Baby Peppered Corys I nearly flushed down the bog !
Posted: 25 Aug 2004, 21:43
Hello all
In my 200 litre small species tank I have various Barbs, some Danios, Serpae Tetras etc
I also keep all my corys in this tank. I have 3 albinos, three Peppered and three bronze.
Well, I was working at my computer one day when I noticed that my bigger peppered was looking very fat and that one of the other peppered corys was following it around in a sort of "mounting" motion... ! I watched for a while when the big one laid eggs on the front glass.... Before i could do anything about it the barbs gobbled them up... the only ones I could save were half a dozen that she had laid behind the bubble wall..... Well I scrapped the up and stuck them in a plastic bottle. after a couple of days I checked the eggs but nothing was happening...I looked again a few days later.. but nothing. I was just about to flush the contents when one of my kids fell over. I put the bottle down behind the tank and legged it outside to see if he was ok.. anyway.. one week later I am having a tidy up oin my computer room/fish house when I find the bottle with two tiny baby corys in it...
Fortunatly I had a 20 litre tank set up as a nursery/hospital unit where they now reside until they are big enough to go back to the main tank.
cool eh?
In my 200 litre small species tank I have various Barbs, some Danios, Serpae Tetras etc
I also keep all my corys in this tank. I have 3 albinos, three Peppered and three bronze.
Well, I was working at my computer one day when I noticed that my bigger peppered was looking very fat and that one of the other peppered corys was following it around in a sort of "mounting" motion... ! I watched for a while when the big one laid eggs on the front glass.... Before i could do anything about it the barbs gobbled them up... the only ones I could save were half a dozen that she had laid behind the bubble wall..... Well I scrapped the up and stuck them in a plastic bottle. after a couple of days I checked the eggs but nothing was happening...I looked again a few days later.. but nothing. I was just about to flush the contents when one of my kids fell over. I put the bottle down behind the tank and legged it outside to see if he was ok.. anyway.. one week later I am having a tidy up oin my computer room/fish house when I find the bottle with two tiny baby corys in it...
Fortunatly I had a 20 litre tank set up as a nursery/hospital unit where they now reside until they are big enough to go back to the main tank.
cool eh?