Need help again... Eggs and plants. 56k pic warning

Neo Sithlord

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Well last night I was to tired to clean my tanks and feed the fish as I had planned. I figured they would be ok. Well the fish, plants and maybe the snail were more then OK. I came home tonight and found eggs on the glass the plants appear to have grown afew inches and my betta tank looks worse then ever. I think the betta tank changed the least but it's gotten as bad as my 36 gallon used to be.
Anyways on to the meat of this post.
I'm almost positive the eggs aren't from the snail it's way to small to have laid all of these eggs but then I have to wonder what did. Here's a picture of the eggs close up.
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and a picture with a neon tetra to give you some scale
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I think they might be from my cory cats but I'm not sure. Maybe the white clouds? Least likely the neons. Any ideas? I'm pretty sure it wasn't the snail but that's kind of my worst case scenario. So I want to make sure before I squish them. (I don't like snails)
The plants seem to have finally shown signs of rooting and have grown 2-4 inches in the last week! Maybe I noticed more tonight but I know for a fact that they weren't hitting the surface 2 days ago. I wish I had a before and after but this is how they looked tonight.
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The ones toward the front were seperated from the bunches and are the ones that have taken off. The ones behind the pilars look pretty much like they did when I brought them home and are still bundled with rubber bands and the lead clips. (edit: forgot to note that the shorter ones tat look greener in front are fake. Left overs that filled it in before the plants took over) They're Camboba (?) can they really grow that fast? I found out that they grow to big for my tank but I wanted to get rid of my diatoms (Brown algea) so I didn't really care. I wanted the plants to compeat for food. It worked! Just to give you an idea how bad my tank would normally have looked before I added the plants here's my betta tank. It just started breaking out with the nasty stuff. Pretty much this how my 36 looked at the end of a week.
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Anyways thanks in advance and pardon my typo's just a little over tired at the moment and I still need to clean the tanks LOL.
-Neo Sithlord
 
Although I don't know which fish they came from I can say for sure they don't look like any snail egg I've ever seen, and they definately do look like fish eggs.
Dave
 
I agree, they're probably from your corys - neons and white clouds would 'scatter' the eggs AFAIK, and not attach them to a surface like that.
They do look a lot like mystery snail eggs, but snails would lay them in large bunches (they look like grapes) above the water surface, not on the glass under water. Mine used to lay them on the underside of the tank cover - sometimes a few fell in the tank but they ended up in the gravel, they didn't stick to the glass.
 
Look like the cory eggs I've had. Thats definitely my vote.
 
Well I'd say they are cory eggs after I cleaned my tank last night. They are scattered all over the tank in little bunches like in the picture. I have to ask do cories litterally mate? You know like us. Or do they spawn like salmon? Just wondering since if they "spawn" these might not be fertile eggs. Otherwise afew have been eaten over the course of the day. I love my cories and wouldn't mind trying to raise what hatches. Are there any articles on how to raise cory fry online? I never planed on my fish breeding and did everything to prevent it LOL but now I'm really curious as to what lays ahead. You could say I'm looking forward to something "new" happening in my tanks been pretty sedate for a while now.

As far as the snail goes. I did get a really good long look at him last night. I read daveedka's article on snails after I cleaned the tank. I'm pretty sure it's a ramshorn from how he described them.
-Neo Sithlord
 
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