Storytime

[D&M]

Well, interesting day, decided I should post, maybe get a question answered.

Woke up this morning, and at the top of the tank, in a corner behind an
airstone "jetstream" there is about 30 small disks stuck to the glass
(eggs).

This is the first time I've ever seen eggs in any of my tanks.

In this tank there is:
15 ottos
12 assorted cory's, various species
3 coolie loaches
3 black coolie loaches
2 upside down cats
1 faux upside down cat
1 pseudo pleco
1 clown pleco
1 bulldog pleco
3 bloodfin tetras
3 zebra danios (long fin)
2 bumblebee gobies
2 flying fox's
2 Rainbows

So, who was getting frisky in the tank? Well, most likely to have been.

Probably a guessing game as to whom the eggs belong to.

The eggs are safe where they are, the jetstream from the big airstone is
keeping the other fish away. I really want to know whose eggs these are, and
want to save a couple of the fry. Is there a safe way of moving the eggs or
protecting them from the other fish. Before they hatch, is there something I
can stick in the tank for the fry to hid in that works good.

Well, that's the start of the day. Now playing "Finding Nemo"

We just watch Finding Nemo a few days ago, got a kick out of it.Then it
happened.....
Got home from work tonight, water's dirty, filters not pumping out any
water. This is an Emperor 400 on a 30g tank, just doesn't happen, never has.
Lifted the cover, and "SPLASH" something big and black whips through the
filter. Pulled all the cartridges, and here's this black coolie loach in the
filter. Anyone that has a Emperor know what I mean when I say that's just
not possible. The mesh on the intake is way to tight, and the outflow past
the biowheels is way to strong for a coolie loach to get past.
Pulled out the net, scooped him back into the tank.
Start cleaning out the Emperor, dump it out and 3 gravel rocks drop out of
the impellor assembly and reservoir. This is not possible either, there is
absolutely no possible way that even one gravel rock could get into the
filter, let alone 3.
Quite the day, my fiance was laughing pretty good over the "Nemo" incident.
Probably one of those things you'd have to be there for. Moving the tank
away from the TV before they get anymore ideas ;)

Cheers

[Rick]

"D&M" > wrote in message
...
> Well, interesting day, decided I should post, maybe get a question
answered.
>
> Woke up this morning, and at the top of the tank, in a corner behind an
> airstone "jetstream" there is about 30 small disks stuck to the glass
> (eggs).
>
> This is the first time I've ever seen eggs in any of my tanks.
>
> In this tank there is:
> 15 ottos
> 12 assorted cory's, various species
> 3 coolie loaches
> 3 black coolie loaches
> 2 upside down cats
> 1 faux upside down cat
> 1 pseudo pleco
> 1 clown pleco
> 1 bulldog pleco
> 3 bloodfin tetras
> 3 zebra danios (long fin)
> 2 bumblebee gobies
> 2 flying fox's
> 2 Rainbows
>
> So, who was getting frisky in the tank? Well, most likely to have been.
>
> Probably a guessing game as to whom the eggs belong to.
>
> The eggs are safe where they are, the jetstream from the big airstone is
> keeping the other fish away. I really want to know whose eggs these are,
and
> want to save a couple of the fry. Is there a safe way of moving the eggs
or
> protecting them from the other fish. Before they hatch, is there something
I
> can stick in the tank for the fry to hid in that works good.
>
> Well, that's the start of the day. Now playing "Finding Nemo"
>
> We just watch Finding Nemo a few days ago, got a kick out of it.Then it
> happened.....
> Got home from work tonight, water's dirty, filters not pumping out any
> water. This is an Emperor 400 on a 30g tank, just doesn't happen, never
has.
> Lifted the cover, and "SPLASH" something big and black whips through the
> filter. Pulled all the cartridges, and here's this black coolie loach in
the
> filter. Anyone that has a Emperor know what I mean when I say that's just
> not possible. The mesh on the intake is way to tight, and the outflow past
> the biowheels is way to strong for a coolie loach to get past.
> Pulled out the net, scooped him back into the tank.
> Start cleaning out the Emperor, dump it out and 3 gravel rocks drop out of
> the impellor assembly and reservoir. This is not possible either, there is
> absolutely no possible way that even one gravel rock could get into the
> filter, let alone 3.
> Quite the day, my fiance was laughing pretty good over the "Nemo"
incident.
> Probably one of those things you'd have to be there for. Moving the tank
> away from the TV before they get anymore ideas ;)
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
I'd put money on the eggs belonging to your Corydoras. To save some of the
fry you will have to remove the eggs and place them in a separate container.
I use tupperware type containers with a few drops of meth blue. Remove any
eggs that fungus. When the eggs start to hatch use an eye dropper or
something similar to remove the hatched egg shells. You will have to begin
feeding them in 3 days using live BBS or micro worms. I use both but prefer
BBS as their little belly's turn orange and you know if they are eating or
not. Do not overfeed and remove any uneaten shrimp/worms. I feed 3 times a
day and after removing the left overs I top up the water (kinda small
frequent water changes). I keep fry in the smaller containers for about 2-3
weeks prior to moving them into grow out tanks. Good luck.

