stillnzcookie Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 At least, I'm assuming they are pretty happy, as they have babies :love: We've spotted at least four babies so far - two are now about 10mm long, one is about 7mm, and one is TINY - it actually looks more like a tadpole than a cory, and would only be 2-3mm long. I'm guessing that we might end up with more, as long as the water conditions stay to their liking, so I have a couple of questions: I usually do a weekly water change, but hadn't done one for over a month - as all the fish were obviously thriving, I'm guessing I could go to doing one a fortnight (we have quite a lot of plants in our tank, so nitrates have never been an issue)? It was fascinating watching the cories going for it straight after a big water change - I thought one was attacking another, until I figured out what they were doing :oops: We have a 60L tank, with 6 panda cories (plus babies, so now at least 10), 4 harlequin rasboras, 3 dwarf neon rainbowfish and 9 or 10 ember tetras (we bought 10, but I've only ever been able to count 9). So our tank is already at capacity - the harlequins are about 5 years old, and the rest of them have died, so when we bought the tetras we sort of assumed we wouldn't have them much longer, but they're still going strong! I realise that baby cories won't add too much to the bioload, but how big should they be before we rehome them? I'm trying to persuade hubby to set up a second tank, with just cories and a siamese fighter, but if I can't bring him round, we'll eventually have to get rid of some of them. I'm very excited about having baby fish again - some of the adults we have now were born in the tank a few years ago, so we must be doing something right! I had forgotten how much fun it is to play "count the cories" at feeding time :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexyay Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Woohoo! Corykittens! New water may introduce good minerals for the fish & plants but on my heavily planted tank I tend to do WCs every fortnight as nitrates have never been an issue there either. Although for stocking levels you may just want to do regular WCs - because they're the only bottom dweller you have I probably wouldn't worry about space issues, only bioload issues. I'd say they'd be fine, provided you're OK with doing slightly larger or more frequent water changes c: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrazyGeoff Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 Awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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