Are these eggs?

[Beckett]

Howdy, have had 14 cory cats (6 bronze, 6 pepper) in my new 38 gallon for about 3 weeks now. I notice what looks like eggs at the too corner of my tank about 1.5 - 2 inches below the water line. I am attaching photos. Does anyone know of these are in fact eggs? I am worried they are snail eggs in which case I want to remove them. But if they are eggs from the corys I supposed I can just leave them?

 

[Fishy_Wishy6]

Personally I think they are Cory eggs as they are usually laid higher up on the tank walls. But I don’t have much expeirience with Cory cats. Do you know if there is a male in the tank? I know that sometimes they can lay unfertilized eggs. And no, i don’t think they’re snail eggs, snail eggs are usually inside of some sort of sack. Thanks for the question. Here is an example of snail eggs

 

[mbsqw1d]

Look like Cory eggs to me, fertilised ones at that (they are more orange-brown in colour)

 

[mbsqw1d]

You can just leave them there if you're not interested in raising the fry as they'll just get eaten. If they aren't eaten after a day or too, check for fungus and remove if there is. Otherwise, they may just hatch by themselves.... and then be eaten by your corys

 

[Aussie_Bristle]

Definitely fertile Cory eggs.. congrats

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Yes, they are Sort eggs, congrats!

 

[Beckett]

Thanks! So I decided I will give raising the fry a shot, since this is a super cool surprise in my still very new tank. But I don’t have a breeder box to seperate the eggs. I did order one off amazon, should be here tomorrow. For mow I am blocking tje eggs by taping my little green aquarium net (for transferring fish) to the side of the tank to block the eggs. However this forces me to keep half the tank lid open. Do I need to worry about the corys jumping out of the tank?

 

[Beckett]

Also here are a couple photos of the open tank lid

 

[Shiverz]

Cory's normally don't jump out of tanks without a reason, such as being chased, or frightened. I don't think you have to worry there. Though if you're still paranoid maybe you could put a little cling film over the top?

I love your work with the net, that type of thinking is right up my alley. Just make sure it's tight enough to the glass and a little Cory can't get in there and get stuck.

Congratulations on breeding

 

[mbsqw1d]

Also here are a couple photos of the open tank lid

You can carefully remove the eggs and perhaps have them in the bottom of the net, you can have that hanging over the side of your tank and bring the lid down then

 

[Beckett]

Update! I got a net breeder at Petco and transferred the four remaining eggs into it. Since it is such a small amount I highly doubt anything will come of it, but at least now I have some supplies ready in case they spawn again. So cool! Thanks for helping identify them everyone!

 

[Beckett]

Photo of the setup

 

[Beckett]

Another 24 new eggs today! Transferred to the box as soon as I saw them. They actually stuck them to the outside of the box!

 

[Derekshatch]

Ya mine have done that before too, it makes it realley easy to get them off.