So you want eggs, eh?

[squabeggs]

Well on the upside I now know for sure that I have 2 males and 2 females, so I can adjust thier names appropriately. On the downside I now have eggs EVERYWHERE!

Plants, filters,glass and on and on....

Anyone know of any easy way to clean those old nasty white ones off? Or am I gonna have to pull all my plants (plastic) and scrub them in tank water? Or should I just let them get hairy with fungus and rot? (by the way will that fungus mess with my fish?...I assume they will be fine since they are all healthy or seem to be)

Anyways, any advice on those nasty, white, unfertilized orbs would be appreciated.

I did take a few good ones out...20,30,40...who knows...and put them in a 10 gal tank whith a couple of inches of water and an airstone. Guess I'll see what happens from there.

here is how I cleaned some of the old nasties out of the nursery tank...clean visene bottle,air tubing, and mason jar. This way I could make sure I only sucked up dead ones.

it also comes apart nicely for cleaning

here is my "nursery" tank. There is an airstone along with gravel bits that I was too lazy to sort out. Any advise?

 

[DAVIDFBT]

If the unfertilized eggs are on the glass, I would take them off with a razor or a clean paint scraper and leave the ones on your plants. For the nursery tank, I would fill it up, get a sponge filter and leave it bare bottomed. Good luck with your spawn!

 

[petluvr]

I always just use an eye dropper to remove the the unfertile eggs. What type of fish are these?

 

[squabeggs]

common comet goldies...they hatched today! so far there are about 15+ little squiglies in there. So I should fill the 10 gal tank? I've got a whisper 20 with the intake wrapped with a fine fine mesh to hopefully avoid any suck ins....it was from a cycled tank.

 

[ITHURTZ]

Fill the tank no more than halfway, take the filter out and put in a air stone. You risk losing fish with a filter. My fry went 3-4 weeks with no filter, then I got a 5g internal filter and put floss over the intake.

 

[Flaringshutter]

I never remove any eggs from the tank - the free floaters will get sucked into the filter, where they will decompose normally with leftover food and detritus, and any still in the tank will promptly be eaten.

Good luck with the babies! I'd definitely use a sponge filter rather than risk it with the mesh, especially because newly hatched little ones are super sensitive to water movement. What you think might be a bit too much is usually WAY WAY too much. My babies couldn't handle the equivalent of a whisper 20 until at least two months.
Start with a sponge filter, then move up to a small internal. I had great success with the Elite Mini - I just wrapped felt over the intake, and it worked beautifully.