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Taking a long shot but since I gonna return them to the parents sooner or later, I might as well try ID see who 'did' i while I was not around

Here a pix of a 15 day old fry. Any idea which species it could be?

The cories that were in the tank with the eggs:
6 schwartzi
5 similis
1 duplicareus
1 melini
2 leucomelas
4 arcuatus
3 ambiacus
1 metae
3 loxozonus
4 atropersonatus
1 aeneus
4 albino-aeneus
1 sterbai
5 venezuelanus-orange
20+ hastatus
2 julii
1 simulatus
1 gossei
3 davidsandsi
4 caudimaculatus
3 axelrodi

How many eggs did you find? And in which size?

at 15 days of age it is almost impossible to pinpoint who the parents are of these fry.. at this stage 90% of the fry look very similar to each other. i would give it 2 or 3 more weeks before they start growing into their adult colors.. anything right now would just be a guess..

Found 2 batch of eggs with an estimated count of 120+ eggs. Eggs were 1 to 1.2mm big and whitish in colour. Hatch rate was about 90%.

madattiver wrote:at 15 days of age it is almost impossible to pinpoint who the parents are of these fry.. at this stage 90% of the fry look very similar to each other. i would give it 2 or 3 more weeks before they start growing into their adult colors.. anything right now would just be a guess..

madattiver, thanks for the pointer!!! ... dun see u visiting petfrd now, do ya?

i actually have been busy lately.. haven't been visiting anywhere much.. was there yesterday and saw the post on the fry and was going to add pics of my fry too.. maybe will do that now

Just thought that I might as well take out those species which are unlikely suspects So below the list of the likely culprits. Gonna take a pix in another week when they're about 1 month old

6 schwartzi
5 similis
4 arcuatus
3 ambiacus
3 loxozonus
4 atropersonatus
1 aeneus + 4 albino-aeneus
5 venezuelanus-orange
20+ hastatus
3 davidsandsi
3 axelrodi

damnit,

firstly they are not C. hastatus, they have a totally different colour pattern.

secondly they could be any one of the others, it will a month before the pattern will be recognisable.

Finally could you add you location to your profile.

Ian

Thanks Ian! Arrrggggghhhh!!! I really thot I could have more hastatus. Oh well, at least now my list is shortened Do you mean in another one months' time (when they're 7 weeks old)? Or you mean when they're one month old (in one week's time)?

6 schwartzi
5 similis
4 arcuatus
3 ambiacus
3 loxozonus
4 atropersonatus
1 aeneus + 4 albino-aeneus
5 venezuelanus-orange
3 davidsandsi
3 axelrodi

PS. Added Singapore to my location too

Send some more pictures as they are now.

Ian

All right finally managed to sneak some time out to take some pixs. Below are the fries. Majority of them are 10mm big now and starting to take tubifex worms

Think the fries are too early for a guess huh?

Still too young to tell, but I have a feeling these will turn out to be C. davidsandsi.

Ian

Thanks Ian!! Will try to get a picture of them when they're 5 or 6 weeks old. Right not, they're already feeding on tubifex and the maximum size of the fry is 12-14mm

These guys turning out to be aeneus venez-orange Will try get some pix of them now (6 weeks old)