cories?? - Page 2

Z Man · 06-08-2005, 10:57 AM

Just one pair of cories WILL breed. The reason for the extra males is because one male may not have enough 'milt' (sperm) to fertilize all the eggs and you will not have 100% viable eggs.

awesome kid · 06-11-2005, 11:49 AM

some eggs will get fungi on them and turn white
i would remove those ones
GOOD LUCK!

Lydia · 06-11-2005, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by awesome kid

GOOD LUCK!

thanks i think im going to need it

awesome kid · 06-11-2005, 09:05 PM

you are most certainly welcome, im trying to start breeding some CORYDORAS MELANOTAENIA myself

Lydia · 06-11-2005, 09:16 PM

ah.....good luck!!!!! i want to know how it goes!!

Lydia · 06-12-2005, 12:01 PM

well i have cory eggs now!!! they laid some on the wall of the tank....some look almost clear and the others are tannish looking....but the ones that look clear im wondering if that is just where my other fish got hungry and ate them off the glass leaving just the gluelike stuff that stuck them to the side of the tank? also what should i feed them if they do hatch? should i put them in the breeder net with my platy fry? i cant scrape them off the glass without harming them, can i? i put my breeder net in front of the larger clutch so that my fish cant eat them but the smaller clutch is unprotected...any ideas how to protect them? TIA for replys!!!!

awesome kid · 06-12-2005, 03:58 PM

ill let you know how mine goes, but i havent got them spawning yet. right now they're in a community tank with some tetras which im trying to pawn off to pet stores, its not going great.

the smaller clutch is unprotected...any ideas how to protect them

you might be able to rig a breeder net using some of the material that most fish nets are made of, just an idea.
heres a link to another thread that has that topic
http://www.fishforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3233

**TheOldSalt** · 06-12-2005, 06:27 PM

Congrats on the cory eggs!

You probably can't scrape them without damage. It can be done, but... yikes.
If your platy fry are still very small, then yes, you can keep them together. The cories will probably demand better food than the platies, though, such as microworms, but they might eat liquid fry food or egg yolk until you can get them other stuff. Luckily it doesn't take very long at all for the fry to start looking like corys, and at that point they become a little bit easier to feed. If you have a pond nearby, scrape the plants for aufwuchs, the tiny microorganisms growing all over them. These make excellent food for tiny fish fry, and are the best part of "greenwater." The resulting stuff will be a green soup, which you can then pour over the fry to feed. If you turn off the water pumps a few minutes before feeding, the greenwater will stay in the breeder net for several minutes while the fry feed, and then you can restart the pumps. Growth will be rapid if you feed them like this a few times per day for about 10 days, and then they should be willing to eat all sorts of other, much easier, stuff.

Lydia · 06-13-2005, 07:53 AM

thanks!

ok so i wont try scraping them off...there is only one clutch unprotected anyways...there are three clutches grouped together that i put the breeder net in front of so the only fish that can and will get to them is my oto and he doesnt bother them
my platy fry are less than 1/2 and inch long...how do i get/hatch microworms? and as for egg yolk, do i just put a very small amount in the breeder net and turn off the filter/pump for a little? im not sure if there is a pond anywhere around here but i will look...and in how many days should they hatch? just so i know how long i have until i have to have food for them....thank you very much for the replys and suggestions!

**TheOldSalt** · 06-13-2005, 12:39 PM

The eggs typically hatch in 4-6 days.
The egg yolk you can push through a fine mesh strainer to turn it into a fine paste, or you can just get some Liquifry type liquid fry food from the store.
The greenwater should be easy to find.
Foods like microworms you can get from various places which sell them in culturing kits or in bulk. You can find ads aplenty for these places in the backs of fish magazines, or you can search online. One online place I know is called "The Bug Farm." I lost the URL, but a gogle search should find it pretty quickly. they have all sorts of live foods and other stuff.

Lydia · 06-14-2005, 06:40 AM

ok thanks very much!

awesome kid · 06-16-2005, 06:07 PM

when can i feed fry BBS?

grewalsb · 06-19-2005, 07:28 PM

Does anyone have any advise on how to keep my eggs without them getting eaten? My pleco and paradise fish have already started munching down on some of the eggs and I'm not sure if I want to risk moving the eggs as I'm very new to this. This will be my first batch of eggs!!!! I didn't even know they were cory eggs until I happened to notice one of my cory's laying them. And yes, you can breed just two cories in a community tank. I have three but one is a panda cory while the other two are albino and peppered C. aneois (sp??). Do you think just putting a net over the eggs might help? Any advise would be oh so helpful! Thanks!!!