Hi

Well I have some lickle cory babies....they are...well 2 are 2 week old...and the others are a couple of days younger.....I have them in a breeder net at the moment, but after having got a home for the majority of my fry...I have a tank with a few platy babies in...about 10 I would say....think it is 40 litre hex tank....now at the moment it has gravel in...but I had thought of stripping it down...it has a sponge filter in at the moment....and replacing with sand...and putting the cory babies in there with the few platy babies I have....would this be ok? The tank has been running for 3 month and I did daily water changes in it....as I had a lot of fry in there....! The platy fry are only a week and a half old so no chance they would eat the cories or vice versa....!

Would this be ok for them? I am desperate to see them swimming about in a little tank of their own...and would prefer to use sand in the tank, than the gravel that is in there at the moment...and doing that I would get a better view of them.....!

My family are beginning to say I am obsessed with fish...especially cories...my fella texted me yesterday saying 'how are the babies'....thought he meant the kids....but he meant the cory babies..lol....and he says I am obsessed?

I am planning on doing this today after I have finished making some scones...(I am playing at being a housewife today)

Debbie

This post has been edited by debbie888: Jul 9 2008, 08:05 PM

It's dedicated people that help different species thrive Last night my sister said I was fish obsessed and that I'm a dork... LOL. I wanted to be a marine biologist...hard to do in south dakota, though.

Anyways, good luck on your cories. I love the little things. Had then before I was fish literate and had a little accident, though

Well KJ23502...if there is one thing I am...that is dedicated.....even if slighly obsessed....I have had the dork thing...the you are boring cos you like fish...the kids saying I like the fish more than them?

And thanks...I hope to rear the few babies I have left...they are doing really well, and after losing loads....it has made me very happy to see the ones I have swimming up and down the breeder net....!

Hmmm I am sat here wondering what the little accident was?

Years ago I had a tank with goldfish in.....didnt have a lid (I was poor in those days)...could not understand why they kept dying on me...till one day I went in and my cat was squated over the tank...taking a pee...needless to say I soon got a lid for the tank

Just wait till you get told... "If you would get rid of some of those tanks...." They use it for needing space, money being tight, bills being high, not having enough time to do stuff... The poor things get blamed for everything. (And then we go get more...) Those that don't have them just don't understand. It is not a hobby... It is a way of life.

Glad your babies are doing well. You should post a pic when you get their tank done.

Yep I will post a pic when the tank has settled down a bit....stripped it all down tonight...now got sand in.....water a little cloudy...as soon as its settled then a pic I will post

'obsessed', I hear that word a lot around here from everyone.

If the platies are roughly the same size as the cory fry then go right ahead; they'll totally ignore each other. Platies mid upper level, corys bottom level.

Cheers.

Well this is the tank now....with sand...and some fake plants...as I was fed up with snails...!

The tank is not overly big...but for now it will do for them...better than them being in the breeder net....got a little pic of 3 of them resting on the sand....please excuse the green flecks...the damn plant is molting...I have since cleaned the sand...and the tank looks much better....will be nice to watch them grow in there...and when they are a bigger...I have a tank ready for them....!

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This post has been edited by debbie888: Jun 5 2008, 09:58 AM

That's a nice looking setup that you have for them Debbie. Sand is always a good idea for cories.

Thanks Oldman (feel awful calling you that) Its nothing fancy but I am sure they do not mind..!

Well, I put in a blue crayfish. He actually grabbed a cory and was eating it alive I pratically screamed for my hubby to come help me, as I wasn't touching that crawdad...no way in hell Well, the cory lived for a long while and we just broke the crawdads pinchers off. It's not as bad as it sounds. They grew back everytime he molted. I suppose that's b/c they break off in nature, otherwise they wouldn't be able to regrow them. He still ate just fine w/his other grabby things. (thank god it wasnt' my fish that he was eating) I eventually sold it to the lfs for $10. Before we even left the LFS it was already sold for $15 It sold really fast. It was big, though.

That's crazy about your cat...who would've thought

Nice tank you have there

Debbie, don't feel bad about it. Wife started calling me that at 30 and now at 60 I don't really expect her to stop soon.

If she did I'd start to worry.

Well after moving the 7 babies....4 died... I am not sure what this was down to...maybe stress...and even though the platy babies were small...they seemed to enjoy chasing the little cory's about....so I decided rather than risk the other 3...I moved them back to the breeder net...where for the last week...they have been fine...know it was probably not a good idea to move them back, but I didn't want to lose them all, they are really growing now, but am going to wait to move them to a bigger tank...there are only 3 and it is a big net...so am sure they will be ok...they are filling out nicely and can now see their little barbles...is that what they are called? They are feeding well on BBS, and pellets....they at the moment look like they are peppered...but my other ones looked like that but then got more colouring and were bronze...either way...I am just happy to have 3 surviving ones.....cos at least I will have no trouble housing them....!

Will try and get another pic when they are a little bigger...!

Debbie

I've never bred cories Debbie but I have read lots of places that they often experience large losses at about a month old. It may have just been a timing thing.

Hi OM

Yep maybe so.....I am hoping to try and move the babies again...sometime next week as they are growing at a rate of knots....fingers crossed this time...they will be ok.

Thanks for the reply.

Debbie