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Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)

Hi,

John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.

I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.

With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.

I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.

If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.

I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.

I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.

Thank you
Darragh Sherwin

help my cory cats are laying eggs

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11 Jan 2010 03:15 #1 by bigfish 15 (richard mcnulty)
can some one tell me what i need to do to rear cory cats,laying eggs all over rearing/quarintine tank ,haw long till hatch then what do i do to rear fry ,the tank is a juwel 125 litre tank.

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11 Jan 2010 11:17 #2 by JohnH (John)
Firstly can we establish what type of Corys you have?
In the meantime they should, if one of the more 'common' types, have stopped laying by now.

Are there other fish in the tank? - They, and the Corys, are very adept at eating the eggs so you will really need either to remove the fish or the eggs. The latter option isn't as daunting a task as it might at first sound. You can either remove them from the glass/filters etc with something like a sharp razor blade or, if your nails aren't trimmed too low, pick them off that way.
When the eggs are a few hours old the 'shell' hardens and they become quite manageable.
I note that you have them in a quarantine tank so hopefully they will be the only fish in it. Then you'll just be able to remove/isolate the Catfish and leave the eggs to hatch naturally...
They ought to start hatching after the third day but there will be absolutely no need to try to feed them for at least two, probably three days afterwards as the little fry at first feed off the nourishment within the yolk sac.
Afetr you see them actually swimming around 'grubbing' for food you can then start to feed them (tiny amounts at first) of either commercially available fry food or you can crumble some flake to a powdery consistency and use that.
Spotless water conditions are an absolute must - as is so with all fry - so small daily water changes become an 'essential'.

Good luck with the eggs, keep the Forum informed of how things are progressing.

John

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N. Tipp

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11 Jan 2010 11:32 #3 by sheag35 (Seamus Gillespie)
recently bred cory similas and cory sterbae and as john said took eggs out into a seperate hatching tank a little 16l tank with a little methaline blue and an almond leaf and they hatch fine fed them liquid fry food from day 3 to day 7 and then live armetia with a little hbh fry food and they are thriving... best of luck with them ps what type of corys you breeding???

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11 Jan 2010 12:04 #4 by Viperbot (Jason Hughes)
Might also be a good idea to keep the breeding tank as dark as possible. Eggs are highly susceptible to fungus and keeping the tank dimly lit might help. Keep us informed on how it goes.

Jay

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