Is there a type of fish that does not touch eggs?

One would have to believe that very few species would not eat eggs, unless brood care comes from their nature. Primarily, some fish has injested food, broken down that food and excreted all the useless fillers and roughage and unuasable nutrients in the food -- not a terribly efficient process -- to make this egg. And you know the egg is full of good nutrients, as the fry have to live off the egg-sack for at least some time. So, to most fish, eggs are just about the best food ever.

And, of course, secondarily, many fish are gang spawners, with groups of 100s or 1000s mating at once, and nature takes over again; fish are compelled to eat others' eggs to give their own brood a slightly larger chance at surviving. In the aquarium, the fish don't realize that there are only 10s of them (or 1s!) and even though it is their own eggs present, nature still compels them to try to eat as many as possible.
 
What about algae eaters? Otos, shrimp.... they may not eat eggs as readily as others???
 
Inchworm said:
Hi Erised :)

Why not get some more corys? There are so many different kinds and they all get along well together. :thumbs:

The thing about corys eating eggs, is that sometimes they will eat them, but mostly not. It seems like once in a while you will find an individual fish that is an egg eater and all you can do when this happens is to separate it from the spawning fish. :/
I thought about that, but seeing as I'm gonna use the same tank for spawning I cant afford to mix different types of corydoras, seeing as I'm quite sure there's a chance of the cories breeding with eachother.

I will however get more corydoras, but keep the others in our 55G community tank, where the eggs will get eaten if they breed with eachother rather than the same subspecies. Once I want them to breed I'll move them into the 40G

Thanks all =)
 

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