Can Cory Eggs Survive In A Community Tank?

I've just found some albino Cory eggs stuck to the side of my internal filter! The tank has harlequin rasboras, albino corys and a dwarf gourami, and is heavily planted. The eggs have not been eaten for at least 24 hours. I don't particularly want to breed them but wouldn't mind a couple of fry surviving. Is this possible without moving them? Ive read up on breeding them and don't have any of the kit to do a proper fry rescue set up eg airstones, breeder nets etc. I do have a spare 7.5g quarantine tank though, bit worry I might damage the eggs by moving them.

 

Some may survive but often in a community the eggs get eaten before they hatch. If some hatch they may have a chance of survival if they have plenty of places to hide, but if you really want to have some make it then I’d remove the eggs & rear them separately.
The eggs are surprisingly robust as long as you aren’t too heavy handed, you can roll them on to your finger or if you have some moss use a clump of that to roll over the eggs, they should then stick to it.

 

it is better to move them to a diffrent tank u can handel the eggs if ur hands are wet I have breed them be for and done that

 

I had my albino cories lay eggs twice in my community tank. They did not get eaten, but by the 3rd day, they were getting pretty fungus-y. So I removed them both times. They probably would do better in their own tank if you have the time and space.

 

every so often I get a new cory from one of my tanks. Naturally happens with panda and spotted. My tanks have lots of hiding places.

 

I love Cory cats that's so exciting! How many do you have? I read that you need large groups to hope for eggs..

 

Thanks everyone! I can set up my QT and move them there, but it has a small internal filter (the Eheim Pickup 45). I hope this won't suck any fry up?

Megviolet I have 6, I think there are 4-5 females within there. It is very exciting!

 

I love Cory cats that's so exciting! How many do you have? I read that you need large groups to hope for eggs..

I have 2 females and 1 male and I get eggs! I wish they’d stop!

 

In the last 2 months I have had 5 new albino corydora fry survive. 2 of them survived for about 10 days in the main tank before I noticed. The other 3, I pulled out the eggs from the tank, and put them in a small qt tank. I started with 10 surviving fry once they hatched, and ended up with 3 at the end.

I would use a sponge filter in the qt. To protect the fry. Also you will need to do daily 50-60% water changes. You will also need to have fry food when they hatch.

 

a majority of corys can survie if they have plenty of hiding places like java moss and other tall plants.

 

OK so I decided to play it safe and move them to my quarantine tank. I found some more on a leaf so just broke off the leaf and put the whole thing in the QT. There is a filter with good flow and a heater set to 24 C (75F) which is what I keep the main tank at.

The eggs are about 3 days old now. No fungus. They have gone a more tan colour (were initially white/clear) - not exactly dark though - is that a good sign? I can't really get a good photo