Super sticky Cory eggs appear!

[torbanite]

I'll keep my fingers crossed for them.
M.

[fischkringli]

They look very good! Its always great to look on the pictures of them and see, how fast they grow.
How long are the biggest of the cory babies ?

[L number Banana]

I'll keep my fingers crossed for them.

Thanks Torbanite! I put four in and they're still there but I can only find all four when the tank is backlit, they're good at hidding

Hi fischkringli,
The one in the picture is the only one that ventures out onto the sand. It's about 1 cm. I wanted to try moving some out of the floating tank because my Farlowella has laid a few eggs and maybe I can get some of those to hatch. They're only 5 eggs.

I lost about 5 cory babies when I tried putting a mossball in the small floating tank - bad idea! I don't know why but maybe the mossball had too much stuff inside that polluted the water? The next morning there were five dead ones on the bottom. Not sure but I won't do that again. I'll stick with the floating leaves

[fischkringli]

L number Banana wrote:

I wanted to try moving some out of the floating tank because my Farlowella has laid a few eggs and maybe I can get some of those to hatch.

Its always the same. When you think you got enough aquaria (this moments are rare enough) you need more

The problem with the mossballs is that bad thigs like rests of food could be in the small "hairs". You could clean them before putting them in a baby tank, but only cleaning with warm water. If you use cold water, they could get brown.

[L number Banana]

fischkringli wrote:

Its always the same. When you think you got enough aquaria (this moments are rare enough) you need more

Heehee, how true but it's a nice, safe addiction

[fischkringli]

The good thing of the mossball is, that many bacterias and other small things, that babie fish like to eat, are in one of them.
Hara hara makes small holes into a mossball and put the eggs, a short time before hatching, in the holes. So the babies have enough to eat.

[L number Banana]

Hi fischkringl,
Here's a quite update of how the cory babies are doing. May have lost a few, I'm not sure, the babies have good camouflage!
This picture isn't very good but you can see the size difference from Mom to baby, that's Mom's head in the background.

This fish is a bit bigger. The mossball beside her is 2 inches (5cm) across.

There's many babies that are like the smallest one in the top picture and two or three that are a bit bigger than this one. The biggest ones look more like their parents and have started to get a nice green flash.
Haven't had any new eggs at all but they look like they are still trying
New camera in a few weeks so better pictures soon..

What's happening in your tanks these days? Anything new, babies or fish?

[fischkringli]

Lots of news. I am building a 300l mudskipper tank.
I got 16 Dermogenys sumatranus babies (one white, my favourite one). They are growing in the breeder tank with 7 baby Chlamydogobius eremius as tankmates. The Syno in the tanganyika tank is sold and my sister wants to buy a pitbull pleco.
Here are pictures

One of the grey babies

And here my favourite one. He is a bit mystic

And one goby baby. I always go happy when I look into this small green eyes.

[L number Banana]

That last one is hard to see! Adorable with the little green eye. Good pictures.
You're lucky to have other family members that share your hobby -interests.
I'm starting a biotope for species from my area. We have mudskippers here but I haven't seen them yet, I'll have to pm you a picture when I find out what they are.

[jeff@zina.com]

fischkringli wrote:

Its always the same. When you think you got enough aquaria (this moments are rare enough) you need more

Heehee, how true but it's a nice, safe addiction

Not if your spouse finds a steak knife before a divorce lawyer...

Jeff

[fischkringli]

Lucky me, Im 14 years old .

[L number Banana]

Lucky me, Im 14 years old .

Plan to meet your future wife at a fish convention or a fish store just to be safe

[fischkringli]

That will be hard. In the town next to our village, there are 8 fish shops, but 90% are men.

[L number Banana]

That will be hard. In the town next to our village, there are 8 fish shops, but 90% are men.

You have time on your side
But maybe I should tell that statistic to the unmarried fish shop ladies here.

[fischkringli]

Whats about the cory adults? You have said they are trying to spawn again.

[rich.05.24.09]

I'll keep my fingers crossed for them.

Thanks Torbanite! I put four in and they're still there but I can only find all four when the tank is backlit, they're good at hidding

Hi fischkringli,
The one in the picture is the only one that ventures out onto the sand. It's about 1 cm. I wanted to try moving some out of the floating tank because my Farlowella has laid a few eggs and maybe I can get some of those to hatch. They're only 5 eggs.

I lost about 5 cory babies when I tried putting a mossball in the small floating tank - bad idea! I don't know why but maybe the mossball had too much stuff inside that polluted the water? The next morning there were five dead ones on the bottom. Not sure but I won't do that again. I'll stick with the floating leaves

I think they are not suitable on mossball, that could be a bad idea guys... yeah maybe the mossball had too much thing inside that polluted water... you could try to save those others...