Urgent Advice Needed Please On Bn Plec Eggs.

[layne2000]

Urgent advice needed bn eggs please.

Sometime between Friday and today my bn female laid a batch of eggs.
Unknowingly, I moved a the top of a rock cave I made to check for previous fry and a batch of orange eggs came floating out.

The community fish in the tank instantly crowded round for a feast, so in sheer panic, I have carefully removed the eggs and put them in a large breeding net with dad and his permanent cave home.

The eggs are outside the cave.
Have I done right please? or, any advice greatly appreciated.
Kind regards
Layne

My male bn (This is not the breeding net he is now, just one for the photo. The breeding net he is in has a rigid plastic framework holding it together, so dad is perfectly safe.

The eggs.

 

[toddnbecka]

If the male isn't caring for the eggs there's no point leaving him with them. You can try hatching them in the breeding net. An airstone either inside the net or close by outside would be helpful to keep the eggs aerated.

 

[layne2000]

Hi Thank you so much for taking the time to reply to my questions.

As said yesterday, I left the male bn in his cave in the breeder with the batch of eggs outside his cave overnight in my fry tank which is kept exactly the same temperature etc as my main tank.

He did come out and sit by the eggs, but thismorning he was back inside his cave with the eggs where I left them outside.

Am I right in presuming that once the eggs are laid by the female, that the male sweeps over them and fertilises them like Angel fish do, then the males main job is to fan the eggs and protet from preditors??

As the eggs are safe in the net away from would be diners, I have put the male in his cave back in the main tank.

The eggs are still nice and orange and I can see the white spot inside indicating the startings of the embryos?
As there is no male to fan the eggs, I moved an airstone closer to the breeding net so a constant flow of water passes over the eggs.

Ohhh hope Ive done right here lol

Sorry for posting more questions for you but I'm desperate to get these eggs to hatch lol

Layne (complete and utter plec noob) (but loving every minute of it)

Off to boil some coconut shells now as I'm making some plec caves