Help!! Finally my Jack and flowers horn have eggs in the tank.

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What next though. I see a couple are white. They seem to be watching them allot. This tank is kinda dirty been working on my other tank allot. Any thoughts please help. Water is about 83.5 degrees.

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I have done tons and tons of fry with mouth brooders but never and egg layers other than pleco. Any tips or thoughts is great

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[mr.bigglesworth]

Get a 10g setup for the eggs or fry after they hatch. You have 2 options:

1) High maintanence but more surviving fry
Remove eggs and transfer into egg tumbler fry tank. Daily waterchanges. Methylene blue to protect against fungus. Parents may breed and lay eggs again in as little as 10 days.


2) extremely low maintance, but could end in disaster
Leave eggs in tank. Allow adult fish to care for them until they reach 1/2". Bad parents could result in fungus eggs cuz not fanning properly. Stressed parents may eat eggs. Parents take much longer before breed again.

 

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Would I let the eggs get a little larger? Are the white eggs bad? How to remove the eggs from the glass? The eggs are so small probably won't work in my normal pleco tumbler. These eggs are very small. Any way to have an idea if dad did his part.

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Also what about just adding blue to the full tank?

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Should I remove white eggs from the batch/?

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[mr.bigglesworth]

Would I let the eggs get a little larger? Are the white eggs bad? How to remove the eggs from the glass? The eggs are so small probably won't work in my normal pleco tumbler. These eggs are very small. Any way to have an idea if dad did his part.

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Yes white eggs are bad.

 

[mr.bigglesworth]

Also what about just adding blue to the full tank?

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The problem with this is meth blue kills your entire filter. It kills the bacteria. So basically you COULD but its actually even more difficult than option 1 and might req as many as 3-4 waterchanges a day. But way too many factors like tank size ammonia levels temperature, etc. Oh and BEWARE meth blue stains really bad. It will stain the silicone blue.

 

[tiger15]

For the first spawn, I would leave the parents to guard the eggs to see if they are fertile first. It may take up to 3 days for wigglings to appear in fertile eggs. It's no point to do anything more if the eggs aren't fertile, besides it's not possible to transfer eggs from the glass. Once spawn, they will spawn again and again. So wait for the next spawn and place a flat stone and hopefully the parents will lay eggs on the stone. Wait a few days after the spawn, remove the stone with eggs in a pastic bag or container filled with tank water and transfer them to a small tank. The small tank should be filled with the same water 100% from the spawning tank so there will be no shock in chemistry and temperature to the fry. Many times, transfering eggs or fry to the small tank don't make it because of shock from change in water condition.

I have never known flowerhow can spawn with Jack and will be interested in seeing how the offsprings turn out to be.