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.

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.

Those babies are so cute.

Thank you I may be selling some on here soon. I have to grow them up and figure out how many of what I have. I think i have 4-5 different variety's now from what I can tell.

The best time to ship them is when they are young! Double bag it air tight and you should be good.

They aren't even fully formed at this point! I'm sure it is far too early to ship them

If they are free swimmers then they are good to ship. The smaller the better

Hmmm. ok

Well I moved another 113 of them just now for a grand total of 236. There are probably a dozen or so that are evading me. I've culled a dozen or so as well.

Tell Kory to buy me some I love them.

It looks like shipping is the most expensive part.... I've never shipped before

C. aeneus or C. paleatus seem to be the most common albinos. The bronzes are mostly of the lighter green coloration.

Well the bronzes are at it again. I'm putting the eggs in a Tupperware with tank water and methly blue. I am going to try to get some more tanks today and just make a wall of 10g's and 20's for the fry......
The albinos look like they may be starting today too. They both seem to be morning spawners.

And now there's 200 or so eggs in the albino's tank.....
I will be picking up 2 10gals tonight for $20 from someone on CL and building a rack for 10 or so of them soon.....

Yes I will get some kind of long short tanks for grow out.

Are the 20 longs the size of 2 10's lined up like - -? If so I have one.... I will just have to fight with my son for it

So here is a casualty that is on a dime for size reference.

Awwww, You will have some of these.

I didn't have too many. out of the 240 good fry I only pulled maybe a dozen deformed and dead. Not a bad percentage.

yEAH thats not bad at all. Usually my Jags will have around 600-700 and only about 100 will survive. Its weird i cant figure them out.

I think I am going to get a group of panda corys next. They sell for more. I will probably work my way up from there.

those have got to be some of the cutest fry I have ever seen. By the way my husband and I have gone on a cory kick for the past couple of weeks now so whenever you need to rehome a couple please let me know. Tanks (I meant to spell it that way)

FL to TX is a bit of a ship.... But if you want to pay shipping.......
They have almost doubled in size since the last pics were taken. They are quite cute . These will be relatively cheep but once I upgrade to pandas then other fish I will need to charge more... And get my act together . KMX will be in charge of TX group buys from me

So I am working on building my wall of 10g's I think it will be 3 high and 4 wide. So 12 tanks. I have 7 now and I will be getting another 5 this weekend. Then I just need to build it. I figure once I have this setup it wont be too hard to move up on what I am breeding. Any requests? not cichlids!

Oh and my other batch of eggs are hatching.....

African Cichlids! Do the rock or shell dwellers.

Eh.... Don't they require a lot of gallonage per fish? I need to start with the small stuff. Preferably not very aggressive.

Pics I took of the cory fry yesterday






I'm thinking bronze and peppered?