Corydoras semiaquilus blackperu spawning success

[Woody]

Well after months of having spawns eaten by the male, I finally have success. This afternoon I am pulling eggs out of the spawning mop, I am guessing somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 eggs, and they are relatively small for such a large corydoras.

Now for the fun part, growing them out.

Woody

[Aiglos]

Congrats Woody !!!!!!!

Its that time of year !

how are you growing them out? Anything special?

[Aiglos]

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/callicht/corydora/494_F.PHP

Maybe you should add some info on them to planet catfish woody.

[babblefish1960]

Congratulations Woody on becoming a surrogate mother to 400 corys.

By the way, what is your spawning mop made out of?

[Seanc]

thats great! 400 thats alot of little fish. good luck growing them out!

[Woody]

Thanks for the encouragement everyone, I also pulled about 200 Corydoras Pygmaeus eggs today, I missed them because they were on the underside of the java moss. There's fungus on most of them, but the eggs are still tan in colour. Hopefully I can save them.
Lots of fungicide and regular water changes.
I use 100% acrylic yarn green in colur I purchased from Zellers. 1.98 a roll and it makes three spawning mops. Ijust boil them for a minute and they sink. I have to make some more as my Adolphi, narcissus and sterbai are so gravid they look like they will burst.

Aiglos  I remove the eggs and hatch them in tupperware containers about 2 inches deep. Keep them there until they are freeswimming and over the few days change their water over to regular tapwater parameters. I use soft acid water for spawning.
I am setting up a series of ten gallons in my kitchen, 5 or 6, and will keep them there for the next month or so, gradually deepening the water from 2 inches up to six inches, or to the point I can get a filter in.
Then grow them to about 1 inch when they should be save for 20 gallon longs.

I should write up an article for Planetcatfish as I have experimented with these fish for the last six months, I have two trios in two seperate aquariums and only have spawnings from the ones in an unheated aquarium.

Woody

[Fishysan]

Hi ya Woody,

If you do raise sterbai - let me know, I'll take 20+ off your hands (not ready for them yet, but you probably don't have them yet either ).

Hope the semis are doing well!

Cheers.

[babblefish1960]

So how has this exercise panned out? Have you had any further developments with this little corydoras?