Please Make Them Stop

[frapadoodle]

Okay a little background.
After a disaster with a power outage, I had ruptured pipes and frozen fish.
Well somehow I had a baby cory survive in the 4footer. Was building a cabinet for the tank, after house got fixed. But an accident with a saw has that on hold. Ten stitches, but still have ten fingers.
Anyway got a bronze and albino cory to keep the baby company. Didn't want a full shoal til the tank is moved. Well from two fish two spawns of 50+ eggs in a week.
I am glad they are fat and happy, but I don't want to have to catch a bunch of wrigglers.

 

[techen]

Overall corys shouldn't be kept unless you have 6+. If you don't want the babies leave them or remove them. Most of them will die anyway or both may be females and will just be empty eggs.

 

[frapadoodle]

I know they should be in numbers of 6 or more.
And no, they are not both females. Having bred corys before I got lucky and got a male and a female.
I also find it rich to be told how many cory I should have by someone who lists having 5!

 

[Questions?]

what wrong with having 5? they are schooling fish and 5 is a good number, its better than having 2

 

[greenmumma141]

plus, he could have just lost a cory, and that would have been a very insensitive comment.  
 
If your cories are spawning, there's not much you can do to stop it besides seperating them. Maybe get a couple fish to eat the eggs? Good to hear you still have your fingers

 

[frapadoodle]

Insensitive? Oh grow up.
A thousand plus posts does not an expert make.
And I am so sorry that all humor has left this site.

 

[Tuxyu3]

Calm down guys, lets not end up saying something we'll regret.
 
I generally wouldn't worry about it, i have a group of 6 and after a couple of spawns i have only had 1 fry survive and he was saved by the external filter, with only 2 of them i doubt all of the egg are even getting fertilised. If you want to be sure then you could crush the eggs or if there are fish in the tank just remove them from the glass and they should be taken care of.

 

[Paradise3]

Insensitive? Oh grow up.
A thousand plus posts does not an expert make.
And I am so sorry that all humor has left this site.

 
Erm, excuse me... Humor has not left the site, what you said could have been very insensitive. How do you know Techen hasn't lost one from a group of 6? Also, Cory's may not be hard to sex but males can look like females and females like males. So you could actually have both females and I know from experience that females will lay eggs without males present. I have also bred cory's so don't tell me I don't know how to sex them, I do. I did however have a very confusing male. He looked feminine in every way possible and turned out to be male. Let's all calm down, you really shouldn't have responded the way you did and I think we should leave it at that. This is said in the calmest, nicest of ways.

 

[DreamertK]

You can send some of the babies to me. Congratz on the spawning, they must love you! And get well soon, that must have been some horrific experience.
 
You can put the female in a breeder net or physically divide the tank so that the eggs can't be fertilized. Feeding less worms and more flake? Turn up the heater a degree or so?

 

[TallTree01]

I had to read this topic 4 times before i saw that frapadoodle posted first then techen posted then frapadoodle posted again ( thought it was a different person LOL ). Humor hasn't left this site see watch:
2 muffins are in an oven:
Muffin 1: wow, are you hot?
Muffin 2: OMG, a talking muffin!
Okay, i stand corrected.
Moving on....
If everything was ideal we would all have 1000 gallon plus tanks and have groups of 100 + cories like they would in south America.
I'd say a group of 5 would suffice for cories. I agree it could be viewed as insensitive but it wouldn't really offend me too bad if I was techen. I think we should all calm down and have a beer.

 

[TallTree01]

Is it just me or do you really love the word ' frapadoodle '?

 

[DreamertK]

I had to read this topic 4 times before i saw that frapadoodle posted first then techen posted then frapadoodle posted again ( thought it was a different person LOL ). Humor hasn't left this site see watch:
2 muffins are in an oven:
Muffin 1: wow, are you hot?
Muffin 2: OMG, a talking muffin!
Okay, i stand corrected.
Moving on....
If everything was ideal we would all have 1000 gallon plus tanks and have groups of 100 + cories like they would in south America.
I'd say a group of 5 would suffice for cories. I agree it could be viewed as insensitive but it wouldn't really offend me too bad if I was techen. I think we should all calm down and have a beer.

  Lets go take over south america and raise the native cory's!!

 

[frapadoodle]

No worries on my end.
I agree one cannot be offended unless they choose to be.
Perhaps too many assumptions are being made. And sarchasm doesn't translate well into print.
Corys can be sexed by size and shape from above, as well as shape of the pelvic fins, the way they sit on the substrate, and best of all the T formation while breeding.
The plan was to only have the low number of cory for a week at most, but one handed, that got delayed longer. Yes the numbers will be upped to 8-10.
Frapadoodle was my dog, not the one in my avatar, who suicided by running into traffic.
Anyway, had a problem with advice given elsewhere on this forum.
And the title was meant to be a joke.

 

[DrRob]

OK, well done folks at getting back on thread. I'm not 100% sure I understand what happened above and I'm pretty sure I don't want anyone trying to explain it to me.
 
I'm somewhat jealous. I've kept cories for years, with both genders represented, and have never seen eggs or breeding behaviour from any of them. Might be because I keep them with too many things that will eat the results though.
 
Are you planning to grow the eggs/fry on to up the numbers or is the plan to supplement the shoal still and then deal with the eggs separately? I'm always interested in the ratio of survivors you get from pairs with different phenotypes.
 
Oh, and I hope the hand gets better soon.

 

[Wildbetta]

If you don't want the numbers getting out of hand, then just leave the eggs.  Cories will eat the eggs and the fry if any of the eggs somehow reach the point of hatching.  Of course I am sure that there will be a very few that might survive to the point of not getting eaten but it would be 10% or so. 
 
I notice it says that you are in Bogart, Georgia--That in the U.S.?  I hate to assume something especially on a site that has so many members from other countries.  LOL