Whats This? Again! Pics Too! Calling Inchworm!

[raptorrex]

Their back again!!!!! eggs in a two inch band on filter inlet. lol pics this time

close,

 

[SamUK]

be helpful to say whats in the tank to ID the eggs.


they could be hundreds of things.

 

[MHunt]

Cool! Whats in your tank?

 

[raptorrex]

lol oops did that last time too.


angels 2
corys 2
plecs 3
gurami, 2
tigerbarbs 2
silver dollars 2
rummy nose tetras 2

 

[Neal]

My money is on the angels or the corys, good luck with them!
Are you removing them or not?

Neal

 

[DiscusKeeper403]

Angels 100% sure!

 

[Liam]

Looks like Angels, are they protecting them, picking at them, if so then its definite

 

[Arfie]

I'd go for the angels too, they tend to lay them in verticle lines and all together (well mine do ) and they will protect them evern from me whereas my corys tend to lay them in random clutches all over the place.

Arfie

 

[Inchworm]

Hi boboboy

You have albino corys, don't you? I'm not sure what angelfish eggs look like, but they do look a lot like cory eggs. This is a picture of a batch from a pair of my bronze C. aeneus, the same species your albinos most likely are.

It's not at all unusual for corys to spawn on or around a filter intake since they like to put their eggs where they get good water circulation around them.

Will you remove them and try to raise this batch? If so, please start a thread about them in the Corydoras section. We'd love to follow their progress.

 

[Tolak]

If the angels are fanning & protecting the eggs, they are angel eggs. Angels will eat cory eggs, if you see angels eating instead of protecting they are cory eggs.

Some of it depends on how close to the surface the eggs end. Angels will spawn up until their nose touches the surface, they can't go any higher. If the distance from the surface to the top of the spawn matches up with the distance between the angel's mouth & ovipositor, you have angel eggs. It does appear to have the pattern of a first spawn, not in neat rows, angel's tend to get neater with it in time. The quantity seems right as well.

 

[raptorrex]

well it looks like its the angels, they are hanging around chancing everything away. i noticed, this morning that most of the eggs, have gone a brown colour, with only a few remaining a pearl colour. would it be too far off the mark to assume that the brown ones are un-fertilised? ill post a pic as soon as i can get some.

next........ what the hell do i do with them now???

thanks for all the help people, i will start a thread keeping you all up to date!

 

[DiscusKeeper403]

well it looks like its the angels, they are hanging around chancing everything away. i noticed, this morning that most of the eggs, have gone a brown colour, with only a few remaining a pearl colour. would it be too far off the mark to assume that the brown ones are un-fertilised? ill post a pic as soon as i can get some.

next........ what the hell do i do with them now???

thanks for all the help people, i will start a thread keeping you all up to date!

Brown= Fertilized.

 

[raptorrex]

k got the pic, lol as you can see the Angel is well on guard!!

 

[TammyLiz]

Oh, how beautiful! Protecting the babies.

 

[Inchworm]

If the angels are fanning & protecting the eggs, they are angel eggs. Angels will eat cory eggs, if you see angels eating instead of protecting they are cory eggs.

Some of it depends on how close to the surface the eggs end. Angels will spawn up until their nose touches the surface, they can't go any higher. If the distance from the surface to the top of the spawn matches up with the distance between the angel's mouth & ovipositor, you have angel eggs. It does appear to have the pattern of a first spawn, not in neat rows, angel's tend to get neater with it in time. The quantity seems right as well.

Tolak's right about the Angel's eating cory eggs. If they were from the corys, they would have been long gone.

How interesting to learn that Angels stop spawning before they reach the top. Corys often put their eggs all the way up to the surface and will occasionally even put a few out of the water by accident.

Lots of luck with raising your fry!