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black_ca_scorpio asked in PetsFish · 8 years ago

Weird egg looking thingys on filter after buying live plants.?

I have a 20G long aquarium that I've had set up for over a year now that I just purchased some live plants for a few days ago. I didn't take them out of their pots until just today. When I got back home hours later, I happen to notice a bunch of small egg like thingy's stuck to my filter. Tripped out for a bit because I didn't know what they were. Looked on yahoo answers and someone else had a similar question & received a response that they could be snail eggs. Is there any truth to that? How come I didn't see all these eggs when I was busy taking the plants out of their pots? I usually take off as much of the pot stuffing as I can b4 putting plants in my tank. My tank currently has one angel fish & one black skirt tetra. I had more fish, but I'm currently in the process of switching over to a mostly planted aquarium with small tetra/guppy sized fish. Will be taking out the angel fish since I will add shrimp to the tank. I feed the two fish in their flakes. So I doubt the eggs are food pellets which someone else mentioned on y answers. My tank also has black beauty sand.

I actually do remember seeing one tiny live snail on my aquariums glass shortly after buying the plants. Didn't think nothing of it. I don't mind because I also thought about having some snails in the tank. Should I get rid of most of them? And if I do, how would I go about doing that? Would I have as many snails in my tank as their are eggs? Below are links to a pic of my filter & the 3 plants I purchased, since I can't remember their names. I just know one is baby tear.

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http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b210/BlackCaScor...

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  • Dan M
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    They certainly look like angelfish eggs. If a female has no mate she will still lay the eggs, just as a hen will lay eggs even if there is no rooster around. In some rare cases female cichlids have fertilized their own eggs, but this oddity is still unknown in angelfish which are a cichlid species too.

    Eventually the infertile eggs will turn white and then get covered with fungus or fall apart. The female angelfish may spend some time trying to care for the eggs until that happens, fanning them and picking dirt off them.

    One of the plants looks like Aglaonema simplex, a shade loving terrarium plant that will grow with its roots in the edge of a pond but its leaves must be above water since it can only survive temporary flooding. It is sometimes sold as "Brazilian Sword", a fake name.

    Anubias heterophylla has a similar leaf, but it is very leathery and tough and comes from a thick sturdy horizontal rhizome that should be attached to driftwood or a rock and not buried in sand or gravel which usually kills the plant. It is amphibious, tolerating long periods of submersion and even growing and blooming underwater with small white calla type flowers.

    Another plant looks like Bacopa monniera, a true aquatic. It is long and leggy in your photo, usually a result of low light. The pinkish plant could be another Bacopa cultivar or a hybrid. Mixing real and plastic plants is fine. Sometimes the plastic ones get algae on them. Some look close to real and others are artistic.

    Then there is your baby tears, usually an easy plant to grow underwater.

    Source(s): I have bred angelfish since 1969 and grown aquatic plants since 1969.
  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    I actually think those are Angelfish eggs! If you have a lone female you do not need to worry about them hatching, and she will eat them in time. If you got snails into your tank chances are they are either malaysian trumpet snails, pond snails, or ramshorn snails. The MTS are livebearers, and Pond and Ramshorn snails eggs look like this

    http://www.planetinverts.com/pondsnaileggs.jpg

    This, on the other hand, is an example of what Angelfish eggs look like

    http://www.fishyreview.com/img/counting/1270-eggs_...

  • 8 years ago

    Those are for sure not snail eggs! Looks like you will have some fry!

    Source(s): Snail breeder.
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