Eggs! Who’s the culprit?

[tlindsey]

Well, I found the motherload of eggs. under the Anubis’s leaf. I filled the 2.5 gallon 1/3 of the way with cycled water, and added an air stone. The air stone produces a lot of bubbles. Do I leave it? Are they fertile? I was not expecting this! What a pleasant surprise! Can’t get a great picture with the iPad.

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Yes leave the air stone in it will keep the water moving keeping debris off the eggs.

 

[The Masked Shadow]

This one is on me. I left them in a tank without a heater. Completely forgot about that part. What do I do? Did they die?

 

[jjohnwm]

Hmmm...you have something that should have a heater...but you put it in a tank with no heater...

That's a tough one...what to do, what to do...?

Oh! Oh! I know! Maybe...put in a dang heater now! Radical, I know, but sometimes you have to think outside the box.

 

[The Masked Shadow]

Ha! I got a battery heater thing. My question was do you think they are Dead?

 

[C. Breeze]

Put the little heater in, or put them someplace warm in the house. Kitchen or whatever. If they fungus- they died. If they hatch you’ll need fry food a few days or a week later. Not sure on Cory timeline. . Decapsualted brine shrimp, or hatch brine shrimp eggs, hikari first bites. Etc.


Get a medicine dropper or pipette to squirt a little food down to them.

 

[EntoStentor]

Yeah, those are cory eggs if I've ever seen them. I bred them unwittingly several times, they must have laid them right in the back of the aquarium or something because after a while I saw 3 very small baby cories swimming with the parents. All of the eggs I saw or tried to save died of fungus, no idea how the ones that hatched escaped from it.

 

[The Masked Shadow]

The one in the 2.5 gallon tank have fungus :/. The ones in the 55 don’t. I’ll just see if they will survive in there.

 

[The Masked Shadow]

More eggs. The other ones died. The male ate them, but there may be more ?