A Few Questions on My New Planted Tank

[TylerAquatics]

Hmmm... You could just take those leaves off with the eggs depending on how many leaves have them

If they are on the java fern, could they not be spores?

.....haha Essjay got there first

Those spots are sporangia, a normal part of a fern.

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They are not snail eggs.
Mystery snails lay eggs above the water line in clusters which look like dense bunches of grapes.
Pest snails lay eggs looking like little dots in a strip of clear jelly
Malaysian trumpet snails give birth to live young.

Here is a pic of the leaves I took out.

 

[Essjay]

Those on my java ferns have always been brown.

There are no snails which lay eggs in such a precise pattern on a leaf. I've watched one of my nerites laying eggs on the back wall of my tank where I can't reach them and the eggs just appeared as the nerite crawled along wherever she was wandering in a random pattern.

 

[Myraan]

Go for a walk in a forest, terrestrial ferns with broad leaves will have those knobbly bits.

 

[Rocky998]

I could very well be wrong... But it does look like some sort of egg just missing the jelly around it. All the spots Ive seen on java ferns have been darker and flat, completely.

 

[Rocky998]

Go for a walk in a forest, terrestrial ferns with broad leaves will have those knobbly bits.

Ive honestly never seen them lol

 

[Rocky998]

Ive honestly never seen them lol

But it looked like eggs to me

 

[Rocky998]

Out of the water they look different... Its alien to me now lol

 

[Myraan]

I think the plant is pot bound so it "thinks" it might die so it's getting ready to chuck out lots of spores.

 

[Rocky998]

I think the plant is pot bound so it "thinks" it might die so it's getting ready to chuck out lots of spores.

Hmmm, that is very interesting... I never knew they did that.

 

[TylerAquatics]

I think the plant is pot bound so it "thinks" it might die so it's getting ready to chuck out lots of spores.

Interesting. Thank you all for the help. I called a friend who is also into fish and he said it was normal too. The ferns are all in pots. Should I plant them in the substrate instead?

 

[Rocky998]

Interesting. Thank you all for the help. I called a friend who is also into fish and he said it was normal too. The ferns are all in pots. Should I plant them in the substrate instead?

No, java ferns can actually be tied with fishing line to rocks or driftwood and the roots will wrap around it. This I 100% know lol. Also, sorry for the mis- info earlier. I really thought they were eggs. I guess we both learned something

 

[Myraan]

No, java ferns can actually be tied with fishing line to rocks or driftwood and the roots will wrap around it. This I 100% know lol. Also, sorry for the mis- info earlier. I really thought they were eggs. I guess we both learned something

Yes sorry that was what I was getting at - I should have been more clear..... the rhizome being buried in soggy glass wool is probably just as harmful as being buried in sand. I've seen that Aquarium Co-op warehouse on youtube.... it's probably safe to say it wasn't sat in their tank excessively - they seem to get lots of deliveries and such

 

[Essjay]

Ooh I missed that it was in a pot

Java fern has a rhizome, a thick horizontal stem-like thing which has leaves growing out of one side and roots out of the opposite side. The rhizome rots if it is covered - either by substrate or soggy rockwool as Myraan said.
Java fern is usually grown attached to decor. Either glued (cyanoacrylate superglue) on or tied on - I use sewing thread.

 

[TylerAquatics]

No, java ferns can actually be tied with fishing line to rocks or driftwood and the roots will wrap around it. This I 100% know lol. Also, sorry for the mis- info earlier. I really thought they were eggs. I guess we both learned something

All good man scared me a bit though

Yes sorry that was what I was getting at - I should have been more clear..... the rhizome being buried in soggy glass wool is probably just as harmful as being buried in sand. I've seen that Aquarium Co-op warehouse on youtube.... it's probably safe to say it wasn't sat in their tank excessively - they seem to get lots of deliveries and such

Ooh I missed that it was in a pot

Java fern has a rhizome, a thick horizontal stem-like thing which has leaves growing out of one side and roots out of the opposite side. The rhizome rots if it is covered - either by substrate or soggy rockwool as Myraan said.
Java fern is usually grown attached to decor. Either glued (cyanoacrylate superglue) on or tied on - I use sewing thread.

I'm not at home at the moment, but when I am, you guys will have to show me what you mean. There's this kind of base circle root kind of thing on the bottom. I've gotten a Java before and tried to get it on driftwood but it was a disaster. Is it possible to attach it to something else like on the gravel substrate so they can remain in the back of the tank?

 

[Byron]

I concur with everything @Essjay has posted here. Spores, and don't bury the rhizome. Java Fern (Microsorum pteropus) or any variety of the same should be attached to wood or rock, or decor, either with black cotton thread or if the wood/rock has a crevice, it is good to carefully wedge the rhizome (part of it) in that. The fern will "root" onto the wood/rock, and often send black roots down to the substrate.