Toadfish Laid Eggs?

I'm not totally sure what's going on here. My 8" oyster toad has been ridiculously fat for a couple months now, and hasn't eaten at all in a month. Then, suddenly, I found him in my morays hole, with a few little clear spheres scattered around him. And he seems a little thinner now, but not completely back down to normal size.

So this got me thinking... Could my "he" actually be a "her"? There's an orange toad in the tank, but I doubt they could breed. But there's not really an explanation for this that I know of.

There's only three spheres left (I believe the moray may have gotten some), so I collected them and placed them in a 10g with my banded shark egg, just to see if anything happens.

Any input guys? This one has me pretty stumped.


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Ptrick125 said:

What else is in the tank?


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It's a 75g tank, and it's a grow out for some of the fish in there.

8" oyster toad
6" orange toad
5-6" porc puffer
10-12" eel (still trying to get ID)
5" horseshoe crab
4" foxface
5" volitan lion fish


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mr.reef24 said:

how long have you had this toadfish? alot of times when they are captured for the trade they can be gravid and may keep there eggs till there stress levels lower. Most likely any fish in the tank or hermit crabs or scavengers in the tank have consumed them. Most likely the ones in the 10 gallon will not survive the breeding and rearing of saltwater fish takes alot of very intricate and hard work if you reference any Matt Wittenrich you'll see what goes into it but it is always nice to see eggs being laid in ones tank

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I've had it for over a year and a half. It was in freshwater and only 4" long when I first got it


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The hermits ate the ones in the 10g.

I found 8 more eggs scattered around the toad today, just just personally watched the puffer eat every one of them


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