What kind of eggs?

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Michaelh218

Medium Fish
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Jan 13, 2009
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Elberta, Al
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I have a 47 gal bowfront with T5 lighting DIY co2 and live plants.

My stock list is primarily live bearers...guppies, a molly, 3 swordtails, however my egglayers are as follows..
5 Neon Tetras
5 Zebra Danios lyretail
12 cherry shrimp
1 frog
1 algea eater

I tried taking pics of the eggs but my camera is being a bit of a pain as it keeps wanting to focus on the glass and not the subject.

It is a clear sack with a bunch of transparent eggs with a white nucleas. The only egglayers I have are the shrimp, neons and danios (frog is solo) but the shrimp, according to what I've read hold on to the eggs till they hatch, neons and danios hatch in 22 to 30 hours and these have been in a little over 24 with no significant change.

Again, sorry about the pic but if anyone can give me a hint as to what it could be I'd appreciate it. Also have snails but they lay their eggs at the top of the water and only have one mature snail (the others are hitchikers)
 

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kelbri

Small Fish
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Jan 27, 2009
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Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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As I understand, the Neon Tetras are a scattering egg layer, as the male will chase the female and fertilize eggs wherever they fall. Please correct me if I am wrong on that. So my guess is that if they are all in the same spot, then probably not the tetras.
 

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Michaelh218

Medium Fish
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Jan 13, 2009
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Elberta, Al
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well there are about 4 "sacks" of eggs over a 1sqft area but as mentioned they are all in "sacks" for lack of a better term so they are as you said, probably not the tetras.

Not to mention, the article I read stated they are notoriously difficult to breed in captivity and seeing how I'm such a newb, that also counts them out (I'm not that lucky either lol)

Might also bear to note that the eggs were laid within minutes after about a 50% water change.
 

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