My cory saga

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My albino cories laying eggs on the side of the tank!

This is in my 10gal tank that I was using for my rescued cories to fatten them up. All of them but the 3 albinos had been moved over to my 75gal about a week ago. during the 2 week QT time that I had all 10 in there I had been doing massive water changes 20%-50% and feeding shrimp pellets and frozen bloodworm's. still on the same feeding regiment. They had a decent sized water change 2-3 days ago about 30% 2 helpings of frozen bloodworms yesterday.
I have pictures and 2 videos of it I will put them up later after their done.

How long should I leave them in the tank? Do the males have to fertilize the eggs or is that done prior to laying? I will move them to my 20gal for the time being I guess. I know they will eat the eggs and thats all I know :shock:

I think these cories are about 4-5yrs old.

I have no idea how its done
Ya with the luck I'm having with them I may have to get a few more tanks just to raise the fry..... Especially if they keep it up!
It seem they need; Plenty of hiding spots and live or frozen foods. Frozen blood worms live black worms, small tadpole and mosquito larvae. Staple diet of flakes and shrimp pellets and a small piece of algae disc every so often. Oh ya and some Cory love potion

I just got home and scraped another 50-100 eggs off the glass!

Crap your cory are sex addicts.... Congrats to you!!![i]

It must be the good 'vibes' in the house

Must have some good water!!!

Well I had the LFS run a full test on the water from my 75g and he said it was very good. A little hard though.

Ok so I defiantly have baby fish. I can actually see them now. I haven't looked very close at the tank in a few days and now there's a bunch of them

So Albino + albino =?

Should be albino unless they are a standard color carrier right? I read this and was like OMG.... I just bought 5 more tiger fish and looking into how they breed and such cause i want to breed them. (tiger barbs) anyways yeah now i have 8, petland had a 5 for 5 sale might go back today and buy some Diano's but im not sure yet x3 least it's only 5 bucks haha.

Cool, I think one of my tigers may be pregnant. Its the standard color tiger barb I only have 1 standard and 3 albinos so it should be interesting.
I have no idea on the whole albino thing. I defiantly have 2 different types of albino corys though. 3 and 6 Just clueless on what type they actually are

Well I just noticed 4 or 5 molly fry in my 75g last night...... Must be the water....

I agree it is the water!!

It must be I'm about to be up to my eyeballs in fish!!!!!!

It seems like I have 3 different types of corys in my 10gal.... Albinos and 2 others I think. They seem to be growing quite quickly now. I'm going to have to get a few more sponge filters and move them into my 55gal soon

Wow there's a whole bunch of fry! I may need to move them sooner than I wanted too. I will have my BF take pics tonight, Hes better at it then I am :oops: I will post them tomorrowish. I have no idea how many cory fry are in there......

Lets see them

I just watched one of my Malaysian trumpet snails eat one of my fry!!!!
I moved all of the larger snails as quick as I could find them!!!!

Ok here's pics. The big thing is the heater that may give you a size reference. The blue thing is a sponge filter.












Sorry about the bad quality. I'm not so good at fish pics
Oh and that is sand on the bottom

What am i looking at?

Um the cory fry
I know the pics suck but I didn't think they were that bad

Most of them are free swimming now

So I have at least 2 female bronzes laying eggs in my 75gal now. If I had the tankage for them I would take the eggs out. But I don't...... So I guess the other fish get a treat.

I need to get a whole wall of 10's if my corys keep it up!

And another batch of eggs in my 20gal from my albinos..... And no where to put the eggs This is frustrating.
Ok question. The corys seem to spawn for 2 days every 2 weeks give or take a day or two so a total of 2 batches each tank (2 tanks). One batch equals 100-200 eggs. I have at least 4-5 mature females.
The fry I have now are barely big enough to move to my 55gal.
How many 10gal tanks do I need to get to raise all of the fry they produce? I think I'm going to turn this into a 'side job' and start raising them up and selling them.

So I moved all of the fish from my 20gal into a 55gal while I redid the 20gal...... Guess what my corys did in a bear tank when they should have been hiding and scared? Nooooo They were laying more eggs! I think my corys get more than I do
So I'm 'borrowing' my BF's 10gal tank he was cycling for a betta and I'm going to put eggs in there for the moment.....
I think my corys are part rabbit!

Don't overwhelm me with comments or anything.......

So I went and got a turkey baster to move them with. I couldn't find a gentler method That would work on them. I have been counting them as I move them by the cup full. I have moved so far 123 cory fry and I haven't made a dent in the density of the tank You cant even tell that I've taken any out!
Oh and I'm culling them as I do the move. I can inspect them rather well in the baster tube. I've only had to cull 3 so far, They all had very crooked spines. But all in all that's not a bad ratio.