JustKia
Fish Herder
Well, both the peppereds and albinos have been spawning on an off - usually half a dozen eggs here and half a dozen there - never very many and usually disappeared off the glass by the next day.
So, I'd given up trying to collect and hatch them and figured I'd wait a while until they matured more and started laying bigger amounts of eggs.
The tank is in our bedroom and I was watching them after the lights had just come on a couple of days ago and saw something out the corner of my eye. Got up to investigate what the little dark wriggly thing in my tank was...
BABY CORY!
Somehow, ONE egg managed to avoid being eaten, it hatched and the fry found "food" and is now around 20mm. No idea where it had been hiding between hatching and appearing suddenly, or what it had been eating.
THe tank is quite well planted up and I have several moss balls and a rock covered in java moss, which it seems to hide out in at the moment.
Obviously not knowing it was there I haven't used liquifry or any other fry food. I typically feed a tropical granule using both fine and coarse granules as I have varying sizes of fish and shrimp, and then frozen foods, spirulina wafers and other sinking wafers, so I guess it must have been good enough for this little fry.
How big will this little one need to get before s/he is brave enough to hang out with the "big" corys?
If it's a male then there's a 50/50 chance later down the line of him breeding with his mother - is that OK in the fish world? If it's female then I guess there's a high chance of her breeding with her father as I only have the one adult male peppered, so again is that acceptable in the fish world, or should I be looking to separate them out before the little one matures?
Incidentally, I had a couple of "tiddlers" hitch hike in with some shrimp a while back - they were only a few mm and transparent with big eyes. I left them in the tank on a if they survive then I get to find out what they are and if not...
These tiddlers not only survived but thrived and are now stunningly coloured Endlers, a little over an inch long - so there must be something in my tank that's good for raising fry LOL
Just happend to noticed some tiny shrimplets last night too - presumably cherry shrimp rather than amano's, although they look clear and there are a number of very berried Amano females right now.
So, I'd given up trying to collect and hatch them and figured I'd wait a while until they matured more and started laying bigger amounts of eggs.
The tank is in our bedroom and I was watching them after the lights had just come on a couple of days ago and saw something out the corner of my eye. Got up to investigate what the little dark wriggly thing in my tank was...
BABY CORY!
Somehow, ONE egg managed to avoid being eaten, it hatched and the fry found "food" and is now around 20mm. No idea where it had been hiding between hatching and appearing suddenly, or what it had been eating.
THe tank is quite well planted up and I have several moss balls and a rock covered in java moss, which it seems to hide out in at the moment.
Obviously not knowing it was there I haven't used liquifry or any other fry food. I typically feed a tropical granule using both fine and coarse granules as I have varying sizes of fish and shrimp, and then frozen foods, spirulina wafers and other sinking wafers, so I guess it must have been good enough for this little fry.
How big will this little one need to get before s/he is brave enough to hang out with the "big" corys?
If it's a male then there's a 50/50 chance later down the line of him breeding with his mother - is that OK in the fish world? If it's female then I guess there's a high chance of her breeding with her father as I only have the one adult male peppered, so again is that acceptable in the fish world, or should I be looking to separate them out before the little one matures?
Incidentally, I had a couple of "tiddlers" hitch hike in with some shrimp a while back - they were only a few mm and transparent with big eyes. I left them in the tank on a if they survive then I get to find out what they are and if not...
These tiddlers not only survived but thrived and are now stunningly coloured Endlers, a little over an inch long - so there must be something in my tank that's good for raising fry LOL
Just happend to noticed some tiny shrimplets last night too - presumably cherry shrimp rather than amano's, although they look clear and there are a number of very berried Amano females right now.
