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Greetings All. For those of you that are interested, I had a small spawning of C. weitzmani, during the night. All of the eggs (about 12) were placed within some floating plants. The one female is huge and I'm hoping that I caught them early in the process and that there are many more eggs to come. I split the eggs into 2 containers that contain some healthy, fast growing wigglers of other Cory species, so hopefully at least one group will hatch. Keep your fingers crossed for me. I'll keep you posted in about 5 days. - Frank/Guppyman

Congrats Frank. Best of luck raising the fry.

Mark

Congrats, Guppyman! It's a lovely species. Please let us know your progress. I'd love to read about it.

Congrat's Frank , i got five of the little cuties on saturday and hope to get them breeding soon.

Kev

Nice work. Did you have them in a group of 5-6?
I'm working with mine, I have them in a 10 gallon, 2 males, one female, the best of my group. What do you think?
Did cold water trigger the spawn? Good luck with the fry.

thebicyclecafe wrote:Nice work. Did you have them in a group of 5-6?

Yes, six actually.

I'm working with mine, I have them in a 10 gallon, 2 males, one female, the best of my group. What do you think?

That seems to be the preferred ratio.

Did cold water trigger the spawn?

Well, a slight, slow drop in temp, as the nights get cooler here, in the mid-Atlantic states.

Good luck with the fry.

Thanks. Eggs looking good after about 60 hours. - Frank

Good luck Frank. Are these the ones that look some what like a clown loach?

Stepchild

Pictures in the Cat-eLog... . I guess they do sort of look like Clown loaches...

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Mats

stepchild wrote:Good luck Frank. Are these the ones that look some what like a clown loach?

Stepchild

Hi. Yes, as Mats said. Sad to report that there were no fry from this first spawning attemp. I'll take the blame. Will do things a bit differently the next time around. The females, since receiving them, have grown very large. The group all look happy and healthy. Good coloration, very active and they eat like pigs. Anything at any time - quickly disappears.

The disappointment is large, but whadareyagonnado? I'll get 'em, next time. Be well, all. - Frank

Guppyman wrote:Hi. Yes, as Mats said. Sad to report that there were no fry from this first spawning attemp. I'll take the blame. Will do things a bit differently the next time around. The females, since receiving them, have grown very large. The group all look happy and healthy. Good coloration, very active and they eat like pigs. Anything at any time - quickly disappears.

The disappointment is large, but whadareyagonnado? I'll get 'em, next time. Be well, all. - Frank

Sorry to hear that.

Care to expand on the "I'll take the blame" and "do things different". Just in case we find ourselves in the same situation [I doubt I'll get Weitzmani's in the near foreseeable future, but my guess is that it's a generic mistake that would apply to any cory], if you see what I mean...

Certainly, there's only two ways to learn these things:
- Listen to people who've done it before, and know how, or at least how NOT to do it.
- Try it yourself, and remember how it went wrong the first time.

Sincerest good wishes for the next time.

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Mats

Hi,

I have one wiggler. Took 8 days to hatch. A few more eggs look good - so maybe . . . . . . .

Frank

EDIT - 4 wigglers after 9 days. - Frank

congrats on the spawn Frank.. hopefully next time you will get more fry from them

madattiver wrote:congrats on the spawn Frank.. hopefully next time you will get more fry from them

Hey. Happy to report that I have 5 healthy fry. Almost ready for the 30 day pic. Coming soon. Thanks. - Frank

Keep up the great work, Frank!

bronzefry wrote:Keep up the great work, Frank!

TYVM. - Frank

i will sit here patiently waiting for that updated pic...

Post a quick "this is how I did it", if you don't mind. Water parameters, plants, tank size, that kind of thing. I am planning on getting some of these for Chrismas.

marktman wrote:Post a quick "this is how I did it", if you don't mind. Water parameters, plants, tank size, that kind of thing. I am planning on getting some of these for Chrismas.

Hi. At the request of Jools I will soon be providing a spawning log/data sheet of my experiences with this species. Stay tuned. - Frank

Very cool Frank

Will you trying to spawn enough that you may have some for sale in the future

Bill

stepchild wrote:Very cool Frank

Will you trying to spawn enough that you may have some for sale in the future

Bill

Hi. From your lips to the Cory god's ears. - Frank

congrats! can't wait for the pics.