Trying To Breed My Cories

[micknat]

akasha i got more fish today hehe. i asked for one diamond neon and six cherry barbs, guy couldnt count coz i got two diamond neons and eight cherry barbs and i think of the females is carrying eggs

 

[Akasha72]

Hope you get some wrigglers too micknat

 

[micknat]

so do i fingers crossed

 

[micknat]

have the other eggs hatched now?

 

[Akasha72]

just checked and as far as I can see there's just 3 left to hatch. They're okay as they're still a darker colour. They'd hatch when they are ready I guess. Probably sometime in the night or tomorrow

 

[FishFanatic04]

pssst...My bolivians just spawned. I'm over the moon

I get the feelings now. Whew.

 

[Akasha72]

pssst...My bolivians just spawned. I'm over the moon

I get the feelings now. Whew.

Ooh congrats. Hope you get as lucky as I did yesterday and get to watch them hatch

Right, must go and check on my new arrivals and see if they are okay. Water change in a bit for them. I think (from the quick glance earlier) that there's just one egg left to hatch

 

[Akasha72]

Here They Are

Christened The Nine for now. It looks like there's still one egg, can't see the other - could they have eaten it?

 

[coldcazzie]

Been away since the 7th, so I've just caught up.

Love the videos and pictures! Congrats on the new babies

 

[Akasha72]

thanks Caz, nice holiday I hope

There's still 9 and no sign of the other 2 eggs. I can only assume they've eaten them. It's not like 2 cory eggs can just vanish

So, I guess out of 17 eggs I've got 9 babies. Is 50% good or bad? Is there something I could've done to make the rest survive? It would be good to know for future reference and for others trying to get cory babies too.

I've added some java moss to their little pot now and I'll be changing their water again tonight. I'm using water from the fry tank to change it as it's better water (PH7, no ammonia or nitrite) than the main tank at present (PH6 still getting low ammonia readings now and then)

I just hope I can get them to survive this time.


On a side note:
I mentioned I'd lost a female platy yesterday (had to euthanise her ) When I found her she had what looked like a prolapse. She had a huge mass hanging out of her and she was hiding in the plants. I didn't think it was fair to let her stay that way so decided to put her to sleep. When I was doing my main tank water change this morning I found 5 newly born fry - I'm guessing they were hers and that could've been the reason for the prolapse?
So I now have 9 newly hatched cory babies and 4 newly born orphaned platy fry. Number 5 refused to let me catch it either with net, jug or turkey baster. I decided any fry that clever had a good chance of surviving in the main tank so it's still in there!!

I'm going to have to net out the bigger fry this week and get them to the lfs. Growing cories need a home larger than a cut down juice bottle lol

 

[FishFanatic04]

Awww COngrats on the platy fry, thats a nice gift after losing your girl!

 

[micknat]

awww sorry to hear about your platy,at least the babies are doing ok

 

[Akasha72]

I have no doubt that there would've been more than 5 - the other's could be hiding in my filter box or could've been eaten, I have no idea.

It is nice that she left me a gift but sadly I won't be able to keep them as I wouldn't want them to breed with their father and have deformed fry that I have to put to sleep aswell.

The joys of breeding fish I suppose.

Anyway, it's time I had something different from platies. I havn't decided what yet as I'm still battling with the water since the substrate change over. Once that sorts itself out I'll make a decision on what to have. I might go with dwarf cichlids - bit more challenging

 

[FishFanatic04]

They are great! I love my rams as much as my cories.

 

[micknat]

endlers are pretty cool i think