Help! My pygmies have spawned(I think)

GinoInChicago · Post by **GinoInChicago** » 22 Nov 2003, 10:35

ok guys I hope you can help me here. I think my corydoras Pygmaeus have spawned but I am not sure. I did a water change yesterday and I just looked in the tank and see what looks like a couple blobs of something on the glass each "blob" is about half the size of a dime and looks like there are things in it...kind of a reddish/orange color to them. Does this sound familiar? Are these pygmy eggs? I also have 5 small pandas in this tank to so it might be them, thogh I have heard they prefer a spawning mop to glass. Any input would be appreciated.

michelle56 · Post by **michelle56** » 22 Nov 2003, 19:21

try not to touch the egg(if there are any) I heard bad things have happened to eggs if you touch them.

Viking Bear · Post by **Viking Bear** » 23 Nov 2003, 05:26

Panda eggs are a gold/clear color. They are similar in size C. aenus. They are not red or orange in color. Both panda tend to lay eggs single. You should be able to see the individual eggs. They tend to darking with age until they dark grey with visible eyes just before they hatch. Pandas take almost a week to hatch at a temperature in the mid seventies. Do you have any other fish in the tank?

Later,

Scott

GinoInChicago · Post by **GinoInChicago** » 23 Nov 2003, 10:39

all that is in the tank are the 11 pygmies and 5 pandas.

Allan · Post by **Allan** » 24 Nov 2003, 12:01

looks like a couple blobs of something on the glass each "blob" is about half the size of a dime and looks like there are things in it...kind of a reddish/orange color to them. Does this sound familiar?

Sounds like snail eggs to me.

Are the "things" gateret in a clear gel like substance?

Post by **Coryman** » 26 Nov 2003, 14:09

It also sounds like snail eggs to me, pygmaeus lay small 1mm diameter eggs and spred them all over the tank, so to panda but theirs are larger, about 1.3mm dia.

Cory eggs are handleable and if you touch the eggs in your tank I think you will find the patch you describe will feel like jelly.

Ian