Thanks, Jen. I did a 50% water change, picked out about 30 MTS snails (they're getting smaller now, so I think I've gotten most of the big ones out) and I also took out my bog logs and vacuumed the substrate underneath where they were. It was pretty dirty, but not sure how much was the flourite dust ...

The crushed coral consists of one cup along the back corner wall, and another cup in a media bag in my AQ filter. The cories are always fed at the front of the tank, so I don't think the crushed coral is the problem. I'm trying to think how the missing barbels correlate to the tipping over. My ...

I gravel vac when I change the water. Since it's got a lot of plants, there are only certain open areas that I can really dig into to clean. I also can't reach behind the bog logs, but there are mostly plants back there as well.

I forgot to mention that I have had a recent MTS snail population ...

Forgot to mention--tank has been set up for almost 2 years.

1. Water parameters
a) Temerature range. 76 degrees
b) pH. 6.2
c) GH. don't know, but water is very soft
d) KH <1dH out of tap (although I've added crushed coral to raise the pH slowly over a couple months from 5.4 to the curent 6.2 so the KH is probably higher now.
e)Ammonia, Nitrate, Nitrite ...

6 week old fry 1 on left, 3 week old fry 2 on right

http://www.geocities.com/amosmcdamos/fry6wks_3wks.jpg

Blow-up of fry 2 at 3 weeks. Can anyone verify him/her as a panda cory?

http://www.geocities.com/amosmcdamos/fry2_3wks.jpg
Thanks!
Amy

Oldest fry at 1 week:
http://www.geocities.com/amosmcdamos/fry1_1week.jpg

Oldest fry at 3 weeks:

http://www.geocities.com/amosmcdamos/fry1_3wks.jpg


More to come later.....

Amy

Update on the cory fry:

I moved the two fry to a 5 gallon tank filled half-way with water from the main tank, with a sand substrate. I slowly raised the pH from 5.4 in the main tank to 6.5, over about 2 weeks using very small water changes daily with tap water instead of RO water. They tolerated it ...

Thanks, Birger. I'm feeling better today.

All my corys are between 18 months and 2 years of age. This is the first time I've ever seen eggs, although I did have a Blue Ram in there for a year and it wasn't until after he died that I shortly saw eggs. At what age do corys typically reach breeding ...

I lost my biggest cory fry this morning. He was three weeks old and I could finally see his dorsal fin and barbels. I was trying to suck up a newly hatched cory fry caught between the net and the tank glass, and I accidentally squashed the bigger fry between the tank glass, net and net frame. At ...

Ended up getting the same filter as in the pic, Ian. My BF found one at an LFS near his place.

Also, I'm wondering if I have two different types of cory fry. The bigger one is definitely speckled--and he's now big enough to see his dorsal fin. He looks like he's going to be a paleatus.

The smaller ...

I went to my LFS on the way to work, looking for a poly filter like the one pictured, or something similar. They had nothing. The only filter remotely like it was a tiny Fluval that they wanted to charge $25 for!!

Luckily, my BF has figured out what I need and is going to make me one. :thumbsup ...

Thanks for the pic, Ian. And just to make sure I understand....this filter should go *outside* the breeder net on the tank glass next to the net? And there must be a tube at the top of the filter that will trickle water into the net breeder?

This filter won't suck all the food out of the net ...

Thanks, Ian--my LFS talked me into the Liquifry, shows what they know, at least it was cheap & I only used it once. :oops:

What does a poly filter look like? I won't have time to pick one up today before work, but I can get one tomorrow.

I just gave the fry one squirt of bbs from a pipette this ...

Thanks, Mark.

How much should I feed them? It's not like the usual "what they can eat in 2-3 minutes" for adult fish, because these guys rarely eat when I'm watching them. If I feed them twice a day I'll be feeding them around noon and midnight. I've been giving them a couple squirts of thawed baby ...

Thanks, Allan.

This morning the 2 fry are doing okay. I fed them some pulverized algae wafer. Before I fed them I suctioned off the plastic bottom edge of the net breeder and stirred up the bottom, then used a syringe to change out some water. I also decided to start up the airstone again. Once ...

Thanks, Allan--

Unfortunately, when I went to feed the fry last night, I found that three were dead. Two had fungus around their heads, although that could have happened after death? The three were the dark ones. I did notice that these fry seemed to swim up the net and then sink to the bottom, but ...

My 2 year old cory paleatus female spawned several times over the past month. (I witnessed the mating--typical T-position.) All the eggs were eaten by parents or other tankmates. Finally about 2 weeks ago I set up a net breeder, took 5 fertile eggs off the glass, placed them on a piece of clear ...

Hi, I'm Amy, and have joined because my paleatus cories have decided to surprise me after 2 years with a spawn and I have 5 little fry! They are about 10 days old. I collected the eggs off the tank wall and put them in a net breeder I borrowed from my boyfriend. I plan on posting in the cory ...