Egg Eaters??

[Midnite76]

Hi All

I just lost my first batch of Peppy eggs (devo :cry: ) as the eggs just seemd to have disappeared.

I have three in a fry saver which I found on the gravel & must have been kicked out . The rest were inside a log. Came home today no eggs and empty log. Ones in fry saver only just hatched last night.

I also have 3 x L333 (5-6cm) and 3 x L201 (4-5cm) in the tank with the Pepps.
Could one of these, I'm thinking L333, be responsible for the missing eggs?
I may have to seperate these guys pending your thoughts.....

Thanks
Dion

 

[Brengun]

I don't know about eating eggs but peps are very good at kicking eggs out. They wouldn't last long once other fish spotted them rolling about.

 

[Midnite76]

Thanks Bren

I know they can be prone to kick them out, Just wasn't 100% certain that other small ones like my L333's would eat them.
I was probably hoping more that they wouldn't.

Guess it is time to split them up.
More tanks here I come hehe...

Thanks for at least confirming my suspicions

 

[Brengun]

Its the swishing of the males tail does it, moves the gravel from near the front of the cave and bingo, cave tilts toward the opening.
What I did was get a bit of flattish rock and buried it in the gravel just with a few mm sticking out and rested the log on that. Now it stays tilted with the opening higher than the rear and eggs are harder to swish out.

 

[Joby]

Agree if you can angle the cave slightly upwards it can help with vigorous wafting from the male pushing the eggs out. If any eggs do get wafted out anything will scoff them. Perhaps the male thought they weren't fertilized properly and kicked them on purpose :dk: hopefully he will gain experience and you'll get better results in the future :thumbup: