Eggs?

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Franki

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I was watching the shrimp and noticed something on the glass. I'm sure they are eggs but wonder if anyone knows from who?
There 5 Gouramis pretty sure 3 females mature and 2 small males.
2 panda Cory's - one is a very small baby been here 2 weeks. One a couple yrs old.
2 pepper cats (Cory's.)
2 Cory's that have stripes and spots.
The big old algea eater and 4 Platys which I know are live bearers.
Any ideas what kind of eggs and what do I do?
Also one blue mystery snail.
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Newman

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my bet is on cory eggs. we don't know which cories since you have 3 possible species, but i am 98% sure they are from cories, congrads! the tough part is hatching them before they get eaten. i have no idea how to save eggs stuck to glass. i was only able to save the eggs that i found on a dried leaf when my pygmy cories bred. and only 2 eggs at that. only one fry survived to adulthood - i still have him in my tank.
 

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Franki

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I read all about your eggs before I posted. I'd sure like to save them. Pretty sure I can rule out the Pandas because of the baby.
The two not peppered - one looks like your baby the other is much more drab but the were sold as the same type of Cory.
Wonder if I could fix a breeding trap so the would fall into it when it hatches.
How long does it take for them to hatch?
Should I set up a little tank for them?

Thanks
Franki
 

Newman

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what you should do ASAP (if they haven't been eaten already) is to make some sort of trap around that portion of the glass (but water still has to be flowing through the trap). once they all hatch in about 2-5 days you can try to remove them to a proper breeder trap and you can raise them in there. cory fry are microscopic so you have to look hard. they will be about the size of the eggs when hatched.
 

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Franki

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Thanks
I'm sure they weren't there last night - trying to figure out how to enclose them.
I appreciate the help I'd really like to save them.
Franki
 

exhumed07

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one thing that i have read is to take a VERY sharp new razor blade and scrape them off the glass into a breeder net. I've never had mine breed and catch them in time before my loaches and neons get to them to try that though. but on the plus side you have had them breed at least once now so future spawning is almost a certinty.
 

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Franki

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Currently working on it but took a small new ziplock plastic container. Cut the sides out going around but not enough to totally cut it. Cut like toe big windows.
Covered with nylon from pantyhose and going to wedge against the glass for tonight. Hopefully it will protect them and allow water flow till I get home from work tomorrow and figure out something better.
Thanks all for everything!
Franki
 

Newman

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Sep 22, 2009
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i wouldnt do a razor blade. often not sharp enough to remove delicate eggs from glass like cories' without damaging them. it barely works with pleco egg clutches which are super tough but blade still cuts the ones attached to glass (ones further in clutch dont get damaged) but since cory eggs are all on glass with no protected layer, they will get cut up :(

if only blades were sharp enough.
 

FreshyFresh

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Interesting! I've had similar looking eggs on the glass of my 20g long and they disappeared within a day or two, yet I've never noticed the fish picking at them. I wonder if they're from my emerald corys?

In that tank is 8 neons, 4 blood-fin tetras, 4 emerald corys and a honey gourami that's only grown to about an inch long.
 

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Newman

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yeah pretty much since they spawned on the glass you can't remove eggs safely. i am sure if you give your cories a spawning area like a mop and check that often you can find eggs that are removable, and you can remove the spawning mop and raise them in their own grow-out tank, safe from the tetras and gourami. cories are born with very soft-jelly like bodies surprisingly. not like spiny Pleco fry that aren't even palatable to Angelfish (i have seen my Angel try).
 

FreshyFresh

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Had several bunches of suspected cory eggs on the glass the other day. Some pretty well hidden behind decor. They remained for two days or so, then the egg looking parts of 'patches' disappeared, then a day or so after that all traces of them disappeared.
 

FreshyFresh

FreshyFresh

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Newman said:
fry are soft and are easily eaten so that's likely what happened. you should remove them if you want to raise them :)
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I'd do that in a heart-beat if I could find eggs on decor that I could remove from the tank. There are some rocks, fake and live plants in this tank. I float some wisteria and watersprite. Don't really have lighting conducive to plant growth. A cheap TopFin LED hood that came with a 29g kit. It's a little more intense using it on a short 20L though.
 

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