Killi Me Softly Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Was able to finally get 6 beautiful little Tiger Badis. Heavy planted 20g. 3 pygmy cory, 1 Otto, and about 30 neo skittles. Feeding scuds, live black worms, frozen brine and daphnia. Will these little dudes colony breed? I'm set up with mops fry boxes and grow out space if necessary, but I'd really like to just let them be and watch them do their thing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowells Fish Lab Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Do you have any that you are confident are female? If so I'd love to see a picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killi Me Softly Posted February 26, 2022 Author Share Posted February 26, 2022 This is what I believe to be my female. Have 2 that look like this. Devoid of almost all color. Slightly different body than the colored up males. Bad pic, they are still a little shy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd Duck Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 (edited) I’ve not kept Pygmy cories, but my bronze cories don’t have many babies survive, even when they were in a species only tank. It wasn’t a fertility thing since eggs that got accidentally transferred produced 12 babies. When those babies were transferred back into the species tank, they did just fine at only a couple weeks old. I would suspect that Pygmy cories might eat tiny hatchlings. Otos might even eat tiny hatchlings, I know they will eat blackworms and whiteworms. I’ve heard that neos will mostly leave eggs alone, some even use them as nursemaids for eggs, and I would expect them to leave any hatchlings alone. Edit to say I clearly posted this in the wrong thread. Sorry! 😆 🤦🏻♀️ 🤷🏻♀️ OK, time to stop for me. I did post in the right place. Edited February 27, 2022 by Odd Duck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modified lung Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 I had 2 black tiger badis in a tall 6 gallon for a month or so with maybe 8 stems of Elodea and got 6 babies. With 3 males 2 females in a 20 gal tall thick with hornwort, I got about 70 babies over a few months. I just scooped them out when they got big enough to notice. Adults don't seem to eat the newly hatched but I have a strong suspicion the juveniles do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killi Me Softly Posted February 27, 2022 Author Share Posted February 27, 2022 On 2/25/2022 at 9:04 PM, Lowells Fish Lab said: Do you have any that you are confident are female? If so I'd love to see a picture Fairly sure this is one of my females. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowells Fish Lab Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 @Killi Me Softly Thanks for the photos, that's perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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