Tiger Barb Eggs

[tetra9999]

Can someone please help...

I sucessfully got my tiger barbs to breed (at last)... however, after having noticed the eggs - which looked heathy initially - they started to dossolve after a couple of hours. Any ideas??

Here are some of the things that I did that might have had a contributing factor:

- Changed 20% water. I did this using a dechlorinator...
- Turned off the internal filter
- Tried to remove some of the gunk between the eggs, but quite a bit still remained
- Didn't clean the tank b4 breeding (didn't seem overly dirty - but might have been)

temp quite high at 81F

It seems to much of a co-incidence that after fiddling - they died... so i suspect that it was something that i did! (My suspicion is that it was point 1 or 4)

Any ideas most welcome!

Thanks,
Tetra

 

[WILDER]

Why did you turn the internal filter off doing your self no favours there,to stop them getting sucked into the filter put a pair of tight cut in half over it,also you can add melafix to the tank to stop the eggs getting infected.

 

[dragoon459]

you definitly shouldn;t have to turn off the filter. All you need to do is cover it with pantyhose and use a rubberband to keep it down.

 

[tetra9999]

Thanks for the reply guys/gals....

Dragoon - i'll try that idea, thx. you should have seen some of the less that ingeneous ways i came up with.... this is much better thanks..

Does anyone think that this water change might have caused some damage?

thx again,
Tetra

 

[digital_run]

Did you remove the barbs after they spawned? ..... You shouldnt handle the eggs once they are laid ..... I dont think the water change would affect the eggs...unless you poured the water right on top of the eggs and disturbed them with it. HIH

 

[tetra9999]

Hi Digital,

Yeah - i removed the adults straight away.

I put in 20% of the water which i must say did 'flow' over the eggs.... not to a large extent, but would have moved a couple.

Although I didn't handle the eggs, I might have move a few around to try and get rid of some of the dirt in between them. How important is it you do this? Also - if someone knows a inavative way of doing it - i'm keen to hear (reading some of these posts i've quickly realised that i quite feeble when it comes to adaptation!!)...

I used a spawning grate which was about 1 inch off the ground for the eggs to fall through - which I thoroughly recommend... however - maybee 1 inch was too high for the eggs to be fertalised?? thought that they got fertalised on the way down, but just asking...

Finally, anyone know when my female (I've got a few females actually, but knowing my luck i'll choose the same damn one) gets back to egg laying fitness??

Thanks all for your help,

Tom