I will try and maintain the temperature at around 82-84degf. This should be fine for the discus and will give the cories a chance to do well. I can already see a couple of fish which look like females that could be full of eggs already.

Aaron

Thks for the feedback. Is this a scarce cory ? I was surprised at how little information I could dig up about them.

Aaron

Hi,

I recently acquired a group of 10 Cory Virginiae and they are doing very well in a 120 gallon tank. They seem to eat everything and are very active although still a little skittish. Does anyone have experience at keeping these cories. They are in a discus tank so temperatures are between 83-85 ...

Hi Aaron-
regarding the losses of fry just after adding baby brine shrimp, I was just wondering how thoroughly the brine shrimp were rinsed prior to adding them. The only reason I ask this is that some corys are especially sensitive to salt in the water, especially as juveniles, and I would have ...

Yes,Larry

since I removed the discus the 120 gallon planted tank only has 8 adult Sterbai in it. I am pretty sure that they would not touch the 3 week old fry. There is also plenty of cover in the tank ( plants, wood etc ) so they should find plenty of shelter.

I was wondering about whether they ...

At what age/size could I let them loose in the main tank ? I ask because I will be travelling out of the country over the Christmas period and have no one who could really take care of them and feed them a couple of times a day in the container.

The fry are between two and three weeks old now and ...

Since I lost those fry I transferred them from the plastic dish floating in the main tank to one which has a netted bottom. This enables the water to be kept much cleaner as it is constantly being mixed with the main tank water. Since then I have only lost one more fry so it seems to have worked ...

Today something strange happened. I got home from work and checked on the fry. All were still alive and doing well. The water was clean and they had eaten the crushed flake food I had out in earlier today. After I changed the water I prepared some BBS and added it to the dish.

Twenty minutes later ...

Larry,

I can only guess that I might have missed a WC or
left those BBS too long. I found one more dead fry this morning but no more this evening.

I am upping the WC's now so while I am in the house I change the water every few hours.

When would you recommend that I can move them from the ...

Yesterday I had my first losses ..... came back late from work and found the five biggest fry dead. I was gutted cos these were the best ones. I could clearly see that their bellies were full of food so that was not the problem. I suspect that the water could have got fouled as I had added BBS in ...

The Sterbai have been at me for almost exactly one year. I must point out though that I bought them as adults ( they were wild caught )and in very good shape already when I got them.

I have kept them in a 120 gallon planted tank with 8 discus for about 10 months and they were very , very well fed ...

It's been 8 days are the fry are doing very well. I have only lost two out of around thirty and I think that I killed those myself accidentally during a WC.

As Larry had pointed out, now that they have completed their metamorphosis from the larval stage , they are far more active. Their bellies are ...

Day 5 and all the fry are still alive, free swimming and eating. All the remaining eggs that I had in the second container hatched last night too.

And to cap it all the adults have spawned again in the main tank !!!

Aaron

All the fry are still alive and some of the eggs that I collected 4 days ago now are still hatching so the group is still growing.

Tonight for the first time I confirmed that they have eaten. Even though I never actually saw them feed I noticed that their bellies were all orange. I have been ...

Thks for the info Larry,

I guess I just need to be patient. I am sure that most of them have absorbed their yolk sacs now as their shape has changed. I'll keep the BBS ready and keep an eye on them.

Aaron

Larry,

the fry are three days old now and I can see that they have lost their yolk sacs. I have not lost any yet and there are still around 15 eggs in the hatch container that also look viable.

I added a few cutting from the end of some flower stalks that were in the house thinking that this could ...

Thks Larry,

will follow your advice. I have removed all the eggs I could from this spawn using a blade ( although I did lose quite a few that did not sticK to the blade.).

they are now in a small hatching container and as soon as they hatch I am moving the fry to another container that is floating ...

Thanks for the advice.

I have previously prepared BBS and added some to the container but I have never seen the fry actually eat any shrimp. Should I be adding it as soon as the fry hatch or a few days later ? Could I just crush some flake food very finely instead ?

I am floating the container in ...

My sterbais have spawned quite often and I am on my third attempt trying to raise the fry. I have been using the usual recommended method of removing the eggs and placing them in a small container floated in the main tank.

Something strange happens when I transfer the eggs from the main tank into ...