plz help

[Dipen]

Today just a moment ago i found eggs on my flowerhorn tank.......there is a divider between male and female.....i was surprised and was hurrying about what to do.....
Suddey i free up the divider.....in thinking male will help to fertilize the eggs...instead of doing that he start eating that....and started fighting....then i again use divider and separate them.....plz help
Any idea or suggestion what to do now.....do the eggs hatched......or will again my female flowerhorn lay eggs after some days......

Plz plz..give me suggestion fast...
I will be very thankful

 

[fisheatfish]

They’re fighting cuz they haven’t bonded as a pair. Remove the eggs or let the male finish them and wait 2 weeks before removing the divider again. Raise the divider just high enough for the female to swim through and she’ll have a place to retreat to if they start fighting again. May take some patience getting them to pair up...once bonded, remove divider. Any pics?

 

[duanes]

Eggs can be fertilized thru an egg crate divider.
If yours are stark white, though, they may not have been fertilized, and usually there is only a short few minute window where the eggs are permeable enough o actually be fertilized.
I usually place a large rock on the females side of the divider for her to put the eggs on, and near enough so the male can aim sperm at them.
Below are a couple Lepidiolamprologus spawning they a divider..




If all eggs were eaten, or fungus over because they were unfertilized, she will probably be ready to spawn again in 10 to 15 days.

 

[Dipen]

They’re fighting cuz they haven’t bonded as a pair. Remove the eggs or let the male finish them and wait 2 weeks before removing the divider again. Raise the divider just high enough for the female to swim through and she’ll have a place to retreat to if they start fighting again. May take some patience getting them to pair up...once bonded, remove divider. Any pics?

Here are my fish pics...

 

[duanes]

It is possible, but a glass divider is quite the barrier, so may be more difficult because there is more of an obstruction to flow, unless the male got right down near the gap near the floor, and his milt was able to flow over the eggs, at exactly the right moment.
This is why I use egg crate to divide males and females, it also allow sensory cues such as the pheromones to pass and help with pair bonding, and an unobstructed flow.
I also put the female section in the downstream path of the current in the tank.

 

[fisheatfish]

Here are my fish pics...View attachment 1310697 View attachment 1310698

That’s a good size female in comparison to your male. From experience, tough to pair up flowerhorns where the female can beat up the male. What duanes mentioned above would be your safest route in allowing the male’s milt to flow through the divider. However, eggcrates make terrible dividers in that some males tear up their mouth and nuchal hump on them.

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Don't breed flowerhorn to flowerhorn.
Breed to other cichlid types.