Help, I found baby cories in my shrimp tank!

[luenny]

Hi,
My cories breed again, this time it's the panda - well I saw the Sterbai laying eggs but was eaten later. That's not the problem. The problem is I think some of the eggs of the panda cory was stuck to this plant that I have and I moved the plant to my then newly setup tank to keep algae at bay. Now the tank is a shrimp tank and guess what I found, baby panda cories with my shrimps. Manage to catch one but there are more in there. Anybody knows how to remove those out without removing my shrimps and my rocks? I'm just afraid that if the pandas grow big they might eat my shrimps. Thanks.

[luenny]

Anybody can help me in this?? My shrimp tank is mostly a Iwagumi scape with hortworth floating at the back to help reduce algae problem. Foreground is patches of HC and onko (hope I got the spelling right) rocks. The cories seems to be hiding inside the holes of the rocks only coming out occasionally. So frustrating to catch! And I don't even know how many more are inside the tank.

[CK Yeo]

Siphon is probably easiest, but you will probably get some shrimp too. Else, just leave them there until they are big enough to be removed with a net.

ck

[luenny]

I'm just afraid that when they're big enough to be removed with a net, they're also big enough to eat my shrimps. Sigh! They're giving me a headache. Strangely, I do not see them these 2 days. Don't know if they're still alive or not.

[iwishweallcouldwin]

did your panda cories spawn by accident? congrats! care to share your tank conditions which could have induced them to spawn? Heard that panda cories are pretty sensitive cories?

[luenny]

Huh? I didn't even know they spawn. Just like my sterbai. Well, at least this time I know my sterbai spawn because I can see the eggs at the tank wall before it gets eaten.

For the pandas - which is at another tank with the discus and rummies - I have no idea they spawn until I found some babies in my shrimp tank with a black bar across the eye. I don't really know the tank parameters but I think the tank has quite huge current with lots of hiding space, massive (40-50%) water change once every week, pH is on the low side I think because the soil is partly ADA amazonia and partly fine sand. I don't have the tools to measure the pH, kH, etc. All I know is that the windelow is growing fast so I guess the water condition is really suitable for them.

[Merviso]

hey luenny, congrats! It's not easy to get Panda Cory to spawn, good work!

Why don't you just leave the baby Pandas in the shrimp tank? I believe they should be able to live together peacefully.

[luenny]

Thanks Merv. Well, right now no choice but to leave them there. Still have not seen them for 2 days already so I am keeping my fingers crossed. Hopefully there are more baby pandas in the original tank and they manage to survive like my sterbai.

Saw 2 sterbai eggs at the moss yesterday, hopefully nobody go and eat them. Not going to setup another tank for the eggs as I have quite a few now. But still it's quite fun to get a surprise like this once in a while. I guess the key is to keep the water clean and right for them - well, with discus in the tank, the water better be clean.