Who do these eggs belong to?

[888fish]

Filter sock, gets these eggs down my overflow, happens once every 16-18 days. Very slimy coating around these eggs, oily, stinky fishy smell. The occupants are:

Clown loaches: 21 (3"- 6")
Yo-Yo loach: 5"
Blue Botia loach: 5"
Lepotobotia Elongata (Royal loach): 5"
Scarlet pleco (L25): 5"
Geophagus Red Head Tapajos : 5" male
Gymnothorax Polyurandon : 4 (10-20")
Fei-Feng Flagtail : 12"
Archerfish Jac: 6"
Burmese Archerfish: 5 (3")
Yellow Calvus: 4"
Mascara barbs: 3 (3")
Roseline barbs: 6 (3")
Rainbow shark: 4"

Any ideas?

 

[Frank Castle]

1st of all eliminate fish that stick their eggs to things like Cichlids, Plecos and Morays........we'll figure this out together lololol I wish I had an answer but I like solving mysteries. We're looking for an egg-scatterer, so barbs definitely on the list of culprits

 

[Frank Castle]

are the eggs fertilized when you find them ??

 

[888fish]

I do have a good amount of driftwood in the tank. But, the barbs are only 3", and that's a lot of eggs!

 

[888fish]

Can't tell if fertilized, the eggs are getting hammered with 1000gph to the socks. But definitely not salvageable.

 

[Renegade Aquatics]

Only probably answer is the D. assmilis
unless the calvus or the geos layed near the intake

 

[888fish]

Loaches? Cuz they got this weird slime coat thing sometimes, and the there are a lot of eggs with thick slimy coating.

 

[fishnatics]

I'm thinking it's the barbs

 

[Frank Castle]

although in hindsight I can see no candidate that could be responsible for the oily, slimy coating besides the Gymnothorax polyuranadons. An Eel's slime coat is like no other

 

[Renegade Aquatics]

I don't the moray is the owner of the eggs
as far as I know they have never been recorded to lay eggs in captivity
I would have to check with the loaches though
the slime could be from just the gunk and other things that normally get caught in the filter