corydoras melini

[sskruzr]

I bought 5 of these from SD a few months and finally got around to setting them up in a species tank. It's an antique angle iron frame tank that I got off Ebay last year, about 12 gallons. I placed a Coralife 28w strip light on it, fit perfectly, and filtered it with a Whisper Jr, and temp is set at around 75 degrees, with a play sand substrate. I put in a few plants mainly java moss and hygro. I started dumping blackworms in last week, not knowing if anything would happen as I'm pretty sure it's one female and 4 males. Well last night they spawned and there's eggs scattered around the tank. Seems they scatter individual eggs around the tank instead of small batches.
Question is, do I remove the adults? Do I remove the eggs and incubate? Hopefully this won't be the only spawn from this bunch.

[dennysfishroom]

I've had both ways work, but neither resulted in a large percentage of hatch. Good luck. Denny

[mewickham]

I'd remove the adults.

[sskruzr]

Well these guys spawned again. The blackworms are doing the trick. I didn't remove the adults just to see of something would turn up. Friday night I thought something moving on the bottom, hard to tell with all the java moss, but it's confirmed, there's at least 2 in there swimming around. I put some microworms in there every once in a while.

[mewickham]

How, cool! Baby cory cats are so cute. They look like little tadpoles with whiskers and are often marked dramatically differently than adults.