Help please on new eggs

[davetherave]

Hi everyone

Found some eggs fixed to the glass tonight - I must be doing something right

The fish started eating some - but I managed to "lift" a few using a lettuce leaf and put them into a breeding tank within the main tank!! Possibly about 12 in all

A couple of question please

1 Anyone any ideas on "collecting" eggs in the future?

2 Presume they are Pearl Danio's as these are the only fish in the tank that are likely to breed - how long would they take to hatch and what do I feed them on - will some finely crushed flake do or frozen shrimp?

3 Kept poorly fish in the breeder before and a week it needed cleaning out - whats the best way of cleaning it without damaging the fry?

Thanks everyone in anticipation

Regards

DAVE UK

 

[Tempestuousfury]

Danios scatter eggs, they don't stick.

What fish do you have? Chances are it was cories.... If so, a nice piece of slate and plants might be good places for them to deposit eggs, seeing as how you can move them easily.

A pipeline should work as a siphon. It'll take a while, but this way you won't hurt the fry. By breeder, do you mean like a net breeder or a tank. (I believe the former... but that advice was primarily for a tank). Where are the eggs now?

I believe they take two days to hatch, regardless of the species (thatis if it's a common species, of course).

First figure out what fish laid the eggs and you can figure out which type of food to wean the fry on.

 

[davetherave]

Hi

The eggs were fixed to the glass - just below the surface line, some were attached the power head out let pipe attachment extension - this I managed to remove with the eggs intact and without disrupting the water flow.

The breeder is a plastic fish breeder - I removed the inner

I did purchase 6 Bronze cories last week - they are about 1.5cm - already had 2 others at about 2 cm but would they egg lay at the surface?

Other fish I have are small rainbow fish (could not tell the name ), one pair of Red Rainbows, the rest of the fish are bubble nesters (I think) with the exception of 3 YOYO loaches at about 4cm who do seem rather active on occasions

(Will try the cleaning technique)

Thanks

Regards

Dave

 

[Tempestuousfury]

Hmm. Cories lay eggs at the bottom. I believe rainbows are egg scatterers, too, but not sure.

Yup, the sites and my prior knowledge both agree on the fact that the danios scatter eggs among plants...

 

[Storm]

I used to have a single albino cory cat in a tank with tons of guppies. Periodically, I would find eggs on the back wall of the aquarium. Now, I know it wasn't the guppies so that lead me to believe it was the cory cat.

 

[Tempestuousfury]

Where in the tank was it? Just below the surface as in this case? Or further down?

 

[Storm]

Hmmm...maybe about two inches down from the surface?

 

[davetherave]

Hi

Hope the eggs hatch tomorrow

They still look "clean"

I am waiting in anticipation

Will let you know what they are for further advice

Regards

Dave

 

[my_fallen_angel]

did they hatch???