Well, I now know my corys can spawn....

[enchanted]

I had noticed some eggs on the glass of my 55 Gallon, but figured they were snails eggs.... Even though I had only seen 2 snails total i the tank and I killed one of those.

Well, this morning I wake up, look at the tank, and all is fine, but the bronze corys were going nuts swimming all over the tank at about mid-level. I hadn't looked in about an hour and just look over to discover 2 sets of eggs on the glass.

I just wish they would have waited..... I wanted to put them in a seperate tank to do that as I have no clue how to move the eggs.

 

[Inchworm]

Hi ddreams

Congratulations even though this spawn might not have turned out the way you hoped it would. You know now that your cory are mature and they will soon spawn again.

At some time over the next few days, why not set up a spawning tank and move them to it. You can then begin feeding live or frozen blackworms, bloodworms or tubifex worms to condition them. In two to 3 weeks they will have recovered from this round and be ready to spawn again. Then you will have all conditions right and you will have the best possible chance to raise the fry successfully.

Was this spawning totally spontaneous or have you recently done a big water change or had the temperature drop for some reason?

 

[enchanted]

Spontaneous...

I only do 15 Gallon Changes on my 55 Gallon. I haven't done one in three days. Since I spent three days messing with my heater I haven't even had a .2 degrees temp fluctuatio.

I already have the spawning tank and a heater for it. I'm just waiting for more money so I can get a sponge filter.

 

[lizard]

You can remove the eggs from the glass and put them in a separate tank. That's what I did with mine when my Corys unexpectedly spawned. I now have cute little Cory fry

Pamela
aka Married Lizard

 

[enchanted]

How did you remove the eggs?

 

[lizard]

I used my finger. I've heard of other people carefully removing them with a razor blade. They're sticky, so that makes removing 'em easier. I think I read somewhere that you shouldn't let them have contact with air, but I think a couple of mine did. Adding some methylene blue to the water the eggs are in is a good idea to help prevent fungus. I didn't have any methylene blue though, and couldn't find any. Keep an airstone in the tank that has the eggs in 'em, and then the fry. My fry hatched in three or four days - I think the amount of time it takes for them to hatch depends on how warm they are. Search through the Breeding Forum or the Catfish Forum for more information on breeding Corys and raising fry. You could always PM Inchworm, as she knows quite a lot about raising Cory fry Feel free to PM me, as well. I'm not nearly as knowledgable as Inch, nor do I have near the amount of experience that she does, but I can tell you what I did and am doing with my fry

Good luck

Pamela
aka Married Lizard

 

[enchanted]

I'm cleaning the 10 Gallon now. I hope a bubble wand will be okay. That is what is going in it. Worried about the heater though.

 

[lizard]

A bubble wand is more or less like a big air stone, so it should be fine Good luck!

Pamela
aka Married Lizard

 

[enchanted]

Well, it's cleaned and setup and the few eggs are moved (about 10-15 total).

I used a piece of glass and a bowl (so they didn't touch air).

We will see what transpires.

 

[enchanted]

If any of these do hatch what do I feed them.

 

[lizard]

For the first 24 or 48 hours (I forget which) they get nutrition from their yolk sacs. To start with, I fed mine Hikari First Bites. Liquifry will work, too. Now that they're getting a little bigger, I'm crushing up Tetra Variety Wafers and Tropical Granules (both what I feed my grown-up fish) for them, too. I occasionally put a few freeze-dried tubifix worms in there, too.

Good luck Keep us updated!

Pamela
aka Married Lizard

 

[Inchworm]

Hi ddreams

I'm glad to hear that you saved some of their eggs. Good luck with them.

You will also be happy to know that if your corys spawn again within the next few weeks, you can raise the two batches of fry together.



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Hi lizard

I'm happy to learn that your fry are doing well.

 

[lizard]

Hi lizard

I'm happy to learn that your fry are doing well.

Hi back atcha, Inchworm! <waves>

Yep, fry are doing well I sorta measured 'em yesterday and I think they were one or one and a half centimeters long (for some reason I can't remember exactly...). They're so cute

How's it going with the eggs, ddreams? Are they a light orangey color? My Pepper Cory eggs were. The ones with fungus turn white and should be removed. When the eggs get close to hatching, you can see the little fry in 'em - it's really neat They're not very cute when they first hatch (at least I don't think so), but they get cute before too long

Pamela
aka Married Lizard

 

[Inchworm]

You are in good hands with lizard, ddreams!

If you are lucky, you will see the cutest thing of all. IMHO, that is when they are just starting to hatch and their heads are still in the eggs, but their tails are out. Sometimes it seems like the little fellows have to work so hard just to get born.

 

[enchanted]

Well, I may have waited to long to remove these from the main tank. Some of them look almost grayish/black.

But here in about two weeks I will move the corys to the 29G and try to get them to spawn there.