Wow, this morning after I fed the 10g community, I noticed a bunch of white, round eggs on the tank wall. Most are in a sort of cluster on one tank wall and some on another wall. Overall there must be 80 to 100 eggs.

Here is what puzzles me about this. The only egg layers I have are a couple of Zebras and two albino Cory cats. I thought Zebras laid eggs on the bottom. I have no idea what Cory's do.

Is there any way to save them, whatever they are? The other fish seem to be ignoring them for the moment.

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60g tall, all artificial plants, Rainbow tank; 55g for African Cichlids. 20g long for fry; 20g hex, 2 black Angels at my desk; 10g planted, with 50 Molly fry; 10 gal, 2x 13w cfl lightning, planted; 2g hex for "Buddy the Betta"; Wanting a 200g +, MTS getting bad.

Cory eggs. Kewl.

Couple of options:

1) Leave them as they are. But they will be eaten unfortunately. A few may make it.
2) Very carefully scrape them of glass and place them in a breeder net (or a tumber if by chance you have one). There needs to be a nice current over the eggs but not too much.

Yep, from what I read about it just now, they are Cory eggs. And now at lunch, there seem to be less of them. I think someboby is eating them. I am now thinking to partition that section of the 10g with a glass plate, which I have and let them do whatever they will. I think I can section it off where it will still get some water flow and yet be protected from the other fish.

I have never had egg layer fish breed and grow. Even though I have about 60 baby Mollies to deal with already I think I'd love to get a group of Cory's going. I am cycling a 20g long for the Mollies and I might try to move the Cory's over there with a partition and really have some baby fish.

I am afraid if I try to move the eggs I'll kill them and of course I'd need to make sure the water parameters where the same from tank to tank if I move either the eggs or the fry.

How long will it take for them to hatch? Should they show eyes or something soon? Is it possible that the female laid the eggs but they are not fertile? They are just kind of pearl white right now. The water is 78 degrees with pretty normal parms.

The eggs are so high up on the tank wall it will reduce my wc to about 2 gallons at the most without exposing the eggs to the air.

Edit to add, Yes this is a run on thread! ;-) I had a pane of glass I was going to use as a background so I took it and put it in on a diagonal for that corner of the tank with the top just under water so that it get flow. For some of the stray eggs that were outside the pane I used my fingertip and moved them. They were harder in texture than I expected and pretty sticky. I just placed them next to the big cluster. I started counting them and there are just about 100. Keeping my fingers crossed. Did the male fertilize them right after the female laid them? I hope I have not prevented him from doing his job!

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60g tall, all artificial plants, Rainbow tank; 55g for African Cichlids. 20g long for fry; 20g hex, 2 black Angels at my desk; 10g planted, with 50 Molly fry; 10 gal, 2x 13w cfl lightning, planted; 2g hex for "Buddy the Betta"; Wanting a 200g +, MTS getting bad.

No real success on the Cory eggs. A bunch hatched little fry but a bunch got a fungus and died. For awhile, I could see little cat fry swimming around on the bottom but now I see none. I think they either died or escaped the glass partition and the other fish ate them.

In hindsight, I should have carefully scraped them from the glass and put them in a breeder container or into another tank buy themselves. Oh well. Live and learn. I had really looked forward to having a school of Cats. I like the Emeralds and may just do a species tank with them. From what I read, the adults do not eat the eggs or fry so I might get lucky with a species tank.

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60g tall, all artificial plants, Rainbow tank; 55g for African Cichlids. 20g long for fry; 20g hex, 2 black Angels at my desk; 10g planted, with 50 Molly fry; 10 gal, 2x 13w cfl lightning, planted; 2g hex for "Buddy the Betta"; Wanting a 200g +, MTS getting bad.