I have 'invisible' baby cories!

I'm on a laptop hun not a mobile or ipad etc.

This might work! Lets try

yey it worked!!

here's the next photo!

Ha I see it. How cute.

he/she is still incredibly tiny - as you can probably tell comparing him with the heater end and the sponge filter. I've yet to see him eat anything but looking at the second photo you can see he is eating cos he's got a fat tummy!

I'm currently dipping a pipette into his water and then into the baby food and then adding tiny amounts to his tank. I'm also changing his water every other day. He doesn't like being caught and ousted from his tank while I do this but it's for his own safety. He's got a right attitude on him. When I add him back after the water change he sits at the front for a second and I swear he's giving me evils!

Lol. He/she already has attitude!

I thought it might be time for an updated photo of this little fish and my has he/she grown!




It's been living in a 30 litre tank that I divided into two with a glass pane years ago. The small side holds 6 litres of water (the glass pane doesn't go right to the top so I can only part fill it) and is tiny. The larger side holds 2 and a half buckets so that's about 19 litres and today I've moved this little fish into the larger side to give it more room.

We now know for sure it's a palmeri tetra but now it's a case of sexing. The male palmeri is bright purple/blue with a bright blue eye and fancy trident tail. The female is more purple/green in colour and has a yellow/green eye with not trident tail.

This little fry is looking more green currently and the eye is looking yellow now so I'm leaning towards a female now. I'm actually hoping for a female and then it can go into my big tank once large enough not to be eaten by the angels!

coming on nicely

thank you I've actually witnessed it eating over the last couple of days. Previously it was just too small so I presumed it was eating microscopic stuff from the moss and sponge filter. Now it's actively going after the tetraMin baby food so it should come on in leaps and bounds now

So glad to hear your baby is growing and thriving. Looking forward to more pics.

I'll keep updating as it grows.

I've now got the full 30 litre tank out of the cupboard and found some gravel and some stones for decor. I'll see what I can scrounge from the main tank in a plant and the little thing can have a proper home until big enough to either go into my main tank or be moved on (depending on sex)

Post pic of his new improved home when set up please.

well the little baby is no longer so little. He's actually looking like the fish he's going to be now. There's now a hint of a change in eye colour. Hence the 'he'. I was hoping for a 'she' and to begin with the eye's were yellow/green in colour but today there's a hint of blue. It's still early days and I might still get lucky and it might be a she. I'm now watching signs of the tail extending. If I see the centre point extending then I know I've got a male and not the female I was hoping for.

He/she is still very feisty. He/she darts round the tank now so fast that getting photo's is not longer easy! He/she is just too quick!

Anyway, enough waffle here's some photo's that I did manage to capture







and one of his little home for endlessendlers

Wow what a transformation. He/she is doing well. Keep us informed.

thanks, I will. I love watching baby fish develop. I'm still shocked that this little fella survived from such a miniscule size! I must have a gift or something lol

well I have more eggs (shame it's not angelfish eggs!) I woke up to a clutch of around a dozen on the glass. Some had been eaten and they were just starting to harden so getting them off the glass was fun! I've managed to get 8 into a pot with an airstone. Again, they look like cory eggs but we've been here before! We shall see what hatches - if anything

Good luck

thanks Rob! I'll be interested to see what comes out if they hatch. I'm still confused as to how I got the tetra baby from what looked like cory eggs!. If these are tetra eggs they then break with the traditional egg scattering of that type of fish and they are blooming big eggs for such a small fish ... ouch is all I can say lol

I'll keep things updated

the time has come now to let the baby tetra go. I've checked on it again today and got a good close up and it is definitely male. His fancy trident tail is just starting to develop and now that I have these eggs and need to make space for them I'm going to have to say bye bye to him.

I've just messaged my lfs to ask if they have room for him in the store and I'm waiting for a reply.

I'm feeling rather sad

Finally the title of this thread makes sense! I have baby cories - although not invisable!

These were them hatching late last night



And a clearer photo




I have 6 in total and I'm certain they are panda cories even though the eggs were laid during the night. Before I went to the bed on the night the eggs were laid I had a male and female panda displaying breeding behaviour. In the morning I woke up to eggs on the glass. Also in the close up of the newly hatched fry there looks to be a dark stripe over the head and eye area so based on those things I'm going with 6 new panda cories.

These will be going to my lfs once ready. I already have 6 panda's, I don't need any more

wonderful!

I never fail to get excited over baby cories. I am an official mad cory woman lol

well .... yesterday was a bad day. Yesterday I found four of the six babies dead. I was pretty deverstated. One other was looking weak so I got my other small 18" tank out of the shed. This tank is seperated into two compartments by a glass pane that I took out of an old photo frame. I've always used this little tank for baby cories ... eggs in one side, growing out babies in the other.

So I filled the slightly smaller side (the side I normally use for eggs) as it seemed pointless filling the larger compartment for 2 babies. I added the sponge filter, the moss ball and java moss clump and the babies. This morning I got up to another body ... the weak one hadn't made it.

So now I have a tank with one baby again. I'm feeling seriously dispondent. But this baby deserves the same chance I gave to the little mystery baby that turned out to be a palmeri tetra! So far, it's swimming strongly and that is a good sign. It's also grown so that's another good sign.




So for now, I'm hoping the panda's get busy again ... and soon. Raising a single cory isn't ideal.

I've been advised to add some leaf litter to increase infusoria and so I'm heading out to an oak tree that I know of that is well away from the road and polution and see if it will provide me with a few leaves from it's trusty branches.

hahaha! Guess what I've just spotted in my main tank?! .... another tiny baby palmeri tetra swimming around in the plants. It's tiny, I'd guess it's about 2 or 3 weeks old. I can see it's lateral line ... it's about as big as a new born platy. This is what happens when you allow your tank to turn into a jungle!

So now my baby cory has got company. It may not be company of it's own kind but keeping this little tank running now seems worthwhile. After feeling a wee bit down over losing the majority of the cories this was the pick me up I needed.

good luck with them both