L190
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So here is a version of a sterbai Cory you don't see everyday. I bought a group of these Cory late last summer. The seller said they were ready to breed. I put them in a 40 gallon tank, conditioned them with live foods for 1 month and nothing happen. I gave up trying to breed these guys thinking they were too young to breed and threw then in the 260 gallon pleco tank. While they were in the pleco tank, they ate whatever the plecos ate, pellets, market shrimp, squid, clams, tilapia... I notice 3 weeks ago that they were getting big, 2 of them looked like they had dropsy. I netted them out, which took a very long time, and added them in a 20 gallon long.
While they were in the 20l, i fed them things like blood worms and krill pellets and didn't do a wc for 2 weeks. The tank looked pretty gross after the 2 weeks. Right when I was about to do a wc, I notice lots of eggs on the glass. I proceeded to do a large water change to hopefully induce them to deposit a lot more eggs. They deposited only a few after the wc, some of which I scraped off and put in a specimen container with methylene blue.
Today they have hatched. A lot of the eggs that I didn't scrape off hatch too. Now there are a bunch of balls with tails swimming around the tank. I quickly set up another 20 l to throw the adults in.
So in the Cory fry tank, I am raising some betta rubra fry, albino Cory sterbai fry, super red pleco fry and green dragon fry.
While they were in the 20l, i fed them things like blood worms and krill pellets and didn't do a wc for 2 weeks. The tank looked pretty gross after the 2 weeks. Right when I was about to do a wc, I notice lots of eggs on the glass. I proceeded to do a large water change to hopefully induce them to deposit a lot more eggs. They deposited only a few after the wc, some of which I scraped off and put in a specimen container with methylene blue.
Today they have hatched. A lot of the eggs that I didn't scrape off hatch too. Now there are a bunch of balls with tails swimming around the tank. I quickly set up another 20 l to throw the adults in.
So in the Cory fry tank, I am raising some betta rubra fry, albino Cory sterbai fry, super red pleco fry and green dragon fry.