Mbuna Ron Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 I have a 90 gall. heavily planted tank with diamond tetras, cardinal tetras., rainbows. a few danios, tiger barbs, gold barbs, a rosy barb, odessa barbs, clown loaches and bristlenose plecos. I just received a second and third batch of small white/clearish eggs attached to the top of val in clusters of about 25-30. The first batch has not hatched after about a week. Any idea of the source and what I can do to hatch them?? I do have a separate 10 gall. for fry grow-out I could put the eggs in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvision Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 That sounds like snail eggs to me. All of those fish, except the plecos, are egg scatterers, and pleco eggs are largish and yellow/orange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbuna Ron Posted November 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 I do have one apple snail in there..do you think that is the source? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvision Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 Hmmmm... I think apple snails usually lay their eggs above the water line. Could be wrong about that tho Think you might have some pond or ramshorn snails that stoed in on your plants? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbuna Ron Posted November 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 No absolutely none...plus the last 2 clusters of eggs occurred within one week of the first cluster. Actually the last two are slightly smaller eggs than the first one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvision Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 My bet <i>is</i> on the Apple snails. It's the Mystery Snails that lay out of the water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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