corylover
Aquarium Advice Freak
I have a 1 year old cycled 40g tank. 8-10 mosquito fish (from wild), 3 tiger barbs, 2 golden dojos, 2 regular colored dojos, 3 albino, 3 emerald, and 3 leopard Cory catfish. I started with the resilient mosquito fish in a 10g aquarium and successfully breed them. (this was when I was 14 I am 19 now). last year my neighbor had to go away for 3 days and his niece overfeed and killed all his fish but 2 neons and a loach just before he had to go. so he asked me if I could house his fish and I said yes. the loach lived and the neons that I have had no luck with died. he wasn't to bummed out since they were sick before I got them. when he got back he said he couldn't afford caring for his fish so he asked if I could keep him. I agreed and he later gave me all the aquarium stuff for 100 dollars including the 40g tank and stand. I got the 1 tiger barb, 2 golden dojos, 3 albino, and 3 leopards that year. shortly before my big loach that was my neighbor died (since he was close to 5 years old) I got 2 dojos, 2 tiger barbs and the 3 emeralds. all Cory's are a 1 male to 2 female ratio. my tank has duel filtration for over 50g, 2 big air stones, and a heater that I keep temp at 76f-78f with. my albinos and leopards like this temp to breed. only the albinos have successfully laid where I can get the eggs though XD. on my second attempt at grabbing the eggs 10 days ago I collected around 30. around 20 3 days later hatched. I have them in a plastic container that I have an air stone in and do 50% water changes every day with main tank water. the container floats in the main tank. I feed the fry 1 time a day finely crushed algae wafer (helps with immune system) (just a finger dab) and brine shrimp eggs/shrimp (protein) (1 nice drop). since I have seen them eat with no extra and they are old enough I have switched to 2 times a day feeding like the adults. adults get 2 broken up algae wafers and 2 broken up tubafix worm cubes. the bottom of main has gravel, sand, then a sprinkle of gravel layering. nice cave and plenty of plants to hide all fake though. at feeding time I take the broken up worm cubes and bury some under the sand. they have a blast finding the food XD. the fry though have a bare bottom for now. I have brought my 10g back to working condition 2 days ago. I have seeded it with water, gravel, and rub off from 1 of main tanks filters. this will boost the good bacteria level. in that time I can transfer the fry to the 10g when the levels are right. this is so they can get big enough for the community tank before all but 2 going to new homes.(since the container they are in is 3in by 10in).the 10g has 2 live plants and 1 fake with same bottom as main. it was only suppose to have been my albinos that breed but 3 fry are dark. not albino. I think they could be a leopard egg batch or my mom albino shacked up with my 3 month old emerald male Cory. only time will tell XD. I joined this site to learn more and be able to talk with others who have similar passions.
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I'm slightly envious of your cory fry, I've had 2 successfully hatch on their own , I was on vacation in the uk when I got back home I spotted 2 tiny perfect corydoras
