cory breeding

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Derf

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Okay, I have a few albino corys, corydoras aeneus for anyone needing that, and when I came back from a vacation in Colorado on Saturday, I saw that they had laid eggs. I know someones going to ask how I know they're cory eggs. Heres why.
1. Too big to be snail eggs
2. One cory in particular was looking very fat, and now isn't since the eggs appeared.
3. All the other things in the tank there's only one of.

Anyway, I need to know what sort of things I should do to keep the babies alive and make sure they hatch. Should I get a net breeder? I really don't know, so I'm asking anyone who knows.
 
if you seperate them in a 10 gallon, that would be you best bet for success. Put in some plants and feed the with either sinking pellets or baby brine. Once they hatch they start fending for themselves pretty well.
 
I apparently have two swimming around my tank. They've been there for at least a week. I have been crushing some of the flake food I put in there for everyone else and they seem to be growing.

They do disappear for a day here and there and then I see them pop out of some hide at feeding time.
 
mine's a 29, there are some fake plants, a fake cave/mountain, and a hunk of driftwood. Mine was not planned (well not by me) and I thought the eggs had been eaten before anybody could make it out. There were three groups of about 12-15 eggs. All were actually laid in the same place right after the previous ones had been eaten.
 
Mine is also a 29, and theres 2 pieces of driftwood, and lots of plants. The others in the tank are a platinum color morph gourami, a bigger cory around 2", a butterflyfish, a bamboo shrimp, and a small spiny eel around 4-5". Anything there that might eat the babies?
 
the eel or the gourami may, not sure. I just have tetras, danios, ottos, and the two cories.

I've only had the things for a couple months. I haven't even had a chance to do a water change because of all this egg business. I was waiting for all the fish to be in there for a couple weeks before the first water change and then the eggs started showing up and while i didn't really want the babies, I also didn't want to mess it up. I figured I would let them try to hatch.
 
The gourami will most probably eat them.crushed flake,bbs or microworms will get them growing.
 
in case anyone was wondering:

The two fry I have seen (there could be more since I don't even always see the two and they look exactly alike) are still kicking and growing. Just crushing up the flake food a bit more. no other special treatment.

I am afraid to do any big time cleaning though.
 
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