Shocked

sche · May 7, 2011

Dear All

I am new on here and have had fish for about 2 months.

Anyway, I woke up this morning and said good morning to my fish and to my astonishment I spotted a baby Panda Cory, and then another!

It wasn't something I was expecting!

I have three adults, one died after only a week.

They seem quite happy and the other fish don't seem to be bothered but I'm wondering if I should set up my backup tank and remove them?

I have 6 x Lemon tetra, 6 x Bumblebee Barbs, 4 x venezualen bronze corys and a pair of Dwarf Gouramis. (And now it would appear 7 pandas, although who knows there maybe some more I haven't seen yet?)

The community has worked well and all fish seem OK and haven't shown any aggression.

Any advice welcome!

Simon

Baccus · May 7, 2011

The babies have survived to the size that you can easily spot them, so really the worst dangers to their tiny lives is past. BIG CONGRATS :good:

on accidentally raising baby pandas, I love cory pandas. I would only really worry about moving the babies if your tank is getting over stocked (or should say over populated), but honestly the cory's will feel so much happier being in a group and the tank's micro-organisms (all your good filter bacteria) should be able to multiply to take care of the extra waste produced by the babies as they continue to grow. As the bacteria have already obviously managed to handle the waste produced by the cory fry already.

OldMan47 · May 7, 2011

Welcome to the forum Sche.
You have done something that I can only envy. You have surviving cory fry. I have yet to have any of my cories breed in any of my tanks. Congratulations on your fry.

Ethan040 · May 7, 2011

I had sterbai cory fry in my main tank i took some out to raise but some where left in and they have survived i put some stones and slate in that only they could fit under which i think helped as they where always under it.

sche · May 11, 2011

Thanks for your replies.

I have left them in and they seemed to be doing very well still. The adults seemed to be very frisky so I don't know if I will have some more at some point!!

I have a large piece of bogwood in there and they often hide under that.

I am surprised because the water is quite hard, even though I use some RO water every 2nd or 3rd time I change out 1/3 of the tank.

Simon

Athena · May 11, 2011

Wow! Well done - not only are panda's usually quite difficult to keep but you're obviously doing something right if they are breeding too! I know panda's are not that easy to find in the LFS and costly (I think I paid £6 each for mine - but they didn't live more than a few months and I couldn't afford to try again!).

Are you able to post any pics for us to see?

Regards, Athena