Moved them to an aerated container with tannins and RO water

Ive got a second spawn today.

Again, on a floating anubias leaf, and a cold front moved through last night. Seems to be the consistent factor.

bekateen wrote: ↑14 May 2021, 21:11 A beautiful tank. Any signs of spawning yet?

Cheers,
Eric

Very gravid females, and the males chase the females daily, but nothing yet! But the males are fairly persistent, should only be a matter of time as well.

Big belly on these ladies

Getting bigger!

snowball wrote: ↑27 Apr 2021, 02:27 Nice! Any plans for more? Because, you know, Corys are best kept in groups!

Hahahaha he's solo for time being! Maybe he will get a Farlowella twig cat companion on my other arm

Lovely tank, the fish are looking very happy. Are they emperor tetras you have in there with them? I was growing out some black emperor tetra fry in their tank, but they've been homed this week, so now it's ember tetras and boraras urophthalmoides as tankmates with them. I keep black emperors in on...

Theyre looking like mini hoplos more and more

Some clearer photos today, collected a couple for a close look at development. Fed frozen daphnia today and they really liked it

Busy busy little guys!

bekateen wrote: ↑12 Apr 2021, 05:05 How many do you have?

Cheers, Eric

Theres a couple dozen it seems, hard to count them as they dart around when I try to check. I got a couple leaves they hide under in the nursery.

14-15 days old today :D Ive been raising them with remineralized RO water in a small tote nursery, soon will be moved to a bigger containment. 20210411_232341.jpg 20210411_232302.jpg Starting to look more hoplo like rather than tadpole like lol Feeding Hikari First Bites and finely crushed Bug Bites...

Think it turned out okay

7 days old!

Cropped closer.
This guy has both the serrations at the front of the spine, but odontodes on the top

bekateen wrote: ↑02 Apr 2021, 05:20 Hmmmm... I know they can be serrated. But few corys have odontodes.

Given theyre on the top of the fin spine, they seem to be odontodes

Okay. Maybe needs a little filling in and growing? Cheers, Eric An update on this dude... Hes grown quite a bit more, though hadn't been convinced to try prepared foods or veggies like my older ones. However. His weird belly schutes are changing and developing into a 3rd row! 20210401_203433.jpg So...

Was snapping some photos of my male black Venezuela corydoras and one photo focused on his pectoral fin spine.

I noticed bristles.

Never noticed this on cories.

Theyve been started on fry foods, yolk sac is nearly gone and they've gotten mobile now. They got the little flappy fins, so cute. 20210329_233106.jpg Feeding Hikari First Bites and liquefied squished mealworm (sounds gross, but it has done me well with emperor tetra fry in the early days). See whic...

Dad and the fry that have hatched.

Super exciting. Not enough people are working on Callichthyinae. Good luck with the fry. :-) Cheers, Eric Not enough people keep hoplos! They need to be more popular, honestly the best catfish I've had the pleasure of having. I'm surprised, because so many people love corydoras, these guys are so m...

All the luck with them When I had H littorale in that stage, I was unable to get them te eat :( I'm waiting on the yolk sac to be more absorbed, then will get them started on infusoria and First Bites. So far okay, just feel really undeveloped and uncoordinated compared to cory fry. But I breed spa...

Ive got some hatched yesterday and more today!

Very strange looking compared to cory fry.

Seeing some tails poke out

I do think I'm starting to get some hatching.

The eggs are pretty big, compared to cory eggs, and very yellow. Ive put together that report as detailed as I could, if there's anything else I could add, let me know. My understanding is the reports of these guys spawning in captivity is kept quiet by the commercial breeders, so assuming that mean...

bekateen wrote: ↑16 Nov 2020, 02:32 Clever. I'm looking forward to a breeding notification soon.

Cheers, Eric

Here is that notification!

Corycool wrote: ↑25 Mar 2021, 14:41 Hi Miss Noodle ! Any update on the C. Eques ? Fully settled now I assume. Any spawning activity yet ? Best regards.

No spawn yet but the boys have been chasing the ladies, who don't seem interested yet lol

My trio have spawned!!!
I'll file a formal spawning report, but I'm so excited, considering especially this will be the first report of them doing so on here

I like keeping some leaf litter in most my tanks, tannins are good for softwater fish especially and ive found that certain fish like Farlowella twigs naturally will graze on the leaf litter and it's an easy source of biofilm for them. So there's so many perks to leaf litter