Cory Fry And What Can I Do To Keep Them Alive

My Cory's laid some eggs today and I have moved the eggs into a floating breeder. What can I feed the babies to keep them alive when the hatch?

 

Corey fry aren't very particular with their appetite. If its small enough they will eat it. I've used various over the counter powder fry food, frozen baby brine shrimp, microworm cultures, even smashed up hard boiled chicken egg yolk. I had the highest survival rate by moving the eggs to an established tank that was heavy with hornwort, java moss and pothos. I fed them very little and they just foraged on micro life that had already established in the tank.
Is the breeder a pass-through container or a net?
Good luck with them and don't get discouraged if you lose a bunch of eggs or the fry. It can take a few tries to get them from egg to viable fingerling.

 

Hello, I use a couple of shrimp pellets desolved in tank water(use a babys nasal suction bulb to feed). I also placed a sm java fern in breeding net so I could squirt food in roots. That way they have something to eat while at work. Hope this helps!

 

Corey fry aren't very particular with their appetite. If its small enough they will eat it. I've used various over the counter powder fry food, frozen baby brine shrimp, microworm cultures, even smashed up hard boiled chicken egg yolk. I had the highest survival rate by moving the eggs to an established tank that was heavy with hornwort, java moss and pothos. I fed them very little and they just foraged on micro life that had already established in the tank.
Is the breeder a pass-through container or a net?
Good luck with them and don't get discouraged if you lose a bunch of eggs or the fry. It can take a few tries to get them from egg to viable fingerling.

It is a pass through container.

 

Be sure there is enough flow through it to oxygenate the eggs but not enough to knock em loose. if you haven't already addressed that add an airstone to it or under it. Be sure to monitor it closely for white fuzzy eggs and remove them quickly or the fungus will move from nonfertiized eggs onto live ones and kill them. The newly hatched will live on their yolk sacks and won't be free swimming so don't add so much current that they get blasted out of the nursery and get eaten. Once they are free swimming you'll need to keep them contained and can begin feeding the food of your choice.