Help! Peppered Cory Eggs

[rmanpf]

well, yesterday i was looking in my tank and i noticed about 8 cory eggs plastered behind my filter, so i took out a floating breeding trap and carefully removed and caught as many eggs as i could. Unfortunatly i only managed to save 2 and the way my breeding trap is made is i cannot place it above the bubbler because it will tip. I checked on it again today and one seems whiter and the other has a small blackish thing inside. Will they hatch? How long before i know they will or will not hatch? My tank curently has 5 zebra danios, 2 peppered corydoras, 1 powder blue gouramis, 1 male platy, 1 rubber nose pleco,

someone plese help me. what do i do?

 

[drewry]

the one that is white is unlikely to hatch, but the other one sounds good and should hatch with 2-3 days depending on your water temp.
iv always found the strips ov weights you get with plants are good for stoping breeding traps tipping just fold it over the side ov the tank and breeding trap

 

[rmanpf]

the one that is white is unlikely to hatch, but the other one sounds good and should hatch with 2-3 days depending on your water temp.
iv always found the strips ov weights you get with plants are good for stoping breeding traps tipping just fold it over the side ov the tank and breeding trap

k thanks, the eggs fungassed but my cory's spawned again and i managed to save about 20 or so eggs, 10 fungassed so i now have ten left. should hatch any day now

 

[StrontiumDog]

Hi rmanpf,

I've and still am going through what you are now,

The air stone from what your saying is under the breeding trap? If it is, you need to place it inside the breeding trap
this will give more water movement, and hopfully more eggs will survive for you. Make sure that all the hole are small to, as the plastic trap I have have one hole that's big enough for a fry to swim through.

I have found being a bit heavy handed, it helps if I leave the eggs till they turn a beige colour to move them. I don't tend to pop as many, having said that next time I will try newly layed eggs and see if I've got the nack of it.

I also find helpfull is to hold a small net underneath with four fingers and easing the eggs with my thumb nail(helps to when its grown longer). Then if an egg falls you can catch it in the net.

Also check the eggs every day for fungus, one good tip, and it's proberbly from here i've found, is to use some 6mm air line.
Suck up an egg at a time and hold it up to the light. you will be able to see if the egg has fungus quite clearly.

If like me you will find you will be getting eggs nearly every day.

All I can say is good luck and listen to the experts, btw i'm not one of them. I'm about 21 days infront of what your going through.

HTH