Help! My cories spawned! What do I do??

[FishGuest5123]

I’m feeding mine Hikari First Bites, New Life Spectrum Fry Starter, and live baby brine shrimp. Waiting for the shrimp to get here. They always made my goldfish grow faster and color up nicely. Kept me posted on the worms.

 

[FishGuest5123]

I’m feeding mine Hikari First Bites, New Life Spectrum Fry Starter, and live baby brine shrimp. Waiting for the shrimp to get here. They always made my goldfish grow faster and color up nicely. Kept me posted on the worms.

 

[FishGuest5123]

Do you guys leave the light on at night for hatching fry or not? I’ve read pros and cons. I’ve never done it in the past.

 

[CassCats]

I agree. Goldfish seemed so much easier but I guess It was just automatic with me. These cories are so stinking cute! I’m surprised I only have about a dozen so far. I’ll be happy with Just a few healthy ones. Mine are so light compared to mbsq1d’s. I think may be albinos.

Paleatus fry are much darker when born, which is what @mbsqw1d has. Yours are aeneus, which tend to be a light tan colour with a little bit of speckling.

To compare:

Left is aeneus cory. Middle three are normal paleatus cory and top right there is an albino paleatus cory.

Do you guys leave the light on at night for hatching fry or not?

I dont even have light on during the day for mine, just room light lol itd be fine to turn the lights off at night.

 

[Essjay]

@AdoraBelle Dearheart I used instant porridge (not Readybrek but a supermarket own brand) This doesn't smell the same as porridge so I when I used microworms it didn't put me off Scott's Porage Oats.

Don't forget to start a new culture before the first one goes rancid

 

[Gypsum]

Oh yay! please please can we see pics of the adult cories? I love the black ones, want to get some when I can.
Also off topic, but what kind of horse do you have? I don't ride now (miss it) but was a horse mad kid and used to ride, so would love to see a photo of the horse too!

I doubt that it's too much water, technically my eggs were inside a net bag, inside 12.5 gallons of water, and some of those hatched. I lost a lot to fungus, but I also didn't have MB or alder cones or anything. Now I have alder cones, and MB arriving tomorrow, I'm hoping the cories will spawn again and more will make it this time.

The horse is a Shire-TBX, 27 years old but still in work.

So far, no fungus on the eggs. I'll try to get photos of the adults once the light goes on in the tank.

 

[FishGuest5123]

Paleatus fry are much darker when born, which is what @mbsqw1d has. Yours are aeneus, which tend to be a light tan colour with a little bit of speckling.

To compare:

Left is aeneus cory. Middle three are normal paleatus cory and top right there is an albino paleatus cory.
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I dont even have light on during the day for mine, just room light lol itd be fine to turn the lights off at night.

@NCaquatics Thanks for the info. You are a great resource!

 

[FishGuest5123]

I have little ones swimming all over the tank this morning! No idea how many. So cute to watch them zoom all over the place. They are fast! Gave a little Growth Starter this morning as some were scavenging like hungry.

 

[FishGuest5123]

Looks like about 20 wrigglers in my tank. How’s everybody else’s doing?

 

[FishGuest5123]

The horse is a Shire-TBX, 27 years old but still in work.

So far, no fungus on the eggs. I'll try to get photos of the adults once the light goes on in the tank.


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Absolutely beautiful horse. Gotta be gelding. Thick and muscular. I use to have stunning black QH mare. Kept her out of the sun and her black was like blue. Yours reminds me a lot of her but yours is thicker. Star was 15.5 hands. How big is he?

 

[Gypsum]

She's a mare. 16.1hh.

 

[mbsqw1d]

Looks like about 20 wrigglers in my tank. How’s everybody else’s doing?

I'm on 11 ish wrigglers in the breeder box/net, and 1 lone ranger somewhere in the main tank (or there could be more??). Theyre spawning every single morning lately and the female still looks full of eggs, starting to feel sorry for her!
I was throwing eggs into the breeder box/net, but now there's fry in there between 1-2 weeks old, I've setup a seperate cup for new eggs now. Wasn't expecting to become a corydoras breeder but that seems to be the case right now! The tank looks a bit of a mess with with airline, nets and cups floating around but its worth it

Are all your 20 from the same group of eggs? Or have they been spawning multiple times? I'm losing track of everyone now!

 

[FishGuest5123]

I'm on 11 ish wrigglers in the breeder box/net, and 1 lone ranger somewhere in the main tank (or there could be more??). Theyre spawning every single morning lately and the female still looks full of eggs, starting to feel sorry for her!
I was throwing eggs into the breeder box/net, but now there's fry in there between 1-2 weeks old, I've setup a seperate cup for new eggs now. Wasn't expecting to become a corydoras breeder but that seems to be the case right now! The tank looks a bit of a mess with with airline, nets and cups floating around but its worth it

Are all your 20 from the same group of eggs? Or have they been spawning multiple times? I'm losing track of everyone now!

Mine are 3 days of spawning. I still have roughly 15 eggs that should hatch by tomorrow but we shall see. I need to move my sponge filter because I see them go back there but don’t want to hurt anyone. What I have is what I have and I can tell more soon. I know what you mean about keeping up with everyone. It’s crazy! Lol.

 

[FishGuest5123]

She's a mare. 16.1hh.

Wow, very nice mare. Big girl! Enjoy her. I miss mine. She passed away at about 34 years. Found her laying in the pasture.

 

[Tez_20]

Well i've got one male albino and one male bronze and two female albino's and it's become a weekend ritual of breeding but lately they've been eating them after laying and love using my side filter and apparently they like to keep there population right by doing this but yesterday they was at it again.

20 eggs layed and 2 eaten but they're still there and the albino male as spent the day wearing himself out going up and fanning over them.