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

[Gypsum]

Mine will definitely stay in the 10g tank until they're roughly the size of the pygmy corys. Then OH and I have a wee disagreement over the best thing to do. They won't be able to move in with their parents until they are big enough to be raphael-proof, so he wants to move them to the L199 tank when they're roughly the size of the pygmy corys and grow them out there. I'd be more incline to add some sand to the current 10g and keep them there. Not sure what makes the most sense or is best for the fish.

On that note, is there a point where I should be adding sand to their little tank?

 

[mbsqw1d]

Ive ordered a microworm culture and want to build them up a bit on the microworms, they still seem a bit too small to let them loose yet?

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

I'm planning to keep mine in the breeder box until they're about a month old, will have moved the adult cories out by then, and I'm hoping they'll big enough and strong enough to manage being loose in the 12.5 gallon by then, without being picked at by the guppy fry too much. Then move them in with the parents at about three months old, just going by stuff I've read by Ian Fuller.

 

[FishGuest5123]

Mine will definitely stay in the 10g tank until they're roughly the size of the pygmy corys. Then OH and I have a wee disagreement over the best thing to do. They won't be able to move in with their parents until they are big enough to be raphael-proof, so he wants to move them to the L199 tank when they're roughly the size of the pygmy corys and grow them out there. I'd be more incline to add some sand to the current 10g and keep them there. Not sure what makes the most sense or is best for the fish.
On that note, is there a point where I should be adding sand to their little tank?

I added just a small handful after one week per NCaquatics advice. I plan to grow mine out in the 10G that they are in. Then they are going in another tank away from their parents and I won’t breed them to avoid cross breeding. I have cherry barb fry in with them too.

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

On that note, is there a point where I should be adding sand to their little tank?

Yep, at about seven days old, take some sand from the parent tank, since that will have grown the beneficial bacteria that supposedly helps them, plus maybe some infusoria or other micro-organisms they can eat.

Ive ordered a microworm culture and want to build them up a bit on the microworms, they still seem a bit too small to let them loose yet?

They're so cute! I've seen Ian Fuller suggest waiting until they're three months old to put them in with the parents, mainly because it's harder for them to compete for food when they're so much smaller. @NCaquatics might have different experiences though?

Yours are so big! And cute. Is one of them albino?? Or did it just look much paler than the others as the light caught it when it swam across the top?

Yours are big enough that they could take some frozen food too I bet. I get some mixed packs of tropical frozen food, I use bloodworms and tubifex in the big tank for the larger fish and adult cories, but it also blocks of 'cyclops and rotifers' and 'daphnia and moina' which I use for guppy fry, and now for the cory fry. As long as it's small enough for their teeny mouths. Could probably powder and soak some of the adults pellets too now.

 

[FishGuest5123]

Ive ordered a microworm culture and want to build them up a bit on the microworms, they still seem a bit too small to let them loose yet?

Yep, at about seven days old, take some sand from the parent tank, since that will have grown the beneficial bacteria that supposedly helps them, plus maybe some infusoria or other micro-organisms they can eat.


They're so cute! I've seen Ian Fuller suggest waiting until they're three months old to put them in with the parents, mainly because it's harder for them to compete for food when they're so much smaller. @NCaquatics might have different experiences though?

Yours are so big! And cute. Is one of them albino?? Or did it just look much paler than the others as the light caught it when it swam across the top?

Yours are big enough that they could take some frozen food too I bet. I get some mixed packs of tropical frozen food, I use bloodworms and tubifex in the big tank for the larger fish and adult cories, but it also blocks of 'cyclops and rotifers' and 'daphnia and moina' which I use for guppy fry, and now for the cory fry. As long as it's small enough for their teeny mouths. Could probably powder and soak some of the adults pellets too now.

Their swimming to the top! Mine are still staying on bottom. So cute!

 

[mbsqw1d]

Yours are so big! And cute. Is one of them albino?? Or did it just look much paler than the others as the light caught it when it swam across the top?

Yeh I was thinking one looked quite pale.. there one or two adults that aren't as dark so could be from them, not sure about albino though, maybe!?

Yours are big enough that they could take some frozen food too I bet. I get some mixed packs of tropical frozen food, I use bloodworms and tubifex in the big tank for the larger fish and adult cories, but it also blocks of 'cyclops and rotifers' and 'daphnia and moina' which I use for guppy fry, and now for the cory fry. As long as it's small enough for their teeny mouths. Could probably powder and soak some of the adults pellets too now.

I do have frozen bloodworm and daphnia to hand. The daphnia seem quite big so perhaps I'd grind them a little bit with pestle and mortar before hand?

I added some newly hatched fry to the breeder net the other day so this whole cycle has started again! Its been really cool to look after these fry but I am starting to miss having the tank as a display tank... and some plant maintenance has been neglected of late..

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

Yeh I was thinking one looked quite pale.. there one or two adults that aren't as dark so could be from them, not sure about albino though, maybe!?


I do have frozen bloodworm and daphnia to hand. The daphnia seem quite big so perhaps I'd grind them a little bit with pestle and mortar before hand?

I added some newly hatched fry to the breeder net the other day so this whole cycle has started again! Its been really cool to look after these fry but I am starting to miss having the tank as a display tank... and some plant maintenance has been neglected of late..

Sounds like you need a little 10-15 gallon nursery tank!

 

[CassCats]

Usually once mine start getting their adult colouration AND are over 3/4" long ill add them to my adult tank provided theyre eating adult foods by that time too. But ill also spot feed the babies in the adult tank still as well.

 

[Gypsum]

I have 7 out of 11 or 12 black corys in the fry tank. I saw the one in the L199 tank today. It's hanging in there.

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

18 days old now, doing well! I've even dropped a shrimp pellet in there and left for a few hours, and they ate most of it!
Still have eight, haven't lost any for a week or so *touch wood* so really rooting for these guys to make it. One is slightly smaller than the others, but not by much and still seems healthy and strong, active, so fingers crossed.

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

Age progression!

October 10th

Some started hatching October 13th, this is the 14th when more hatched, newly hatched wrigglers!

20th October, six days old

Also October 20th, six days old and swimming!

Eight days old

27th Oct, 13 days old

31st Oct, 18 days old

I can't get over how fast they go from this;

To this, in just 18 days!

 

[Koglin]

Cant get enough of age progression photos, growing like chia pets!

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

Cant get enough of age progression photos, growing like chia pets!

I want to keep them all! What am I gonna do with 14 cories?! I dunno yet, but I love them and couldn't part with them. I raised these babies!

 

[Ch4rlie]

I want to keep them all! What am I gonna do with 14 cories?! I dunno yet, but I love them and couldn't part with them. I raised these babies!

Get a bigger tank !