More tanks Yee ha
I still have seven black cory fry, and the wee fry in the L199 tank is still about. It's big enough to develop markings, and I think it's a habrosus.
I'd leave them where they are. Can you elaborate a bit on the 'tank is doing weird things' part?I'm muddling through this fry thing, and OH and I are at odds. We only counted three this evening. No sign of the other two, and we are hoping they were just hiding during the count. OH is worried that the 25L tank they are living in is "doing weird things" because it's more or less uncycled, and while we borrowed sponges from an established tank when we set it up, he's concerned that a few tiny fry aren't sustaining the beneficial bacteria in said sponge. He thinks it might be better to move the three-week old fry to the L199 tank.
I'm not fully agreement with him, because it seems like everyone and their dog keeps fry in grow-out tanks so it must work, and I'm concerned that the stress of being caught and thrown into a 125L tank with a bunch of adult fish would be too much for the wee guys. Nothing in it would eat the fry, but they would have competition for food, and that tank gets blasted by three powerheads.
In other words, neither one of us actually knows what are are talking about. As I've debased myself plenty by asking naff questions on Corydoras World, I made him do it this time. But I figured I would put it to this forum.
The fry are being fed twice per day on baby brine shrimp and Tetra fry flakes. They get a daily 50% water change from one of the display tanks, and they have a thin layer of sand and an Indian Almond leaf.
If they moved into the 125, they would share it with four L199s, eight C. pygmaeus, three C. habrosus and two of their fry, two C. carlae, two bamboo shrimp, and two African fan shrimp.
What would you guys do?