Lilacamy's Corydoras Log

[lilacamy931]

Oh no! The floating trap sunk, the overly powerful filter must have knocked it off course. Here is hoping my 11 week old will fair in the tank. Spotted him and have seen him eat, he snuggled up with the gold perus which are more his size and hopefully no one will decide to have a go. I would try netting him out but cant catch the adults at the best of times so here is fingers massively crossed

 

[Harlequins]

Whoops!! hopefully it'll be ok,mine was younger than that when they went into the main tank,i'm sure he'll fair well and join in with the others

 

[lilacamy931]

Thanks hon, checked on him twice and he seems fine, probably been free all day. Here is hoping all hard work not gone to waste x

 

[lilacamy931]

Todays update. Little frylet is contained again after saw him running scared from everything in the tank (poor thing!) but he is doing well.
My black schultzeis have arrived, took a while to acclimatise them but they seem very young and small and a little sluggish so hope that the post wasnt too damaging to them poor things. If these are different species from schultzei please let me know (though either way I love them, they are gorgeous )I have applied a second filter to the breeder tank to help increase flow etc and benefit the cories.

EDIT vid of the cories
http/www.flickr.com/photos/27863297@N03/4421953447/?processed=1&cb=1268234469285

 

[Harlequins]

Aww they're gorgeous I hope they're settling in ok

Fab vid too

Sooo jealous...

 

[lilacamy931]

Aw thanks babes here is a vid of them more active now (excuse the transformer epic battle noises going on in the background )

http/www.flickr.com/photos/27863297@N03/4422563701/

 

[mr130gallon]

i am looking for black aeneus, but i havent seen them at all,

Greetings. I have hundreds of juvies and will be listing them on AB, soon. Hopefully, you are in the US. - Frank

is south central canada (manitoba) close enough to get them shipped?


on topic: i hope the baby does ok in the big area of the tank, as well as the new cories. your bronzes look way bigger in the picture than mine are, i bought them at around an inch, and they are about 150% the size now, but they grow almost 2.5 inches dont they?

 

[Inchworm]

Hi lilacamy931

They are beautiful C. schultzeis. I just knew you would be happy with them.

The C. aeneus in the video are adorable too. They look so happy and healthy. Thanks for posting them.

 

[lilacamy931]

Thanks so much guys xx The bronze really were eyepopping when I got them with their size and health, they are getting friskier by the day and hope some eggs soon. The schultzei are absolutely gorgeous (even my parnter admires them!) Hope to have exciting updates soon.

With regards to the others:
Caudimaculatus - spawn on occasion but usually find empty egg sacs but good to know they keep going
Gold Perus - they are growing well and gaining more colour each day the lovelies
Pandas - the remainder have grown well and gained body weight so all is looking good, have at least one female which is good news
Habrosus - these fellows absolutely loved it when I opened the cube tank up and are even more active than the pygmies were, they especially have loved the addition of lamp eyes and galaxy rasbora
Pygmies - sadly the last one out of thirteen passed away this week, the tank has been taken apart and sterilised. It has been a shame with them perhaps in the future might try again but now happy with everyone I have.

You have heard this before but no more cories! Im am over the moon with everyone I have and love all my tanks to pieces

 

[lilacamy931]

Good news..

I have the airstone like this keeping them in the parental tank for now until hopefully hatchees

Though the net keeps ruching, any tips?

The airflow from the filter has been turned to the right of the net so not battered from all sides. Cant get the airstone directly underneath but hopefully near enough to get them hatching. They were quite hard to get off all bunched up like that and ended up peeling gently off in stripes.

I have a 5g with sand in and a small airdriven filter and heater but havent had much luck this way before and wondered if a breeder trap would be good for at least the first week of life? Very excited to be giving this a proper go now and hope these will grow just like my caudimaculatus fry

Housing for first stages can be large netted breeder trap, 5g, or floating as following, is the net suitable for hatching?

 

[Harlequins]

Fab news hun here's to lots of little frylets

If you've had success with the nets i would stick to it for the early days
I'm always wary of floating traps,either they sink or i feel they don't circulate the water has well has a net.

Has you know i have a fine net inside the breeder net with my youngest in and they're doing fab and has my filter flow goes along the top of the tank it filters through the nets.

You must do what you feel works for you

Now they've started...you might not stop them

 

[Inchworm]

Hi lilacamy931

Which ones spawned? Was it the bronze C. aeneus?

I don't use nets for my corys. I move them to a small container with an airstone to hatch and then move them into a 2 1/2 gallon tank with a sand substrate until they outgrow it. For the first week they are covered with a layer of filter squeezings and have only an airstone to gently circulate the water.

 

[lilacamy931]

Thanks so much for the help guys. Well one down side to the net is that if it is leaning on a trap with poor sucker pads it can end up in the tank and the eggs get blown around, I have half still so here is hoping they still develop (Im so accident prone I know!). I have hatched eggs in the net and also in a separate tank but the only question I have this time round if in tank is they arent at that adhesive stage so how best to position them to get aerated by bubbler?

Yep it was the bronze aeneus One of the female was very eggy and ready to lay. Just to ask on your way of hatching Inchworm the small container is it floating in the tank - how do you keep it going too cold? And does the airstone just sit in with the eggs?

Thanks both for all the help! This may be a lot of trial and error for me again as we have had accident number one on day one. I also have two kittens about this time round who are determined to play with nets and get in tanks so having to devise new things..

 

[lilacamy931]

Just a small update, cant tell if he grows so much in the pictures, but here is another latest pic of my growing baby, he really has come along in my eyes

 

[Harlequins]

He/she is adorable well done