ive gote a male green texas and a female vieja synspilum. the texas has been protecting the synspilum for a few days and last night she laid some eggs. i think he has fertilised them (not sure havent had fish breed before), he had a tube out below and was shaking and going crazy over the eggs. then the synspilum would come in and it looked like she was on her side fanning them? ............what should i do with the eggs? should i take the eggs and the female out or both parents? (the texas is so protective and nearly black in colour now) ...............the rest of the tank has a tandanus catfish, pleco, ghostknife, and a few other cichlids. i want to keep the fry as i think it would be pretty cool looking. any help?
texas x synspilum
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marnza;3568987; said:
if she laid the eggs on something you can remove you could do that. make sure you have a small available tank with heater and sponge filter. also make sure you fill the "egg tank" with water from the parents tank. if possible no gravel or any other substrate. if you can somehow stand the rock or whatever on it's side, do it. that way when the eggs hatch the babies will fall to the "floor", and not sit with the dieing eggs. also make sure you put some sort of anti-fungal med (most ppl use meth blue) to prevent fungus to form all over the eggs. i would also try to put the rock or whatever near the sponge filter. so there is a sort of constant water current over the eggs. this will help keep them clean.
as for the tankmates. if you decide to leave the eggs with the parents and they do hatch. i hope you have a fairly large tank or else all those other fish may get a constant beating. which will get extremely more fierce once the eggs hatch. during the "swarm" stage of the spawning the parents will be relentless. because the swarm will move wherever it wishes. thus the parents must attack everything to keep other fish far away as possible.