Fish eggs?

57spook

57spook

57spook
Mar 1, 2008
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Hi! I've never posted here but am an avid reader--I love this site! My question is, I think I have some fish eggs on the side of my 35g hex tank and don't know what to do with them. I've had them before but our Pleco "Brutus" ate them all I think. I would like to do something about them if possible before he spots them. Anyway, I have 3 Mickey Mouse platies and 2 Red Wag platies, 3 corydoras, 1 betta and 1 small common pleco. Platies are live-bearing, aren't they? I'm thinking the eggs are the corys'. I have a picture included and would like to know if I should scrape the eggs off and put them in like the cup the betta came in. I could leave it floating in the tank so it maintains temperature. Or should I just leave it to nature? One of our corys did just "appear" a few years ago--we had 2 and then all of a sudden there was a teeny tiny 3rd one! Please let me know what to do--thanks for your help in advance!

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theyr the cory eggs. you probly could move them to the cup and float it in the the tank

Remove the parents or the eggs. Use a single-edged razor blade to (carefully) slice off the eggs after they harden and put them in a half-filled pre-prepared tank. Newborn catlets make very tasty snacks.
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Cory eggs - To remove them, take a scalpel or other sharp blade and slice carefully along the glass. Take your time. I've crushed a couple by doing that.

The best thing to do would be to put them in a small container. This way you could add certain meds to help prevent fungus, and you could feed them better. Try to get some water circulation on them, to help minimize fungus growth. They should hatch in 4-5 days. For the first couple of days they have a yoke sac to live off of. After they have no visible yoke sack, you can feed them. BBS works well I've heard, but powdered (litterally) flakes and liquid fry food can be used too (although there could be increased chances of starvation and slower growth. BBS is the way to go).

Once they get big enough, give them bigger foods. After a few months, you'll have a bunch of little cories if everything works out well. Mind if I ask what kind of cories you have? :)
 
This is so exciting! I did scrape off maybe 2 dozen eggs and while I was doing that, they laid more on another side of the tank! I filled the cup maybe 1/2 to 2/3 full of the tank water and am leaving it floating. How soon do things happen? My poor betta, Patriot is having flashbacks I think with the cup floating in the tank. I am sure he is glad to be on the other side of the cup now. I have 3 other aquariums to distribute the babies if I get any, so I don't need to worry about overcrowding the 35g. Please let me know what else I need/should do :)
 
Do you have any small aquariums (2-5 gallons) lying around, or any small containers? It will be easier to maintain them if they have a little tank of their own.
 
thats very cool. My cories haven't spawned, atleast not that I've seen.
 
Nice and well fed bronze cories you have there. Corydoras aenus. Looks like a male and female, the female being the larger, fatter of the two. Now you know how you got that other one.
 
Thank you!! I do have an old 10g out in the garage, I could clean it up and put a used filter sponge in the filter for the bacteria to start cycling, would that work ok?
 
Yes, that would be perfect. For now, you may want to get a breeder net and put it beside the filter so the eggs get a lot of flow, which helps protect from fungus. Do you have any plants? A wadd of java moss would help trap food.
 
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