needle fish just look please!!

[lordofthejewsjr]

i woke up today and looked at my filter's bottom and i noticed two little white sacs. can these be egg sacs? anyone know:confused:

[benzjamin13]

Pics would help

[lordofthejewsjr]

i dont know where they went i had to leave to school

[Bogwoodbruce]

Could just be uneaten food.

[lordofthejewsjr]

nah i know its not left over food because they eat the entire fish

[Austin]

probably was the swim bladders of the feeders, seen it before.

[lordofthejewsjr]

could be or my neon tetra gave eggs????????

[smijeha]

how many needle fish do you have? are we talking about asian needle nose gars (not true gars)? they could be eggs. if they were white im guessing that they were no good. the white to means the eggs didnt hatch and had fungus. they dont really lay eggs in clumps. instead they lay them one at a time.....kind of stringy. they drop them anywhere. the male swims side by side with the female and fertilizes them as they are droped. mine laid over a 3 month period. the eggs were clear when first laid. i set up a hatchery tank and collected the eggs. most if not all the eggs hatched for me. was impossible to get them to eat. they wouldnt take bloodworms, water fleas, or brine shrimp. only thing they wanted was fish. newborn guppies were to big though as they couldnt fit the heads in their mouths. i even tried squeezing out baby guppies prematurely and stillk the heads were to big. i eventually got a few newborn cichlid babies (i forget what species) and finally got them to eat. they doubled in size after one meal and were finally able to eat baby guppies. the 5 or 6 that i got to this point all died suddenly from some unknow fungus in the grow out tank. if the eggs were fungus over there might still have been good eggs in your tank. perhaps they hatched already. keep a close eye out for little ones. although, i dont think they will live because of how smnall they are and the size food you need. i think the eggs took like 3 days to hatch or something. i forget but it was quick. look for continueous mating behavior. the side by side swimming. you should be able to see the eggs being dropped and the small cloud of sperm the male releases. (hmmm i think i remember seeing the sperm, been a while. i'll have to pull the video tap out :)

[channarox]

they dont lay eggs like that.
most likely something else.

[smijeha]

they dont lay eggs like that.
most likely something else.


what do you mean? the eggs are just randomly dropped in the tank. tehy have a thread that conects like 2 or 3. good eggs are clear and easy to miss. heck, even when i was looking for them i missed a few which was evident by baby needlenose swimming in the tank. i can see a couple of random onse getting caught in the filter as they are dropped.

pictures would help to determine if they were indeed eggs. he said it could be his tetras. anyone know how tetras lay their eggs? needle nose eggs were pea size or a little bit smaller

[famous323]

I THINK ITS JUST LEFT OVER FOOD

[channarox]

i meant they arent laid in clumps...
i dont know of any tetras lay eggs in clumps either.

[lordofthejewsjr]

man i forgot about this thread. i did notice that they would swim side by side back and forth. i have two and they are easy to tell apart. one has a huge mouth and the other has a small mouth. one likes guppies and the other likes minnows. and im 100% it wasnt leftover food.

[channarox]

man i forgot about this thread. i did notice that they would swim side by side back and forth. i have two and they are easy to tell apart. one has a huge mouth and the other has a small mouth. one likes guppies and the other likes minnows. and im 100% it wasnt leftover food.

good luck if they are in fact eggs...