CORY CAT EGGS

[BaldoBoy]

OK SO my cory cats decided to lay eggs all over the tank of my 20 gallon that they were in. i removed all the fish that were in the tank including the parents. all thats left is the eggs on the glass.

my question is this? what do i do now? this is all new to me HELP PLEASE!

 

[chesterthehero]

what did you do with the adults?

my gf collects the eggs and puts them in a breeder box.. then moves them to the sump since theres a lot of waterflow and low light.. light tends to make the eggs fungus...

as for the rest....
use the search button... this has been covered many many times

 

[BaldoBoy]

what did you do with the adults?

my gf collects the eggs and puts them in a breeder box.. then moves them to the sump since theres a lot of waterflow and low light.. light tends to make the eggs fungus...

as for the rest....
use the search button... this has been covered many many times

i put the adults back in the ten gallon that they were origanlly in. i just happend to have a 20 set up for another project , i noticed them starting to lay eggs in the 10 gallon, so i moved them to the 20 by themselves. after they were done i put them back in the 10 gallon. so anything else i need to do?

 

[Nyquil Junkie]

I have a one gal (yeah, 1) with a sand bottom and a LOT of plants, I take the eggs out of the main tank and just drop them in there.

In about 5 or so days, they hatch to tiny little fry. They will eat the little critters on the plants, and they will eat powderized flake food.

A tiny pinch, and swish the surface so it floats down to the sand.

it takes a few weeks for them to grow up to a noticeable size, and a few more weeks to get to about 1/4 inch long.

I suck them up at that point with a turkey baster, and put them in a larger planted tank to grow up big enough to join the big tank.

You can toss the 1/4 babies into the main tank if it has lots and lots of plants and places for them to hide out.

once they get about 1/2 long they start to school with the rest of the adults

 

[BaldoBoy]

I have a one gal (yeah, 1) with a sand bottom and a LOT of plants, I take the eggs out of the main tank and just drop them in there.

In about 5 or so days, they hatch to tiny little fry. They will eat the little critters on the plants, and they will eat powderized flake food.

A tiny pinch, and swish the surface so it floats down to the sand.

it takes a few weeks for them to grow up to a noticeable size, and a few more weeks to get to about 1/4 inch long.

I suck them up at that point with a turkey baster, and put them in a larger planted tank to grow up big enough to join the big tank.

You can toss the 1/4 babies into the main tank if it has lots and lots of plants and places for them to hide out.

once they get about 1/2 long they start to school with the rest of the adults

thanks for the info!

 

[srikamaraja]

In my experience, as long as you continue to do water changes and feed well, the parents will rarely, if ever, molest the eggs/fry. If you provide the fry with a little Java moss, they will have more than enough cover.

Also, the adults enjoy using Java moss as a convenient spawning medium (it very closely resembles one of the old 'spawning mops'), as well as the glass! Anywhere there is moderate current and high oxygenation is seen as prime egg-laying real estate.

 

[Nyquil Junkie]

I only move the eggs because the other fish (mollies) gobble them up.
I dont see the corys actually eating eggs for the most part.

Even though I do move what I find, I still have 4 or 5 little corrys in the big tank who have obviously, escaped any hungry mouths, since I didnt transplant them there.

If you use a 1 gal fry tank with lots of dense plants, you still have to change the water now and then when ammonia shows up in the testing.

But since they are so small, and the food they are eating at that size is living and growing on the plants for the most part, you dont have to change it to often.

Once you start pinching flake powder in the water, of course youll have to change it more often.

By that time they are ready to put in a bigger tank to grow out anyway.

If I had some room, I'd use a 5 or 10 gal tank full of plants and leave them grow out to an inch or so and then move them.

 

[BaldoBoy]

ok so a new batch of eggs were found on the glass late monday night. today is saturdat, shouldnt they or at least some of them hatched by now?