Rick

[D&M]

> I'd put money on the eggs belonging to your Corydoras. To save some of the
> fry you will have to remove the eggs and place them in a separate
container.

How do you get them off the glass without damaging them? They look pretty
stuck on.

[~misfit~]

D&M wrote:
>> I'd put money on the eggs belonging to your Corydoras. To save some
>> of the fry you will have to remove the eggs and place them in a
>> separate container.
>
> How do you get them off the glass without damaging them? They look
> pretty stuck on.

Razor blade.
--
~misfit~

[~misfit~]

Rick wrote:
> "D&M" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Well, interesting day, decided I should post, maybe get a question
>> answered.
>>
>> Woke up this morning, and at the top of the tank, in a corner behind
>> an airstone "jetstream" there is about 30 small disks stuck to the
>> glass (eggs).

<snip>

> I'd put money on the eggs belonging to your Corydoras.

Gotta agree there. I just went to the trouble of setting up a new tank for
my big male ancistrus, he fights my smaller male in my community tank so I
put him in with my oscar. The oscar hassled him for a while but hurt her
mouth so I figured she'd leave him alone. No such luck, three months later
and she still hunts him. I put him in his nice new tank with a canister
filter I'd been running on the oscar tank for a few weeks to 'break it in',
put in a winsome young female with him and a half-dozen peppered cats
(paleatus?).

The next afternoon there were about 50 eggs stuck to the glass, in high-flow
areas (corydoras always lay their eggs in high oxygen areas, another
give-away with D&M's eggs by the airstream). So, the poor, long-suffering
ancistrus got put back in the oscar tank, the female ancistrus and the corys
went back to the community tank and all the gravel was carefully removed
from the new tank and a fine sponge was fitted over the canister intake.
That was on the 20th of last month. Now I have about 30 baby corys, starting
to darken up and get their markings, motoring around the bottom of the tank,
with some big ramshorns to eat any food they miss. I'm no longer set up to
feed them properly like I did when I bred fish for a living, I just fed them
flake rubbed through a fine tea-strainer from day one.

Soon I'll put the gravel back in along with the ancistrus, he'll get to
share his new tank with 30 baby corys instead of a half-dozen adults.
--
~misfit~

[D&M]

By the time I got around to setting up a container for the eggs, and
locating meth blue, out of all the eggs in the tank, only 1 was left.
I turned off all the filtration and air searched closely for other, but
none, so rescued the one egg. Must have busted the shell removing it,
because when I looked into the container for the egg I'll just stuck in
there, it was empty and a lil fry swimming around. They sure grow fast.
Couple days ago, I couldn't hardly see it, now it's actually got the shape
of a fish, about 2-3mm size.
The Cory's are still mating, haven't seen anymore eggs though. Maybe they're
just practicing for next time.

