Nancy K Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 The great Texas freeze 🥶 of 2021 that I thought for sure would wipe put my tank gave me Panda babies instead!! First successful spawn of my fishkeeping life and it was on accident but I am so happy. I give all the credit to nature and what I learned on the Aquarium Coop channel and blogs - for guiding me into planted tanks which I am sure helped them survive our five days without electricity (their water was 58 degrees when we got power back and I took the blankets off to “deal with the bodies” and found everyone alive on the bottom of the tank.) About a week ago I was throwing some food in there and something squiggled by the skull cave and I looked closer and it was a tiny panda cory! I freaked LOL. A week later there are two (that survived the predation - I had noticed a few weeks ago those harlequin rasboras were looking real real good....) My setup is 20g tall, pool filter sand substrate, java fern plants, Stingray Finnex light on an 8 hour timer, heater and an airstone. The tank is 14 months old and my six adult pandas were juveniles when I started the tank and reared together. My two babies are already swimming together and eating with the adults. 8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 cool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 Baby Pandas are so fun. When I finally got some my wife finally decided the fish tanks are okay. We started with 6 from Aqua Huna, up to 23 spread over 3 tanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nancy K Posted May 12, 2021 Author Share Posted May 12, 2021 That is great to hear! I honestly don’t know what they were eating between hatching and finishing their egg sacs and when I spotted them already with adult coloring. That tank has a lot of mulm in the java fern jungle so maybe that? I hope they are out of the woods and I can rear them to adulthood. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshinebluemoon Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 I love baby Panda Cory I think they are the cutest fish. The tiny babies so cute. Congratulations 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 50 minutes ago, Nancy K said: I hope they are out of the woods and I can rear them to adulthood. I'll bet they are fine now, they already made it past the hard part. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric R Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 I've often heard that a cooler water change during a storm can induce corydoras to spawn. I wonder if that was part of the cause here? Anyways, congratulations!! Cory babies are very cute. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenman Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 I've got two older male Panda Cories and I've got six more Panda Cories coming from Aqua Huna this week to hopefully get a few females to add to the mix. It'll be a few months before I know if there are any females, but with any luck come the fall I may have them breeding. It may be next spring depending on the age/size of the new ones. I'm anticipating them being a bit small. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmedByFish Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 I can tell this is an awesome story, but I can't quite tell what it is! Is getting cold what triggered the spawning? So the babies are the silver lining of the TX freeze? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWilson Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 so cute! also LOL the fish taco truck decoration! 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nancy K Posted May 13, 2021 Author Share Posted May 13, 2021 59 minutes ago, CalmedByFish said: I can tell this is an awesome story, but I can't quite tell what it is! Is getting cold what triggered the spawning? So the babies are the silver lining of the TX freeze? Yes with the heater in the tank powerless and no heat in the house the water got very cold and I think that was what spawned them. I didn't know I had fry or babies until last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nancy K Posted May 13, 2021 Author Share Posted May 13, 2021 23 minutes ago, SWilson said: so cute! also LOL the fish taco truck decoration! 😁 Thank you! I love that taco truck decoration so much - here it is with the sign, also hilarious 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWilson Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 Amazing! Living proof that a thriving ecosystem tank that produces babies (non-livebearers! without human intervention!) doesn't have to take itself too seriously. ❤️😂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmedByFish Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 1 hour ago, Nancy K said: Yes with the heater in the tank powerless and no heat in the house the water got very cold and I think that was what spawned them. That is astonishing to me. I remember crying for people and their fish as that was happening. This is the first I've heard of the situation creating life instead of killing. Beautiful. Love it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nancy K Posted May 14, 2021 Author Share Posted May 14, 2021 On 5/12/2021 at 11:10 PM, CalmedByFish said: That is astonishing to me. I remember crying for people and their fish as that was happening. This is the first I've heard of the situation creating life instead of killing. Beautiful. Love it. Thank you. It was a really rough time and we were so fortunate. I was sure after day 3 or so when I finally unwrapped the tank it would be a total loss but everyone made it including the 3 nerite snails and the two surviving harlequins. The water temp was 58 which I thought should have surely killed the rasboras. I have named them Frosty and Freeze hehe and I love nothing more than watching them grow and get bolder in their free swimming. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nancy K Posted June 3, 2021 Author Share Posted June 3, 2021 About a week ago I found/saw two more baby corys. But they were and are much smaller than my first two babies I originally posted about. Is there any way to know if they were part of the same spawn? I finally got a pic of them side by side today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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