Make that 4 people this week haha ive had 8 different females laying eggs this week alone.
1) Collect the eggs carefully off the glass, place them in a container of water taken from that tank. Use your finger to gently roll them. They look like aeneus eggs, so they won't be overly sticky, just a little.
2) you may keep the container separate or sitting inside the water to keep same temperature.
3) put an airline in the container to keep the water aerated well. Add a few drops of methylene blue or an alder cone to prevent fungus.
4) check couple times a day for fungused eggs and remove these.
5) you can tell if theyre fertile or not by 24 hours after they've been laid. Any that turn bright white are infertile. Best to remove those.
6) they should hatch between 3-5 days depending on species and temperature. Once they hatch, do 90%+ water changes daily on the container, using water taken from the parent tank. Dont feed them right away.
7) 3 days after hatching they can begin being fed baby foods. You can use Hikari First Bites, liquifry, baby brine shrimp, microworms, vinegar eels, etc. Even egg yolk in a pinch. Feed a couple times a day, stay on top of your water changes.
8) at 7 days old, add a thin layer of sand to their container. This increases their survival rate due to the beneficial bacteria in the sand.
continue this regime, steadily increase the foods to crushed flakes and pellets that the adults would eat as they grow.
