Arfie
Fish Herder
This weekend I set up my new 4 foot tank and I added a bronze cory that I was given by a friend who has given up keeping fish, with it I added 2 albino cory's and a peppered cory that I already had.
Today, the bronze has laid LOADS of eggs, who's the most likely daddy? I'm guessing one of the albino's as I believe that they are bronze corys. I've had the bronze and peppered for 18 months and nothing, throw them all in a new tank and in under a week, they've spawned
Now I'm off to juggle my tanks around so they have a chance of surviving. The main tank has a 1000lph external, which is new and not mature yet and 2 internal fluval 2+ which are mature, so I don't fancy the chances of the fry making it with that level of filtration ready to suck them up.
The tank I will put them in will be mature, it's a Juwel Rekord 60 (60 litre) that has been running 18 months. It has mature media in the Juwel filter and a UGF and it's planted. There is very little chance that the Juwel filter will suck them in, but I suppose I could cover the inlet with some stocking if it's likely to be a problem
This is the first time I've had any spawning, so I'm really exited
I know they'd prefer sand, but as the UGF is mature and the tank is running now, i'd rather shove them in it as it is, and I need to get them out now as the cory's are already munching on the eggs
Any other advice?
Arfie
Today, the bronze has laid LOADS of eggs, who's the most likely daddy? I'm guessing one of the albino's as I believe that they are bronze corys. I've had the bronze and peppered for 18 months and nothing, throw them all in a new tank and in under a week, they've spawned
Now I'm off to juggle my tanks around so they have a chance of surviving. The main tank has a 1000lph external, which is new and not mature yet and 2 internal fluval 2+ which are mature, so I don't fancy the chances of the fry making it with that level of filtration ready to suck them up.
The tank I will put them in will be mature, it's a Juwel Rekord 60 (60 litre) that has been running 18 months. It has mature media in the Juwel filter and a UGF and it's planted. There is very little chance that the Juwel filter will suck them in, but I suppose I could cover the inlet with some stocking if it's likely to be a problem
This is the first time I've had any spawning, so I'm really exited
I know they'd prefer sand, but as the UGF is mature and the tank is running now, i'd rather shove them in it as it is, and I need to get them out now as the cory's are already munching on the eggs
Any other advice?
Arfie