Help Identifying Eggs

I noticed a clump of reddish eggs which had been deposited out in the open on the aquarium gravel. The eggs were quite large, certainly not specs about the size of this O. I was expecting my Peppered Cory's to breed due to their behaviour but from what I've read and seen the eggs I had don't look like cory eggs which I'm told are small, white and usually stuck on the glass or leaves of plants. The mass was so big I thought from a distance that it was some red foam on the gravel. They can't have come from any of my other fish due to size and some being livebearers but here's what I've got...Plecs, Neon tetra's, Swordtails, Guppies and the group of Peppered Cory's. They have to be Cory eggs but can someone confirm....oh the Bristle Nose Plec got into the 'almost' enclosed and suspended net and eat them all.

I used to have a big snail that layed red eggs all around the rim of my aquarium...

- Craig

I'm sure they aren't guppies, they are a livebearer, and maybe even swords.... but the rest I'm pretty sure could lay eggs.. as for the color of them, can't help you there.. sorry...

Cory eggs are almost clear, about this size >o<, and stuck in small groups on the glass and plants...

They don't belong to any of the other fish in your tank - mabe some type of snail (?)

Well there not Angles, Discus, Or Oscars, That,s for sure, and as the 'Clean up crew' have cleaned up, I guess we will never know.. But what they do once, they will do again, only next time get them out of the tank and on there own... bassett

Thanks for this reply Frank but I don't have any snails in my tank. Having spent the last 18 months in a war with snails in my son's tank I'm careful not to introduce them. This egg thing is a mystery then. I wish I'd taken a photo of them now. I just assumed they were from the Cory's as they had breed before but I didn't see the eggs first time round only the young Cory's when they started feeding. I'm beginning to wonder if the eggs were from the two plecos I've got. I know they haven't been breed in captivity (or so I've read) but does the female lay eggs in aquaria which don't end up being fertilised by the male? Considering the other species I've got I can't think of anything else.

I had overlooked you saying you had plecos in the tank. A cluster of pleco eggs look somewhat like a bunch of grapes. Some species breed quite easy in captivity - the species I have bred, and seen breed, the eggs were yellow, and/or light green, and in a cave like setting or on the under side of a large piece of driftwood. With the amount of species, I wouldn't doubt for a second, that there are/could be red eggs. ........Frank

so you are daza too? would be nice to know 'who' to respond to, with different names and you continuing the conversation with a different name, kinda kills the continuity