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hi just started to do a water change and there are about 30 eggs not sure whose but either danios or cory but they are located at the top of my tank and stuck to the glass, they are about 0.5mm and yellowish colour. who is the likely culprit?
thank
Lloyd
 
hi just started to do a water change and there are about 30 eggs not sure whose but either danios or cory but they are located at the top of my tank and stuck to the glass, they are about 0.5mm and yellowish colour. who is the likely culprit?
thank
Lloyd

That would be the cories :good:
 
Yes Cory lay sticky eggs all over the tank in bunches. I if you want to keep them and try raising them you wil have to remover either the parents and any other fish in there or remove the eggs to a different tank. Cories will eat there eggs.
 
thank that was my next question but i dont have any where to put the fish
or eggs some have been eaten but every time i look in the tank i seen a new
patch somwhere else so probs got about 150 eggs i dont think thery will
find and eat them all hopefully.
how long do they take to hatch?
cheers
Lloyd
 
Next time they spawn get a razor blade and at a 45* angle or less gently scrape the eggs off the glass and stick them to the side of a 10g tank and treat with methylene blue and set air stones under the eggs so there is good water movement over the eggs. Some eggs will fall off the glass but that's fine, the fresher you get them the better they stick. I tend to get them as soon as I can, some times while they are still doing their thing. You will need to have a sponge filter in the tank, of a HOB with a sponge on the intake tube. Run some carbon as soon as the hatch and fall off the glass. It will be a few more days before they use up all of their egg sack. Once the egg sack is gone then you can feed with well softened shrimp pellets or whatever you are feeding the adults. The eggs will normally hatch after three days and the fry will feed from their yolk sac during the initial 48 hours. Microworms and liquid egglayer fry food are suitable as first foods. When the fry are around two weeks of age, you can start feeding the crushed flake food and brine shrimps.
 

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