Egg I.D.?

[FishGuest5123]

I found this egg stuck on top of a water lettuce leaf. I thought it must be some kind of snail egg because it was stuck in the leaf and not in the water. It has a reddish tint but is clear like it is fertilized. Any ideas? I have the following that could be the owner:
Snails: ramshorn. Few pond snails.
Fish: leopard danio, golden white cloud, cherry barbs, glo light tetras, neon tetras. It is stuck to the leaf. Can it survive floating above and not in the water? One golden mountain minnow and one leopard danio appear to be carrying eggs.

 

[Colin_T]

It's not a snail egg. Ramshorn and pond snails produce jelly like clusters with little black/ brown dots in the cluster. The black dots are the eggs.

The small amber thing on the bottom section of the top leaf appears to be a fish egg. It might have been thrown out of the water during the excitement of breeding. They don't survive out of water so stick it in water if you want to try and hatch it.

As to what species of fish, could be anything.

 

[CassCats]

Hard to say, but i know my cherry barbs, their eggs are red. Unsure on your other species what colour egg theyd lay, but i do know cherries lay red eggs.

Tiny, but this was the one i hatched (the fry didnt end up making it unfortunately)

If you look at the bottom of the container

 

[Carolyn N]

What is that thing on the green ??tube??. Looks like it is gripping it.

 

[Colin_T]

lucky bamboo?

 

[Barry Tetra]

It looks like danios or minnow eggs to me.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

It looks like a danio egg possibly? Best guess is it didn’t survive.

 

[FishGuest5123]

It looks like a danio egg possibly? Best guess is it didn’t survive.

I don’t know. It’s still clear this morning. They usually fog up if they didn’t survive. I thought I had an all male tank is why it’s puzzling me. I got tired of fry. Only fry I want is my goldfish fry these days.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

I don’t know. It’s still clear this morning. They usually fog up if they didn’t survive. I thought I had an all male tank is why it’s puzzling me. I got tired of fry. Only fry I want is my goldfish fry these days.

Hmm..interesting. I guess just put it back in the tank and see?

 

[FishGuest5123]

Ugh! I always breed my goldfish in Spring/Shmmer months indoors. I just raise the temp when ready and there we go. Well, I decided not to breed yet this year as I lost my best male and not really crazy about my other one. Waiting for a new young one to mature. I keep my females together in one tank and males in another until ready to breed. Mother Nature didn’t like my plan and the females left me about 300 unfertilized eggs today. Thanks, ladies. Had to clean the tank out before they molded. It is definitely Spring in my house!

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Ugh! I always breed my goldfish in Spring/Shmmer months indoors. I just raise the temp when ready and there we go. Well, I decided not to breed yet this year as I lost my best male and not really crazy about my other one. Waiting for a new young one to mature. I keep my females together in one tank and males in another until ready to breed. Mother Nature didn’t like my plan and the females left me about 300 unfertilized eggs today. Thanks, ladies. Had to clean the tank out before they molded. It is definitely Spring in my house!

So cool! Do you sell the fry at your LFS or online?

 

[FishGuest5123]

I have a small clientele now thanks to my daughter for my pond fish. She lives in the country and a lot of the rancher’s use them in their stock tanks/ponds to fight algae. I sell my Moore’s and Calico’s to my lfs. I have been doing business with her for several years. Occasionally I breed orders for her outside of normal breeding months on my moor’s because they grow exceptionally large. I’ve shipped a few but just don’t like that. I tend to make pets out of them before they leave. . I do it more for the hobby and certainly couldn’t make a living off of it.

 

[Retired Viking]

I have a small clientele now thanks to my daughter for my pond fish. She lives in the country and a lot of the rancher’s use them in their stock tanks/ponds to fight algae. I sell my Moore’s and Calico’s to my lfs. I have been doing business with her for several years. Occasionally I breed orders for her outside of normal breeding months on my moor’s because they grow exceptionally large. I’ve shipped a few but just don’t like that. I tend to make pets out of them before they leave. . I do it more for the hobby and certainly couldn’t make a living off of it.

That sounds cool , must be some work to it but sound like enjoyable work,. When I had Koi (3) they would swim up to the top of the tank and wait for me to feed them. Sometimes if I took too long to feed them, they would get so excited they start splashing around and I have to close the led and dry off the outside of the tank with a towel.

 

[FishGuest5123]

I love watching the goldfish grow from a tiny clear egg into a beautiful fish. They look like an eyelash stuck to the glass when they first hatch. Little overwhelmed this year though and going to cut my breeding down. I have 13 tanks up and running right now and my pond. I now have 9 bettas, 8 breeding goldfish and 3 pond goldies. Then there’s the shrimp tank that I tried to do away with but it is quickly replenishing itself and the community tank which I’m not sure how many fish are in anymore. So fry just don’t sound too exciting this year. Going to get a group of moor’s for lfs and a few promised orders of Shubunkins for customers. That will be about it this year.