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FisherCat · Post by **FisherCat** » 08 Dec 2005, 02:36

Hi, I'm new here. We recently got 6 cory eggs to hatch and live and they are in their new minibow 2.5 and are sooooo tiny! I just love 'em! Comments are very welcome, by the way, what do you say about feeding them crushed fish flakes?

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B-2 · Post by **B-2** » 08 Dec 2005, 23:08

Crushed flake food works only if the fish are big enough. Just hatched cory fry are too small to eat crushed flakes but taking a mortar and pestle and grinding up the food into a fine powder works great. Using a variety of foods is the best. When I got some tiny molly fry from a teacher at school, I took flake food, freeze dried foods (bloodworms, plankton, tubifex worms), algae wafers, and shrimp pellets and I ground them into a powder and fed it to the fry. They loved it and the different foods give them more nutrition than just plain flakes. The cories will eventualy get too big for all of them to fit in a 2.5 gallon so plan on getting at least a 10 gallon if you want to keep them. What kind of cories are they? My peppered cories spawned once but the eggs didn't hatch.

I hope they spawn again.

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FisherCat · Post by **FisherCat** » 20 Dec 2005, 02:22

We have 16 babies if I am correct....from 3 different batches. The babies are still the right size so they all can get along with each other- there is a 1 week gap between each batch.

I actually grind up the food- mortar and pestle style, but since I don't actually have a mortar and pestle I use a plastic plate and metal teaspoon!

Which reminds me...I need to grind some more up soon.....

The babies are always active and act just like their parents. They are peppered cories, by the way. The cory in my avvie is one of the parents.....I actually don't know who's babies are who. Al I know is the parents are a set of four adults, named Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin. They live in a ten gallon tank with a small school of zebra danios. We had not been expecting eggs. They just sortof...appeared. Poof. Out of nowhere.

Yeah.....

BUT they are soooooo cute! When they grow up we are going to put some of them back in the 10 gallon with their parents, some are going in with our male betta, Blu, and some are going to pe the first occupants of our not-bought-yet 30 gallon tank. Tut, tut, tut. Spoiled fish. Heh.

lotsabettas · Post by **lotsabettas** » 20 Dec 2005, 05:35

I just had my first batch of cory eggs hatch a week ago (cory aneus) and they are doing great feeding on "golden Pearls" which I got from http://www.kensfish.com its been invaluable for a first food for previos betta spawns and now these little guys. I have about 40 or so cat-lets all are healthy and active

Kana3 · Post by **Kana3** » 20 Dec 2005, 08:29

I've just released a batch of about 30 or so Cory fry (at three weeks) into the tank from thier enclosure. I had a few escapees through a hole where some silicon had dropped out. They now join the previous batch at 5+ weeks, and the previous to that...et al!

I made the mistake this morning of doing a water change, and within three hours I'm cursed with another batch of eggs! (I think I recently made mention of this phenomena in another thread).

Anyway, I use Sera brand 'Micron' powdered food (DE), alternating with some liquid stuff out of the UK. When most batches start out at over 200 mouthes, it takes a bit of practice to get the amount right, balancing between feeding enough, and generating too much waste.

Swinging either way can knock your numbers down dramatically. I reckon I was spot on with this last lot, but most of the buggers got out through that hole, and threw my results (probably Guppy poo now!).

I don't know about naming them (we do 'cos I have daughters!), as I've had up to 60 odd in one tank, and could definitely recognise less than a dozen by sight. Not many have distinguishing features.

I think they're at thier cutest between 3 to 4 weeks, when they actually look like a Cory, but are still quite small. Zipping up and down the Amazon Sword leaves...

Post by **Coryman** » 20 Dec 2005, 11:44

Check this out

Raising Cory fry

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FisherCat · Post by **FisherCat** » 22 Dec 2005, 22:32

Cool. None of my babies have hit the "cutest point" you mentioned, but none the less, I can't see how much cuter they could be now! The oldest are just over two weeks old. We found tons of eggs in the main tank the other day, but we're done rescuing babies for awhile. It seems like they are on a regular schedule of laying eggs once a week, and we can't keep hundreds of babies! We would consider giving some away, but we really don't know anyone good with fish that lives around us!

So I guess we'll just have to find accomodations for the little buggers! They'll be happy when we get that 30 gallon tank we've been talking about, they'll have lots of friends; gouramies, tetras, danios...possibly plecos!

Edit: Why does it put a * when I try to type Pl-e-co? It douesn't like that word. ???

Kana3 · Post by **Kana3** » 28 Dec 2005, 09:00

My being over-run with Corys was a big influence on my buying my larger tank. From 35 litre to 250 litre.

What I'm able to do now is keep a reasonable quantity of Corys, get them to an acceptable age, and then exchange them at the Aquarium Outlets for food, or some other variety of fish.

My daughter swapped a bag of 30 of her Guppies for 2 Keyholes, and a dozen Hockey-sticks. The guy told her he'd accept her fish anytime.

If you watch the prices carefully you can get a good exchange rate. I've seen Cory's here swing between Aus $2.50 and $8.00, depending on what's available at the time.

If you have a reasonable proprietor, and you have good quality fish, they'll welcome you back.

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