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Hi I'm trying to find out if my baby bristle nose are in any risk of being eaten by my Cory's ... I've bred Bristles before several times with no problems but this time I have 6 Corydoras in the same tank a 2-1/2 footer - 2 Peppered, 2 Albino & 2 Bronze .... At the moment the baby Bristles (90+)are still hiding under their rock with Dad while they consume their yoke sack, they'll be out & about any day soon & I'm worried if the cory's might eat them or attack them ... please advice asap

This probably belongs in the Loricariid forum, but I'll let some moderator decide to move it if that's he/she thinks that's the right thing to do.

I think bristlenose babies are a little bit too large for cories to easily eat. But I wouldn't bet my entire batch of 90 babies on it, if you see what I mean. [picture: Mats sitting on a fence...] The safe thing to do would be to move the cories to some other tank [assuming you got one]. The (which I presume your Albino also is) will possibly be big enough to eat the babies, if it's a larger one...

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Mats

haha sitting on the fence mate, I must say the cory's are Corydoras Aeneus but not full grown, they're slightly over 1" long & the other 4 are smaller ... Thanks for your reply.... If anyone knows of a story of bristles being eaten by cory's let me know please

I sincerely doubt that the cories would eat the BN fry, for two reasons. Number one, the babies will be too large for the cories to easily consume. Secondly, I've never known cories to attack or try to eat a live, healthy fish. Even sickened fish that barely move are left alone by cories, until they expire. After that though, these opportunistic fish do their jobs pretty well. Your bristlenose fry should be perfectly fine, and I would be surprised to hear otherwise.

I have six Albino BN fry in my 55 right now. Missed from a spawn I removed. With them are four full grown C. sterbae and two very large (5"+) SAE. Been about a week now and no one is missing.

Don

Thanks, now I feel much better ... They're at the stage that 2 or 3 of my Baby Bristle Nose are starting to come out of their rock, so maybe today they'll all come out ..... I thank you all very much Very Happy!