Fish Eggs

[AshleyT]

Right so I had a plant pot in my tank I took it out so I could put my large piece of bog wood in, I then look at the plant pot and it had eggs on it abit yellowish colour I put them into my fish net as I haven't got a breeder net just yet will this be ok for now?

 

[thereverendturtle]

It might be. Really a separate tank is needed not just a breeder net.

 

[AshleyT]

I have a little one but it has no heater or filter

 

[CezzaXV]

They should be fine in the net for now until you can get something sorted.

I'm raising cory eggs right now. What I do is cut out the bottom of a large plastic milk bottle and float it in the tank (whih keeps the temperature right) with an air stone to keep the water circulating and oxygenated (though I don't know whether all eggs would need this - you'd need to research your breed of eggs) and a small stem plant to soak up any nasties from the water. This generally will do until they hatch, then I set up my fry tank.

For future reference, it's never a bad idea to have a spare filter and heater in storage for situations such as these. I actually bought a dinky little All Pond Solutions internal filter new on Amazon for £7.99 so it's not expensive to do.

 

[AshleyT]

Ok thanks for the information, I don't think this batch will survive as I think I left them out of the tank to long

 

[AshleyT]

Right so the net is in the water with the eggs in and some fish are nipping at the net will this harm the eggs ?

 

[boabmac63]

If they wer out tge water they will be dead

 

[AshleyT]

They was only out for a few min or doesnt that mater

 

[fluttermoth]

It doesn't matter; most, if not all, fish eggs must not be out of water for even a second.

But if you have fish spawning, they'll almost certainly spawn again; better luck next time!

 

[drobbyb]

Fish eggs are remarkably resilient. A few minutes out of the water probably won't hurt them as long as they didn't get dry.

 

[CezzaXV]

Why would you remove them from water for a few minutes?

 

[drobbyb]

For rainbow eggs, sometimes it is preferable to pluck them from the spawning mops if the mops have snail eggs on them, or to add the eggs to a vial for shipping to someone else, or to transfer the eggs to another tank for hatching. There may be many reasons.

 

[CezzaXV]

For rainbow eggs, sometimes it is preferable to pluck them from the spawning mops if the mops have snail eggs on them, or to add the eggs to a vial for shipping to someone else, or to transfer the eggs to another tank for hatching. There may be many reasons.

But surely not for minutes? I've had to remove eggs from water before to move them to their new containers, but we're talking a second or two at most.

 

[AshleyT]

Because I had a plant pot in and I had to take it out to put my bogwood in and I saw them on the pot out of the corner of my eye

 

[drobbyb]

It can take some time to pick them from mops. We are talking eggs roughly 1mm in size and crystal clear. They look like glass beads and scattered throughout the mop. It can take up to 10 minutes to go through a mop and you may not find them all, and the eggs still hatch. You just have to ensure they stay wet.