What to do or feed babies Corydoras

[freezze]

I was triming the plants in tank.. when i saw two babies corydoras skippin on the gravel.. thy are about <10mm long..

what to feed them ??.. mine is a community tank..

[benny]

You can consider chopped tubifex worms or dried food like Tetramin.

Cheers,

[mickthefish]

well said benny, i can't add anything to that.
do you get tetratabs over there if so that is a good food for the fry as it drops straight to the floor, and it's fine enough for the fry.
mick
btw who do you think are the parents.

[CK Yeo]

If it is a planted tank, you dun really need to give them special attention. They should be able to find enough from what you feed normally. However, they won't grow as fast compared with taking them out and feed them livefood.

BTW, what species are they? My sterbai and trili occasionally spawn in my planted tanks and sometimes evade predation to grow up...

ck

[freezze]

the parent should be the 3 panda cory i have in the tank, but dono which is the male or female..
as for feeding .. i dont think the abovemention food will work cos b4 it reach them, the other fishes in the tank will have already eaten it..

how many babies do thy produce at one time..?

[mickthefish]

if they are panda fry well done it took me some years before i got mine to breed, as to how many eggs they lay it's a bit difficult to answer as ive had them do a full spawning of around 40eggs, and then they do spawn every other day laying only a few eggs at a time.
a good way to make sure you raise the fry is if you can get a mesh breeding trap put the fry in there, then the food will go direct to the fry.
mick

[freezze]

mine is no longer in the fry stage.. it looks like the parent now.. only in smaller version..

[mickthefish]

oh well if thats the case, just follow what CK has said, but also what CK said they will grow alot slower than if you took them out and put them in a tank of thier own.
mick

[XnSdVd]

I'd imagine they eat baby tubifex in the wild so you can try pouring the entire bag into the tank and letting them breed there.

Seems to work for my rasbora fry.

[freezze]

huh.. live worm wiggling on the gravel..

any idea how old is the babies now.. it about 10mm long.. ( i try to take a photo of them.. seem thy only come out to play after 10pm..)

[mickthefish]

to that question it would only be a guess, as they are fully developed they have to be 4 months or older.
mick

[XnSdVd]

Live worms IN the gravel, and breeding in it. Ever wondered why corydoras like to stick their heads in the sand so much?

[freezze]

to that question it would only be a guess, as they are fully developed they have to be 4 months or older.
mick

u mean thy been in the tank for the past 4 mths ... where thy been hidding all this time.. these two must be very lucky to have evade alot of predator until now