Rick - Cory eggs

"RedForeman ©®" wrote in message
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Rick, thanks for your help on the cories, they've continued to lay eggs
about every 4 days now.... it seems that they are pushed into spreading
eggs when water is changed, and I'm still unable to tell if I have 1M or
2M... total of 3... but one is VERY much bigger... I'm hoping that's the
male... but are all cory's as hard to sex???? Actually, I've never been
able
to sex a cory... any ideas how to tell???

The larger one, does have a larger rear section, more parelell tops and
bottom behind the dorsal fin, but can't find anything online, even at
planetcatfish that mentions how to sex a cory...

btw, they are bronze/green cories...

The eggs have filled up with little white dots, and can now see the spine,
any ideas on what's next? what should they 'live' in?? a tank with 2 in of
water isn't feasible, but if necessary, LFS I go....

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RedForeman ©®
Sorry about the troll, the ball is rolling there....
Thank you for your cooperation!



Red, the big one will be the female. When you look at Corydoras especially
from above the female will always be the bigger, fatter fish. It's a good
ratio to have a couple of males to one female. Right now I have peppered
Cory, Baianinho 11, Aspidora,& gossei eggs hatching. You have two options,
either remove the parents and leave the eggs or remove the eggs. With the
exception of gossei and hastatus I remove the eggs to a hatching container
which is simply a Tupperware container with a couple of inches of r/o water
in it. I add meth. blue to prevent fungus. My peppered corydoras just
hatched today in water that was 68 degrees in that little container however
after hatching I remove the egg shells (very important) and then place the
container in one of my tanks which will keep the water temp around 73-74
degrees. The yolk sac is usually used up after 3 days and you can begin
feeding freshly hatched brine shrimp removing any uneaten food within 30
minutes of feeding and topping up the container with fresh water. You can
add an air stone if you like with a gentle air flow however from my
experience it is not really needed providing you do frequent little water
changes. I'll send you an article I did on hatching Aspidoras eggs for our
local aquarium society off list and it may help.

Rick