Sterbai and gold albino cory

If you've got a breeding project on at the moment, (preferably fish related), let us know and you might even get added to the spawn list..whe....hey!

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Sterbai and gold albino cory

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I have had my first batch of sterbai fry from an original older group of 3 and 5 new smaller ones. I think the pair spawning were the larger ones and was rewarded with 86 eggs :o

There has been quite a die off, not sure if thats normal with them as not bred cories before, but now have approximately 30 that are a week old now :D

Also have one single gold albino cory fry from 3 eggs I managed to save from a small spawn. These gold albinos are thrown from peppered corys and I have 3 original adults from a friend who originally owned them and had to shut his fish house down due to ill health. These 3 have spawned a few times now and the eggs only seem to produce gold albino fry but they are very delicate and so far out of only 10 viable fry I have one :roll:

Little Billy is in with the sterbai but a week behind them at 2 days old :D
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I found sterbai fry to be some of the more difficult corys to raise. Mine would spawn on their onw in a community tank where the eggs had to be pulled or eaten. I tried close to half a dozen times, got them to hatch but by the end of 30 days none were left.

I finally took it as a personal challenge and they were the first fish I deliberately set out to spawn so I could get some fry past 1 month. I finally did by paying close attention to water quality and vaccuming right after feedings.

I got 4 to about three month when I put them into a tank with a pair of P nicholsi who promptly did em all in.
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Hi theres a book by Ian Fuller on breeding and raising all Corys. It may give you some tips on raising sterbai fry

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I still have approx 30 sterbai fry left from the 86 eggs and the little gold one all growing nicely since I swapped to 50% water changes daily :D

Met Ian Fuller a couple of times and very nice chap he is too, might have to get his book :D
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