Wee cory frylings

[Eggheadfish]

I started jacking other people's threads with my stuff, so I'm starting my own. Sorry!
I originally had around 80 eggs, rolled them from the glass into a breeder under the filter outflow. Had 10 eggs hatch, 7 fry still alive 8 days later. I'm feeding them Hikari first bites and keeping my fingers crossed.
This morning, I woke up to my next batch of ~60 eggs, I have 38 new fry!
Don't mind the weird setup or the masses of bubbles under the breeders.
Can anyone tell what species the older ones are yet?? I think either bronze or trilineatus. Can't tell. On the offchance that they're my rabauti, I will dance very many happy dances.

 

[brennae]

Great pics!!

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[Eggheadfish]

Thanks Bren! I would love to see some of yours!

 

[brennae]

Hopefully you can see them. Mine are younger and clear so it was hard to take their picture.

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[Eggheadfish]

Can I just say trying to siphon leftover first bites out of a breeder box with almost fifty fry is like the hardest game of Operation ever.

 

[Eggheadfish]

Back with more fry pics. The younger ones are fattening up pretty nicely!

 

[Eggheadfish]

Can anyone tell me when I can put different age/size fry together? My batches are only eight days apart is there really an issue? I'm feeding in excess and doing water changes constantly.

 

[Cold Canadian]

I would think they would be good together, it's only 8 days.


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[Fishobsessed7]

I would think they would be good together, it's only 8 days.


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+1


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[Eggheadfish]

I have 200 more eggs today. These cories are out of control. The male bronze are chasing other males, females, the rabauti, even my tetras!

 

[brennae]

Whoa. Are you saving all of them?

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[Eggheadfish]

Yes but I don't know why! I guess now that I know I can do it I can't help but "save" them. Trying to keep up with the maintenance on top of everything else I have going on is nuts.
To sell/trade them to my LFS I have to have a minimum of fifty plus I'm giving some away so I figure after this bunch that should give me enough to do that, then I'll probably take a break. I plan to give my adult bronze to the LFS too so I can bump the number of the other species I have. I absolutely love my rabauti and bandits and need some more of those guys.
I also need store credit for my empty tank to be filled

 

[brennae]

Good plan
I need to contact my LFS and see what their policy is.

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[Fishobsessed7]

Sadly, my LFS doesn't take in fish from the public, they also closed recently


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[Eggheadfish]

My local LFS I usually buy from won't either. I have to drive an hour away for the one that will. I've had two places I really liked close in the last year. It's pretty sad

 

[Fishobsessed7]

Yeah, it sucks

Back to cories,
I got some more aeneus cories so I can hopefully breed them when they get older. I have 1 male and 2 females I think but they won't spawn even if I do huge WC, so I was hoping more friends would help.


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[brennae]

My trick for spawning is to feed live foods a couple times a day. Mine love blackworms!

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[Fishobsessed7]

My trick for spawning is to feed live foods a couple times a day. Mine love blackworms!

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Where do you get your live foods?


Fishobsessed7

 

[Eggheadfish]

Good idea bren!
I've never fed mine live foods I do a mix between sinking shrimp pellets, some NLS sinking pellets, freeze dried brine shrimp, bloodworms, and tubifex. Sometimes if I fast them for a day or feed minimally and then put a lot of protein in there it helps but really the WC is what I see triggering the spawn the most

 

[brennae]

I get the blackworms at my lfs. Otherwise I usually feed frozen foods, like bloodworms, brine shrimp and daphnia. I feed the babies live microworms which are so tiny you can hardly seem them. I am going to switch over the thawed baby brine shrimp though soon.