Came Home To Find A Lot Of Eggs

[jim566]

hi all its my first post so here goes

after a sucsessful move 4 weeks ago i came home tonight to find a large amount of little yellow balls (2-3 mm) scattered around the tank with a small clump which i managed to move to a floating tank.

what can i do to help them on there way?

btw
the tank has been going for 5 years with almost all the original fish which are
4 plecos (2 albino bristle nose one of which hasn't moved from a self dug hole 2 other cant remember)
2 3 spot gourami
3 mollies (definatly not theirs)
3 bleeding heart tetras
4 clown loaches (great things so playful)
4 shrimps (not large ones great to watch fly around the tank)

TIA peeps

 

[dwarfgourami]

Well, as you say, it won't be the mollies. Nor likely to be the clown loaches, and the bleeding hearts would also be very unusual. The gouramis build bubble nests. I am a little suspicious of the bristlie with his selfdug hole- were the eggs found anywhere in the vicinity. When bristlies spawn, the male entices the female into his cave, where she lays a clutch or orange/ambercoloured eggs, she then departs and he stays in the cave where he fans the eggs with his fins for 10-14 days until they are ready to hatch. He only comes out of the cave to eat when the young have become free-swimming and left home. If there is any chance that your bristlie has somehow "mislaid" his eggs, they will need a good current of water over them to replace their father's care.

 

[Tolak]

I would bet they are bristlenose eggs, digging a spawning spot & guarding it is typical bristlenose spawning behavior.