I have had my sterbai corys spawning almost every day for over a month now. The first laying I saved 50+ eggs, which I kept in a hang on breeder box, I set up a second breeder box and saved the eggs from a few consecutive layings and then a week or so ago there was another big laying of 80+ eggs. I ...

Going by other pictures of catfish fry by now I should be seeing some barbels and there aren't any. I still don't know whether this is a guppy fry or otherwise but it hasn't grown much and seems to be a bit of a deformed runt! Oh well, false alarm

Time will tell! Guppy does seem like the obvious source of fry, but if it's a guppy it's the most deformed guppy I've ever seen.

I took some video hoping that seeing this little dude in motion would give some clues, since I can't seem to get a picture of him in focus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgJ1m8fQ2BM

Not sure if this will help! Does he behave like a catfish fry?

I tried a clear container I found, but this fry sits on the bottom too much and the corner was too curved so the optics were bad for getting a side pic of him. The other container I had him in was an extremely shallow glass shrimp feeding dish so that was no good either. I haven't seen catfish fry ...

I scarecly know what to think. I know breeding of this species is rare and my understanding is that there are a lot of factors involved to get it right. I have 3 juvenile sized striped raphaels in a 3 foot long 160l/40g tank which also contains a school of rosy barbs and a couple of guppies. I've ...