs from the third spawn as well in there. She spawned a little spawn the again. I did not save any from that one. The boys are being regular little pests, nuzzling her all the time. The peppers are still so small and yet they are beginning to lay small clutches regularly. I still don't have the grow out or the new tank set up. I have to do some shuffling, and I will need time and space to get it done. I do have to get the grow out going though. My regular pepper fry are soon outgrowing the net.

Still no new pics though. Too many projects/Too little time.