Cory Fry Changed Color

[Coryologist]

Greetings, All.

A few weeks back I had about 150 albino corys hatch. They are doing great. I distinctly remember knowing that they were albinos from the moment they hatched by their "goldish" hue. A few days ago I had another hatch of about 150 but these were absolutely, positutely - gray. Plain, old, ordinary gray. They stayed gray for about 4 days. Now they all look pinkish-gray and it appears I'm seeing "pink" eyes. I can see their belly's are stuffed with bbs. I'm very confused.

The question. Aren't albinos "gold/pink" from the moment of hatching - or are they gray? Am I going nuts, AGAIN???

I just spotted another hatching of about 50 fry and these are also gray. I'm going to keep a close eye on these and see if they change color.

I'm getting tired of having to move guppies out of my tanks because everytime I turn around there's another batch of cory eggs. Five tanks in the past week. I'll bet my last dollar that when I start to truly ATTEMPT to breed corys - I won't get a one! It must be those constant water changes.

Frank/Guppyman

[Coryman]

When albino fry are small they can reflect the colour of the substrate as well as what ever they have eaten, I would not worry too much about them being a grey colour this will change as ther grow. What size are the biggest fry?

Ian

[Coryologist]

Hi Coryman,

All of my tanks are bare bottomed, and painted flat black. The fry that are now over a week old are about 1/4 to 1/3 of an inch.

See: http://www.guppymanguppies.com/planetca ... cats_1.jpg

http://www.guppymanguppies.com/planetca ... cats_2.jpg

http://www.guppymanguppies.com/planetca ... cats_3.jpg

Thanks.

Frank/Guppyman

[Coryman]

They all look OK to me.

Ian