Cory Effects on Cherry Barb Fry

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corielover
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Cory Effects on Cherry Barb Fry

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O.K., so I accidentally bred my cherry barbs while I was cycling a quarantine tank b-) I guess it's cycled! :-p However, since I wasn't expecting it I didn't take out the parents and they ate all but one of the eggs, larvae, and fry. x( I didn't discover the one remaining until I introduced some corys for "vacuuming." I was making sure they were acclimated and this tiny 2 mm fry swims out from behind one of them. I caught it and went to get food and accommodations. I got back, put him in a little floating container, came back w/ food, and he had escaped. I took the corys out to try to find him again, but after a week gave up and reintroduced them. I immediately found the fry again. Do the corys just scare it out of hiding, or is there some other strange underlying reason for theses coincidental appearances? Just wondering.
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Re: Cory Effects on Cherry Barb Fry

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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.
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Re: Cory Effects on Cherry Barb Fry

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That makes sense. He hangs out around the substrate in the protective container I have him in, and I've caught him eating things.
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