...fed bw's for a few days...nice cool water change and 'BOOMBA!'......they spawned a gazillion eggs....LOL.....now to try to get as many as possible swimming... |^|
Good lick Jon. I've never had success with the cories I'm pretty sure it's because all of my cory are in community tanks. huh
This pod is in a 30 long.....1 20 long does nicely too...
Quote from: wsantia1 on December 08, 2018, 08:13:39 AM
Good lick Jon. I've never had success with the cories I'm pretty sure it's because all of my cory are in community tanks. huh
...Willie, you might try heavily planting the community tank and putting in Panda cories...they will place one egg at a time on underside of leaves...some of my Panda eggs survive once in awhile and make it to adulthood...
...I was just watching mine feed a few minutes ago...i started with about 6 or 7 and now there are 13-14 in there...!
Quote from: Ron Sower on December 08, 2018, 09:04:09 AM
Quote from: wsantia1 on December 08, 2018, 08:13:39 AM
Good lick Jon. I've never had success with the cories I'm pretty sure it's because all of my cory are in community tanks. huh
...Willie, you might try heavily planting the community tank and putting in Panda cories...they will place one egg at a time on underside of leaves...some of my Panda eggs survive once in awhile and make it to adulthood...
...I was just watching mine feed a few minutes ago...i started with about 6 or 7 and now there are 13-14 in there...!
Thanks for the suggestion Ron. I've actually been thinking of setting up a nice planted tank. I'll start with some fresh cories since it will be a PITA to catch the ones I currently have. I like the pandas too.
Angelfish are pretty smart. If you have Angels in there they will learn when the cories spawn and follow them around to eat the eggs. I have a couple tanks with Angels and Cories and I have watched them.
Quote from: waterboy on December 09, 2018, 09:53:24 AM
Angelfish are pretty smart. If you have Angels in there they will learn when the cories spawn and follow them around to eat the eggs. I have a couple tanks with Angels and Cories and I have watched them.
Yes Angels are smart. Mine like to hang out in from of the BN caves when the males are fanning their eggs.
Quote from: wsantia1 on December 10, 2018, 07:06:43 AM
Quote from: waterboy on December 09, 2018, 09:53:24 AM
Angelfish are pretty smart. If you have Angels in there they will learn when the cories spawn and follow them around to eat the eggs. I have a couple tanks with Angels and Cories and I have watched them.
Yes Angels are smart. Mine like to hand out in from of the BN caves when the makes they are fanning their eggs.
...yup....they love moving live food.... |^|
Just found out recently that at least some types might potentially self poison themselves in shipping,i had no clue.
Quote from: ghonk on December 10, 2018, 12:27:57 PM
Just found out recently that at least some types might potentially self poison themselves in shipping,i had no clue.
..yes, some do when stressed or as a defense mechanism......
https://www.ratemyfishtank.com/blog/self-poisoning-a-damaging-defense-mechanism (https://www.ratemyfishtank.com/blog/self-poisoning-a-damaging-defense-mechanism)
Supposedly some do and some don't. I have never seen a list of the ones that do. I have bagged Bronze, Peppered, Metae, Panda, Ehrhardti and cw021 cories for swaps and have never seen this phenomena.
I sold my albino sterbai and they were all DOA.
Buyer said the water felt warm,so I thought I must have had a to small of a box for the heat pack.
I was surprised because I had shipped that way in the past with no problem, so I assumed they just couldn't handle the higher temp.
Now beginning to think it may have been the poisoning.
Quote from: ghonk on December 12, 2018, 03:00:07 PM
I sold my albino sterbai and they were all DOA.
Buyer said the water felt warm,so I thought I must have had a to small of a box for the heat pack.
I was surprised because I had shipped that way in the past with no problem, so I assumed they just couldn't handle the higher temp.
Now beginning to think it may have been the poisoning.
,,interesting....my Sterbia fry from Josh McMullen, a while back, were all DOA too......
I have heard people recommend netting them out and put them in a bucket and agitate them for a while before bagging them in new water. I have no clue if it works or not.