There's a good chance that the fry is hiding/eating food off the substrate and the corys scare him away from the bottom because they are always foraging.

I would breed them in a smaller, species only tank and then transfer them to the bigger tank for growout once they are 1/4" or so.

Thank you, Corycory for chiming in. I was pretty sure I could tell the difference between fertile and infertile eggs and that fertile eggs of the albino cory are translucent white. My C. paleatus are the same color and I had about 1 dozen hatch this morning. I remember the mortality rate of the ...

They look pretty good when they're collected. Mine are albino C. aeneus, so I think they're supposed to be whitish. They are not opaque white when collected.

You still out there?

Mine just laid eggs this morning, so here I go again. I bought a new bottle of Methylene Blue and started using it with this batch. I probably need to do daily water changes on the egg tank too. I'll re-read Ian's article again today.

Unfortunately, my eggs didn't hatch again. I bought a new bottle of methylene blue for the next attempt. How is your batch doing?

You are so lucky especially under the travelling circumstances! Yes, you fed them too early. It will take about 3 days for them to deplete their egg sacs. Like Sino12 said, get some moss in there first, stay on top of daily water changes, then start feeding foods once the egg sacs are depleted ...

Wow, you are one dedicated hobbyist! I don't know if you could plan things out much better than you did. I wish you the best of luck and hope you get some eggs to hatch. I look forward to hearing your next report. I found some H2O2 in the medicine cabinet and dumped a capful into my tank right ...

Would you believe that of all of the places that I heard about using H2O2 was right here?!? LOL!

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... =6&t=36016

These eggs were laid on 12/17/2012.

Do you think that your empty tank with eggs on the side looks so weird now?

I'm pretty sure there are safe levels of H2O2 to dose. I do tons of reading and remember somebody mentioning that somewhere that I can't recall at the moment, so it is being done. The reason I mentioned it is because it would be a household remedy since you can't find a place to buy meth blue. It's ...

I'm in a similar situation as you. A couple of days ago a nice weather front came through my area and I found 300+ albino C. aeneus eggs. I'm using Primed tap water as well and running a sponge filter in a 2.5 gallon tank. I found an old bottle of Methelene Blue, but my eggs are still fungusing. I ...

I see where you are coming from now. Thanks a bunch, James!

Thanks, James! Would you happen to have a picture or a link to a picture of the diffusor to share so I can get a visual?

I have 9 Otocinclus vittatus or vestitus in a 10 gallon planted tank on my desk at work. I setup the tank in July of this year. I acquired the fish from PetSmart here in the US. I have a common HOB filter with a sponge prefilter on it. Heater is set at 75F. 20W flourescent bulb on an 8 hour timer ...

My male albino Ancistrus just died. I noticed what looked like a big, dark bruise on one of it's sides and the belly looked the same. Any ideas?

Both of the pairs have been kept in separate tanks for some time now. The sick male came from a 29US gallon tank that I had about 40 Rosy Barbs growing out in it. The RB's range in size from .5"-1.5". These are the biggest fish I've had housed together with them. I've never seen any fish picking on ...

Thanks, glad to be here.

I have 2 breeding pairs of albino Ancistrus. One pair is more mature and breeds readily. The other pair is younger and has breed a couple of times, but hasn't in a while. While moving the younger pair to a new tank all of their own, I noticed the male's face is quite puffy all around the mouth about ...

Hi Everybody!

I'm Rob from Cincinnati, OH. I've been breeding catfish in my tanks for about 1 year now. I've spawned C. aeneus, C. pygmeaus, Albino Ancistrus, & LG6 "Microsturisoma".

Now I'm off to post in the other forums! See you around.