So my male and female spent all day spawning yesterday and laid eggs either yesterday or sometime last night. Fish generally fertilize eggs while they're being laid, right?
It's 9:49 am now. I pulled the pvc pipe with eggs about 30-45 minutes ago and put them into a 2.5 gallon with the pipe vertical with an airstone down it for air flow. It's filtrated and heated and cycled.
I know I pulled the eggs really early but I hope I didn't jump the gun and pull them before they were fertilized. Did I jump the gun? The male was fanning them already and had chased the female out by the time I pulled them. Do you think they've been fertilized already?
I would have liked to have left them longer but there was two problems.
1. The male ate the eggs shortly after they were laid last time, even before any eye spots were showing.
2. A snail was making it's way down the pipe, ready to feast on eggs and there's a lot more snails where that one came from. The tank is heavily planted and I can't remove the majority of the snails.
The 2.5 gallon that is now housing the eggs was my guppy and platy fry grow out tank. I took them out and put them in with my adult peacock gudgeons. It shouldn't stop them from spawning again or laying more eggs, right? I'm feeding the fry Hikari first bites, cyclops, and Kent's Zooplex. And they just got big enough to start accepting small black worms.
It's 9:49 am now. I pulled the pvc pipe with eggs about 30-45 minutes ago and put them into a 2.5 gallon with the pipe vertical with an airstone down it for air flow. It's filtrated and heated and cycled.
I know I pulled the eggs really early but I hope I didn't jump the gun and pull them before they were fertilized. Did I jump the gun? The male was fanning them already and had chased the female out by the time I pulled them. Do you think they've been fertilized already?
I would have liked to have left them longer but there was two problems.
1. The male ate the eggs shortly after they were laid last time, even before any eye spots were showing.
2. A snail was making it's way down the pipe, ready to feast on eggs and there's a lot more snails where that one came from. The tank is heavily planted and I can't remove the majority of the snails.
The 2.5 gallon that is now housing the eggs was my guppy and platy fry grow out tank. I took them out and put them in with my adult peacock gudgeons. It shouldn't stop them from spawning again or laying more eggs, right? I'm feeding the fry Hikari first bites, cyclops, and Kent's Zooplex. And they just got big enough to start accepting small black worms.
