what plecs have clear eggs?

[Irene0100]

I hate to say this but I think i just lost some eggs down the sink! :cry:

well they look like plec eggs but are clear and not yellow- so I did not see them in the bucket of water I emptied into the sink! are they fish eggs is teh big question!

only some bits of leaf in the plughole stopped some going down -I did not see them as sink was slowly emptying. when I came back to sink with another bucket I suddenly saw what looks like eggs in the plughole!hmy:

I cant even be sure which tank it came from! as I was working my way round the tanks. the last tank I did was the L134 tank.

At first I thought, cant be -they are not yellow, they also seemed to be not completely round, like little points on the ends and 3 were strung together, so I thought must be some silicone beads or something (heaven knows where from) , then maybe they had only just been laid?? probably not even fetilised.
so I squashed one, and it had liquid inside, so not like a lump of silicone.

so I have put in a fry saver. when I shine a torch at them they look opaque so I thought must be dead, but when you look they are clear, so must be torch light refracting inside them.

I shall probably have a good laugh when I work out what they are!

 

[windy]

do you have a zeb tank, zeb eggs are white
134 eggs are normally yellow

 

[Irene0100]

ooh - I do have a zeb tank but it was cleaned hours before I found these eggs - so they would have died of cold by now, but would be good if they are starting to breed!
I just did not see them in the water!!!

 

[windy]

i used to find empty egg cases from my 134s around the tank they were strung together and clear so check the caves for any fry

 

[Irene0100]

these arent cases, they are full of fluid. cant really tell if zebs are breeding as cant see half the caves as they are hidden, and I have no lights on the tank. I did do a clean about in there today, mainly cos worried about the build up of planaria in there so was washing the worms off the bottom of stones etc

 

[windy]

i would say they are infertile eggs
what size are the eggs

 

[Irene0100]

approx .5 cm diam. if they were fertile i expect they will be dead now, but have put in fry saver and will see what they are like tomorrow.
I expect you are right cos if i have picked them up on a tank clean it means they were not in a cave with a guarding dad.
but if they have laid eggs then that means I can be more hopeful in a months time maybe!

 

[windy]

fingers crossed for next time

 

[Irene0100]

many thanks