are those eggs or poop?

[Kurotaku]

Over the past few days, I noticed this tiny clusters of pale specks (about 1–2 mm wide) scattered on the sand and a couple on the glass in my aquarium. They appeared suddenly, so I'm not sure whether they’re fish eggs or some sort of fish waste. looks like a fungus covered

fyi i only had 4 bichir, 2 wc lap, endli and ansorgii. and 1 indo tiger inside

 

[tlindsey]

Over the past few days, I noticed this tiny clusters of pale specks (about 1–2 mm wide) scattered on the sand and a couple on the glass in my aquarium. They appeared suddenly, so I'm not sure whether they’re fish eggs or some sort of fish waste. looks like a fungus covered

fyi i only had 4 bichir, 2 wc lap, endli and ansorgii. and 1 indo tiger insideView attachment 1563865

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Most are eggs unfortunately have fungus on them. Polypterus are egg scatterers. It’s still awesome they spawned in your aquarium.

 

[tlindsey]

Most are eggs unfortunately have fungus on them. Polypterus are egg scatterers. It’s still awesome they spawned in your aquarium.

Unfortunately some believe you need hormones to breed bichir that's completely untrue. I'm also surprised they didn't eat the eggs.

 

[Kurotaku]

Wow, I’m honestly amazed! Even though the eggs got fungus, it’s still incredible that they can spawned so much. Thanks for pointing out they’re egg scatterers—I had no idea they could do this! something I’ve never experienced in all my years of fishkeeping

The most changes that i've made on them are giving them heavy feedings these past few days which is frozen shrimp. i dont usually give them shrimp tho, like once a month? i feed them until they stop eating and doing 50% wc and surprsingly i did put some fake plant on them randomly these few days ago :O

 

[Kurotaku]

Unfortunately some believe you need hormones to breed bichir that's completely untrue. I'm also surprised they didn't eat the eggs.

i notice some of they munching on them few times, and few even spit them back out afterward. It’s like they try one or two, then decide they don’t want them.

 

[tlindsey]

If you want to collect eggs in the future make a spawning mop using yarn. Hunter green color yarn was what I used. Attach the yarn to something so it stays near the bottom. The female should choose the yarn if so the eggs will adhere to the spawning mop.

 

[Kurotaku]

I’ll definitely try making a spawning mop in the future. Thanks for sharing, I’m looking forward to giving it a go next time!