Cory eggs at last! 160l tank

[jacksdad]

Great news!
My first tank is my Fluval 160, today I've spotted a cluster of about 20 eggs, stuck to the glass. After looking online I'm positive they are Cory eggs, small white-ish eggs with a tiny 'yolk' visible to the eye, the first lot!
I'll try to take some pics but it hard as the camera won't focus, I'll keep trying.
What should I do with the eggs? Never had any before

[jacksdad]

Here's the best I can do: That's my finger against the glass!

[Pleco Fan]

Which cory's exactly?

[jacksdad]

Could be albinos or peppers, haven't seen anything to go for either. Just had a good look at my 260 tank, no sign of eggs but did catch the honey gouramis …


Must be the Spring weather!

[Martinspuddle]

Your Corydoras eggs, that all depends on what else you have in the aquarium that could eat them and also you need to feed them very small food Infusoria and later Walter or Microworms as the fry quite tiny.

Marks Aquatics on YouTube has a video on how to raise the fry.

[stuaz]

Do you still have your shrimp tank thats in your signature? If so remove the eggs from the glass (Use something like a credit card or razor blade to carefully scrape them off) and then put the eggs in your shrimp tank.

You shrimp will keep the eggs clean from fungus and once they hatch the corys will feed off all the small bugs and such that will be in the shrimp tank that the shrimp don't eat. Then as they get a little bigger you can crush up so normal fish food so its almost like a powder and then put that into the shrimp tank. Anything the babies don't eat, the shrimp will get.

Its what I do with my fish eggs. Have a dozen baby corys in one of my shrimp tanks at the moment in fact.

[jacksdad]

That's a beltin idea stuaz!
I'll do it right now, I was trying to think how to save the eggs and never thought of the shrimp tank

[Martinspuddle]

Brilliant idea Stuaz, I forgot about Jacksdad had a Shrimp tank.

[jacksdad]

Well...
As soon as I put my razor wielding hand into the tank, all the bloody fish came over to have a look. As I scraped the eggs onto the razor blade, the little gits grabbed them off the blade and ate them. I did manage to get 7 or 8 eggs into the shrimp tank, then a juvenile shrimp pounced on them



Its now moved on...and a Ramshorn snail has taken its place! All eggs now eaten by snails and young shrimp

[Martinspuddle]

Sorry to hear that. Those eggs cannot have been fertilised. Fertilised fish eggs Shrimp don't normally touch unless they already hatched or the egg has gone bad. I will say I've never tried this with Crystal Shrimp but I would have thought they be no different to Amano or Neocaridina Shrimp. Ramshorn Snails, well they seem to eat anything I found including dead fish.