I have baby cories!

[julielynn47]

I have tried so many times to get eggs that would hatch. I have only ever managed 2 babies in all my years of having a fish tank. The other day one of my cories blew eggs all of the glass. I decided I will try again. I scraped them off the glass and put them in a bowl. Then after about a day I decided to put the bowl with all the stuck eggs on it into my 10 gallon tank. It has nothing is in except for some plants. So if they hatched they would be safe from other fishes. Day before yesterday I went and looked, yet again, and was shocked as I saw 2 babies swimming around in the bowl. Then I realized there were a lot of babies swimming around the bottom of the tank! I was so excited. I have attached a video, it is not a good video and the water looks awful, but I assure you it is crystal clear in real life. I have no idea why it looks murky unless the lense on my phones camera had film of some kind on it...actually that is probably why. I have to clean the lenses all the time LOL Anyway, just wanted to share the babies. They look like little white tadpoles LOL The video is sideways as well. I guess in my excitement should have cleaned the lenses and turned the phone LOL

 

[ghyti]

Feed them microworms if you have them. Try to get some if you don't..

 

[Innesfan]

What species? If you have any detritus from your other tanks--what the oldtimers called 'mulm'...decaying vegetable /plant matter etc---throw it in there.

 

[julielynn47]

I ordered some fry food powder this morning. There are tiny pieces of hornwort in the tank with them. I can look for some rotting leaves in my 75 and put it in the tank.
They are green cories. I have some albino cories, but I saw the fish releasing the eggs and it was a green cory

 

[Deanoliv]

Congrads!

 

[MrsShrimp]

That's awesome! I wish I had baby corys!

 

[CassCats]

Make sure to add a thin layer of sand--bare bottom tanks aren't great for baby cories, they have a higher mortality rate on them. Sand helps prevent contact with it and seems to boost their survival rate

Congrats! They grow fast as well!

 

[Back in the fold]

Very cool !

 

[simonas]

Ace news

Baby cories are so cool they very quickly become the cutest little copies of their parents. Easy enough to raise as well usually

Have fun

 

[MrsShrimp]

I wish I had some too, but my Bronze Corys are both female I think

 

[Panda_Monium]

Congratulations on your tiny new editions!! They are so fascinating to watch as they very quickly (even if it seems like it takes aaaages) morph into tiny versions of their parents. I have a batch of panda corydoras eggs in the process of hatching as I send this message - it's very exciting! And...Mumma Cory has just spawned again, so I'll remove those eggs from the spawning mop shortly so they have the best chance at survival. OH! Who am I kidding? Of course I couldn't wait! Lol! 11 new eggs! YAAAY! I have put them into a micro aquarium with an air tube bubbling gently, treated the water with a few drops of malachite based all round treatment to avoid any bacterial damage for the 1st 24 hrs, then I'll do daily partial water changes until they've hatched & can join their siblings in the nano tank with soft white sand...
Good luck with your little ones, Julielynn47.
I also hatch my own brine shrimp for the fry - they love it. They don't really attempt to eat for the first 2-4 days as they are busy absorbing the placenta, so I harvest the baby brine shrimp as soon as they hatch. It's important to rinse them well in clean salt or even tap water, as the hatching water is full of the waste from all brine hatchings, then put them into fresh salt water to keep them alive and healthy. I time them to be ready on the 2nd day, and offer only a tiny amount from late on the second day (Keeping the bbBSh in the fridge slows them down & keeps them alive. Feeding them a tiny bit of spirulina from the local wholefoods shop also helps them & adds nutritional value for the fry),and once the cory fry recognise that they are food, tiny feeds about 4xday works well to kick-start their development...I'm new to this as well, and definitely Not an expert. & I have made every rookie mistake with my pandas & kuhli loaches since I first got them in November last year. To give credit where it's due, I have this incredibly knowledgeable forum to thank for the fact that I have any of my corys & kuhlis left alive, let alone breeding!
All the very best to you & fishies!