"~misfit~" > wrote in message
...
> Rick wrote:
> > "D&M" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> Well, interesting day, decided I should post, maybe get a question
> >> answered.
> >>
> >> Woke up this morning, and at the top of the tank, in a corner behind
> >> an airstone "jetstream" there is about 30 small disks stuck to the
> >> glass (eggs).
>
> <snip>
>
> > I'd put money on the eggs belonging to your Corydoras.
>
> Gotta agree there. I just went to the trouble of setting up a new tank for
> my big male ancistrus, he fights my smaller male in my community tank so I
> put him in with my oscar. The oscar hassled him for a while but hurt her
> mouth so I figured she'd leave him alone. No such luck, three months later
> and she still hunts him. I put him in his nice new tank with a canister
> filter I'd been running on the oscar tank for a few weeks to 'break it
in',
> put in a winsome young female with him and a half-dozen peppered cats
> (paleatus?).
>
> The next afternoon there were about 50 eggs stuck to the glass, in
high-flow
> areas (corydoras always lay their eggs in high oxygen areas, another
> give-away with D&M's eggs by the airstream). So, the poor, long-suffering
> ancistrus got put back in the oscar tank, the female ancistrus and the
corys
> went back to the community tank and all the gravel was carefully removed
> from the new tank and a fine sponge was fitted over the canister intake.
> That was on the 20th of last month. Now I have about 30 baby corys,
starting
> to darken up and get their markings, motoring around the bottom of the
tank,
> with some big ramshorns to eat any food they miss. I'm no longer set up to
> feed them properly like I did when I bred fish for a living, I just fed
them
> flake rubbed through a fine tea-strainer from day one.
>
> Soon I'll put the gravel back in along with the ancistrus, he'll get to
> share his new tank with 30 baby corys instead of a half-dozen adults.
> --
> ~misfit~
>
>

[~misfit~]

D&M wrote:
> By the time I got around to setting up a container for the eggs, and
> locating meth blue, out of all the eggs in the tank, only 1 was left.
> I turned off all the filtration and air searched closely for other,
> but none, so rescued the one egg. Must have busted the shell removing
> it, because when I looked into the container for the egg I'll just
> stuck in there, it was empty and a lil fry swimming around.

Yes, the eggs are toughest just after they are laid. Meth blue isn't
absolutely needed but does help inhibit fungal growth on the eggs.

> They sure
> grow fast. Couple days ago, I couldn't hardly see it, now it's
> actually got the shape of a fish, about 2-3mm size.

They sure do.

> The Cory's are still mating, haven't seen anymore eggs though. Maybe
> they're just practicing for next time.

Feed them well, give them a big water change with cold water (if your other
fish can handle it, lower the heater temp a few degrees temporarilly) a few
days after they have eaten well and they will probably lay again.

What species of corys are they?
--
~misfit~

> "~misfit~" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Rick wrote:
>>> "D&M" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> Well, interesting day, decided I should post, maybe get a question
>>>> answered.
>>>>
>>>> Woke up this morning, and at the top of the tank, in a corner
>>>> behind an airstone "jetstream" there is about 30 small disks stuck
>>>> to the glass (eggs).
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> I'd put money on the eggs belonging to your Corydoras.
>>
>> Gotta agree there. I just went to the trouble of setting up a new
>> tank for my big male ancistrus, he fights my smaller male in my
>> community tank so I put him in with my oscar. The oscar hassled him
>> for a while but hurt her mouth so I figured she'd leave him alone.
>> No such luck, three months later and she still hunts him. I put him
>> in his nice new tank with a canister filter I'd been running on the
>> oscar tank for a few weeks to 'break it in', put in a winsome young
>> female with him and a half-dozen peppered cats (paleatus?).
>>
>> The next afternoon there were about 50 eggs stuck to the glass, in
>> high-flow areas (corydoras always lay their eggs in high oxygen
>> areas, another give-away with D&M's eggs by the airstream). So, the
>> poor, long-suffering ancistrus got put back in the oscar tank, the
>> female ancistrus and the corys went back to the community tank and
>> all the gravel was carefully removed from the new tank and a fine
>> sponge was fitted over the canister intake. That was on the 20th of
>> last month. Now I have about 30 baby corys, starting to darken up
>> and get their markings, motoring around the bottom of the tank, with
>> some big ramshorns to eat any food they miss. I'm no longer set up
>> to feed them properly like I did when I bred fish for a living, I
>> just fed them flake rubbed through a fine tea-strainer from day one.
>>
>> Soon I'll put the gravel back in along with the ancistrus, he'll get
>> to share his new tank with 30 baby corys instead of a half-dozen
>> adults. --
>> ~misfit~