More babies & cories are spawning (1st time)!!

[dieanna]

I woke up this morning to 7 more black molly fry! Then, just a few moments ago, one of my bronze cories started laying eggs! I'm pretty sure the other bronze is a male. It is smaller and keeps following her around and it seems to be cleaning leaves for her. How do I care for them when they hatch? What do I feed them and how many can I expect? The other fish in the tank are gouramis, red-eye tetras, a pleco, and mollies.

[BrianNY]

Scroll down this link dieanna. It details spawning and raising fry of C. Aenus.

http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/gcory4.html

[dieanna]

thank you

[Stuart]

Best of luck! Mine spawned recently and of the eggs that stayed in the tank I have at least 4 surviving babies

[rich311k]

Congrats and good luck with the eggs.

[dieanna]

It's been a little over 48 hours and so far about 20 of the corys have hatched! Watching the whole process over the past few days has been amazing and I'm glad I witness it. I've never had eggs in my tanks before. I rigged up a 1 gal tank inside my 20 gal for the fry. I dropped the water level in the 20 gal so the fry tank is secure inside. I put a small airstone in it. I couldn't afford to buy a new tank for them, so after an hour of thinking I came up with this idea. This morning I scraped all the eggs off the plants and glass in the 55 and dropped them in the fry tank. I got home from work today and have little guys. Hopefully this will hold them until I can get a new small tank for them.

*edit* Oh yea, I forgot to say that I put the 1 gal in the 20 so that the temperature wouldn't fluctuate. It's getting very cold here and my room temp is 66.

[Stuart]

Just remember to change the water in the little tank frequently as you don't have any filtration in it - sounds like you are on the way to a cory family