Love the little cories!! They look great

I don't currently have any eggs, but I do know that you can post eggs. I have done it. My bronze layed eggs on one of my amazon sword plants. I wrapped the plant in very wet newspaper, and placed it in a ziplock bag with most of the air squeezed out. Then I sent it priority to Jollysue. They made it from Louisiana to California just fine. They hatched out in her tank, and are doing fine.
I tried it because I wanted to know if it would work. Shipping eggs would be so much cheeper than the actual fish. It would also probably work in some moss.
If you find someone with eggs... it would be worth a try.

Well if you were in the UK, I would gladly of sent you some, but would not be happy posting abroad..sorry

Well an update, no more pics as yet....the three cory I have...were doing well....but lost one to fungus...poor little mite had done so well to survive upto now, did try and treat it, but unfortunately lost it after a couple of days...the remaining two, which have turned out to be bronze, are now nice and big...they have been moved to a tank which has other cory's in...and love it swimming about with their own kind....my bronze decided to spawn again at the weekend....so thought I would save some eggs....as thought a friend of mine might want some, but unfortunately neither of us had the time to collect or deliver them, but as I had saved them...I thought oh well may aswell see how they go, as from the last batch I had about 23 eggs and only ended up with 2 survivng fry...anyway they have now hatched....the only thing I had to hand when collecting the eggs, was an ice cream tub which I had used before, but am now regretting putting them in there as it is a pain to keep clean, I counted last night how many had hatched....luckily they were all laying very still....1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,....................55, 56, 57.....got to 61.....and probably missed counting some as they started wriggling about....I must have about 70+....having just got home from work, I have noticed a couple of dead ones....so am going to try and move them into a breeder net tonight, as it is a lot easier to keep clean.

Becks....give us a shout if you want some cory babies...LOL.....!

Debbie

Here are a few pics of them....you can see how they have grown in the picture with one near the sterbai I have....! Please excuse the bright red gravel it actually looks orange in the pictures....my daughter picked it...lol...kids eh? Why do they always want to pick the brightest colour.

This is just a temporary home for them for now....until I have a move round of all my fish...they will then be put in with more bronze cory's I have....but for now they are very happy with the sterbai they are living with, and follow them about all over the place....! But I do know they like to live with their own species, and don't worry they will once I sort out my tanks!

Debbie


(roll on for the next batch to grow to this size.... )

This post has been edited by debbie888: Jul 9 2008, 08:04 PM

Those look to have grown very well for fry so young. Are they only about 2 months old now? They look a good fraction the size of the sterbai now and I don't expect that much growth in only 2 months for most fish.

Oldman Yep they will be eight week old this Wednesday...the sterbai are not yet fully grown though...but the little ones are catching up with them at a rate of knots!

Debbie