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when i went down stairs to feed and turn out the llight of my 29 gallon comunity i discovered on a aponogeton leaf!! about 9 little milky colored cory eggs!! 2 days before i had seen 2 or my corys all buddy buddy, just swimming side by side, i thought for a second that they were looking for a spot, but then tossed the idea away thinking that im not lucky enough, but sure enough now i have them in a 1 gallon acrilic container with an air pump, i held down the tubing with a rock, and slipped the leaf under it too, so that it go alot of water current to prevent funges, can i use jungle fungus clear as a preventitive? i dont have acess to that meth.blue stuff did i do it right? how can u tell if they ar fertilized? how long does it take for them to hatch? and anymorre info would be greatly appreaciated

Last edited by fishyhelper288 at 03-Mar-2005 20:15

I believe when they are white, that means they are unfertilized. Eggs that have been fertilized will remain clear or, in later stages, have clearly developing embryos inside of them.

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well, i found one "white" one, and it had clearly fungused, so i removed it, and should the eggs just be left to lye on the floor of the tank, or should i leae the remaining ones on the leaf? 2 have come loose, and are on the opposite side of the tank, the others are still stuck, and they are just a little milky, but not white, i can sort of see through them, and i think i saw my 2 of my 3 new corys showing the same behavior i think next time i will leave them in the tank, i have just got some dwarf hair grass and another plant almost ready to be planted in the 29, i will try to make a breeding spot, maybe they will like it, but who knows

awesome!
i recently became the new owner of a half dozen new corie babies. they are so cool to watch swim and grow!
one note of caution: if, they become fry, be extremely careful when you gravel vac! i don't know what your substrate is but they love to hide down in there.
good luck and enjoy!

Been there with Pandas. Cory fry are nigh on invisible next to gravel. Until they move. You'll have fun raising these fellows!

Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

i just watched 3 hatch i turned off the bubbler for a sec to look at them, and i saw some movement, i walk away, then come back and i see 2 pop out!!! and 1 is swimming around with a shell on its head and its a good thing i just discovered my thousands of infurisa in my worm/snail tank *IS ESTATIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

EDIT: these are my schwartzi corys which i was told were hard to breed i dident even try....

Last edited by fishyhelper288 at 03-Mar-2005 20:18

Awesome. They must have actually been in your tank for a couple days, because you just posted the topic yesterday and now they are hatched. The "milkiness" was probably the embryos inside.

Now on to caring for the babies, the first thing you need to know is keeping the water parameters - all of them - as stable as possible. Do daily, small water changes with air tubing to suck any wastes out and lower the nitrates.

Second, do not feed the babies anything until their yolk sacs disappear after 2-3 days. During this time they are still getting all of the nutrients they need from their yolks, and they will have no interest in food until the yolk is completely absorbed.

Even as babies, corys are not picky eaters they they will eat pretty much anything as long as it is small enough.

Keep us updated.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Congratulations, Grandma

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i guess i am it was so cool watching them hatch and i looked at them from above and they lready have spines wouldent it hurt a fish like a guppy if it ate the fry? would it get stuck? or are they there but not hard? i had them in a graveless 1 gallon container, but there was alot of "stuff" on the bottom, im not sure what it is, but... so last night i moved them to a temp betta cup thing, it holds 3 cups of water, and i gave them some infurisa just incase one absorbed the yolk faster, and when they are a little bit older i am going to put them in the 10 gallon with my betta fry, would they be ok? i am so tickled that i have cory fry

Congratulations! What kind of cories are they? Good luck on your fry. Please keep us updated.

they were from my schwartzi corys!! and i have 9 fry, they are so inactive, are they suppost to be?

Yes, Corydoras are quite active & very beautiful to see.



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they are much more active today, and i am moving around my fry, so they will son have a 10 gallon to cruze around in