First Pygmy Cory Spawn

[DiddleBug]

So my pygmy cores suddenly decided to spawn today.  I've had them for like a year now and I don't think they ever have before.  Right now they are in a sanded 10 gallon tank with no other fish.  Can I just leave the eggs to hatch in there?  I've heard pygmys don't eat their eggs and fry but I find that hard to believe.  I really need to move some bronze corys back in that tank soon (I'd spawn them first in the other tank), but I can hold that off if it looks like the pygmy eggs will survive.  I'm getting RCS soon, but I was going to put them in with my bronze corys so I could spawn the bronze!  It's bronze spawn and pygmy eggs get ate or pygmy spawn is saved and bronze don't spawn.  Sorry to be so confusing.  

 

[Wildbetta]

Which pygmy species of cory do you have? Hastatus, Hasbrous, or Pygmaeous?  Personally I would save the pygmy spawn just because from what I hear they are harder to spawn than the bronze.

 

[DiddleBug]

I'm not sure what type they are. They have a dark stripe from head to tail and have. white bellies. Should I move the adults or are they fine? I really don't want have to move them, they just settled in.

 

[Wildbetta]

That could be either the Hasbrous or the Pygmaeous since both of them have lateral stripes and are "white" bellied.  How big are they?   They Hasbrous are the biggest of the pygmy cories and the most widely available that I have seen.  As for if they will be fine to leave the adults...I am not sure on that.  I always assume that they will eat eggs and fry if they run across them although I do not believe that they actively hunt them.   

 

[DiddleBug]

They are like an inch long. I'm just going to let the eggs go, as only one of the three females layed eggs. Thanks for the advice!

 

[DiddleBug]

Well I was surprised today.  I had left the pygmy eggs alone and thought they got ate or didn't hatch due to fungus.  I was just looking in the tank (6 pygmy corys and 11 three week old green cory fry) and thought I saw a little darting thing.  My first guess was that it was a little water bug that was swimming funny.  It was black.  I used an eye dropper to suck it up and saw it had a tail and was a little teeny pygmy fry.    
 
I found 27 total, but that sad thing is I'd just syphoned the tank this morning.  Lots of the poor little guys probably got dumped down the bathtub! 

 
I moved them to a 10 gallon with RCS, an air pump, and a filter that's safe.  I'll put in some Hikari First Bites for them often and see how they do.  Wish me luck!  

 

[DreamertK]

Pics please and congratz!

 

[Supraman]

Nice congrats! I'm going to be trying to breed my kenyi cichlid

 

[fishmad135]

So jealous! Congratulations!

 

[Lilfishy]

Good luck & look forward to seeing pics

 

[TallTree01]

Yay!
This occasion deserves

 

[DiddleBug]

If they live I'll try and get some pictures when they get bigger. Our camera and ipad don't take good close ups though. I don't have photobucket or any of that so I'd have to start a new thread to show you a picture.

 

[DiddleBug]

I decided to post a picture since I was moving the fry into a jar while I fixed a problem in the tank. They are on a new thead.

 

[afiosemion]

I keep a small group of pigmy corys, but no spawn yet... What minium temp you think they could tolerate? I thought about placing them outdoors, may be at night there are 10-12 ºC
 
Thanks

 

[DiddleBug]

I'd say 74-79 F. They really like sand, not gravel. Mine had never spawned for a year but then a few days after I switched to sand they spawned. I hope you get a spawn soon!