We've Got Fry

[smithrc]

Hi all...

I posted ages ago about unidentified fry in one of our tanks - ended up ID'd as very very very young pygmy cory... Unfortunatly the fry we saw was never seen again.

This morning I was checking our starlight fry in our Zeb tank and I saw something flitting about agaist the glass underneth the trap.. too big to be the BN fry that escaped (and swimming not sticking) but way too small to be a shrimp or one of the 2 remaining pygmys in the tank...

Flicked the light on to see a 10mm tiny but perfectly formed pygmy

It looks like the 2 we had left have spawned un-noticed and the little bugger made it

I didn't manage to get a pic, as soon as i came back with the camera - it had legged it and havent seen it since.
But I'll have one as soon as I can (I'll be there for hours tonight )

 

[Barracuda518]

Hi all...

I posted ages ago about unidentified fry in one of our tanks - ended up ID'd as very very very young pygmy cory... Unfortunatly the fry we saw was never seen again.

This morning I was checking our starlight fry in our Zeb tank and I saw something flitting about agaist the glass underneth the trap.. too big to be the BN fry that escaped (and swimming not sticking) but way too small to be a shrimp or one of the 2 remaining pygmys in the tank...

Flicked the light on to see a 10mm tiny but perfectly formed pygmy

It looks like the 2 we had left have spawned un-noticed and the little bugger made it

I didn't manage to get a pic, as soon as i came back with the camera - it had legged it and havent seen it since.
But I'll have one as soon as I can (I'll be there for hours tonight )

Congratulations. Ive been after some C. Pygmaeus for a long time

 

[Kuhni]

Great, my trili laid more eggs tonite, prolly about 8-10 But I could only find about 5.

 

[madattiver]

congrats on the pygmy spawn.. you will notice that they are one of the faster developing fry out of the corydoras and will spawn regularily without any trigger required.

 

[ExoticStripes]

Congratulations smithrc hurry up and get some pics so we can see the little beauties.

 

[smithrc]

Congratulations smithrc hurry up and get some pics so we can see the little beauties.

spent ages looking tonight... but I was rewarded

We found 2 small pygmys

Here they are (they look like normal pygmys - only really small
There are MT snails for size comparison... and the orange lumps are bits of tetra prima (small granula food)

 

[smithrc]

quite odd but... now we know they are in there - they have been out and about loads

got up this morning and checked the starlight BN fry... and look what I found

Not sure how it got in the breeding trap ?? but I decided to let them all out into the main tank rather than try and catch the little blighter

 

[020292]

Thats so cool! Can you tell me about how you went about breeding your cories becuase i am interested in breeding my cories!

Thanks!

 

[ExoticStripes]

That is sooooo cute I I mean really cool don't know what happened there for a sec

 

[smithrc]

I havent been trying to breed them

They are in the tank with our zebra plecs so the water is soft (due to RO and tap water mix) and is kept very clean... thats about it really

 

[AlexAndCarmen]

They are really cute. Congrats on the spawns. Hopefully the parents will spawn again and give you loads of babies. Those eggs must be teeny weeny.

 

[jollysue]

So cute, absolutely adorable!

 

[Inchworm]

Hi smithrc

Congratulations!

They are soooooo cute!

 

[Graeme Edwards]

Ive got 5, 2 very round females and 3 slim males!!

Spawning today

 

[smithrc]

Ive got 5, 2 very round females and 3 slim males!!

Spawning today

did you get any pics?

I've heard they do it hovering above the floor never seen ours doing it