What a great breeding tank

Wow, I need to go away more often!

I left for a week and had my wife feed the fish. She excitedly called the third day I was away with news she was seeing eggs everywhere in the tank. We have had angels breed before, so I wasn't as excited as her until she explained that these eggs were pink like salmon roe. It appears we have a group of cory cats breeding in the tank. I found another batch of eggs on the glass top 12mm (about a half inch) out of the water.

260 gallon freshwater with wet/dry filter 2 ebo jager 250 watt heaters (yuk)

13 clown loaches 4 full mature angels over a dozen varied size convicts (they won't stop breeding) various guppies that avoid the angels mouth 3 cory cats 3 julie cory

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Snail eggs .......... Frank

Yep, snail eggs. Fish could't lay above the water line could they? But I know Apple snails do and that their eggs can be pink.

Yes - cory eggs are clear and stuck in small groups (under water) - grin.......

Thank You, we were wondering what was breeding, but never thought that the apple snails were breeding. I will have to go tell Jen.

When I first got into the hobby, I joined a fish club and a couple of the older guys took me 'under their wing.' Both these guys had a basement full of tanks, breeding pairs of both egg layers and livebears - show quality fish, and trophies to prove it. It took me 4 weeks to buy the tanks and supplys I needed for what they called a 'starter set-up' - 6, 29 gal. grow out tanks and the 2' X 4' racks that held them, an air pump that would move a *lot* of air (used a lawn mower motor) sence everything (filters/airstones/etc.) were air driven. Heaters, lighting on a timer, glass tank covers, brine shrimp hatcherys (5 gal. glass water jugs with a 6' hole drilled through their bottom, brin shrimp stands, nets, air hose, air valves, 'Y' hose (to hook hot and cold water to one hose), 50' garden hose, thermomiters, dechlorinator, 6 different kinds of foods, fry foods, a few medications - and the list went on (I'm sure), but I wanted to get into fish breeding - O, did I say, I was 18 years old, two jobs (so I made enough money to get a house loan), house loan, car loan, wife, etc. - well, remember the two guys from the fish club - after a month I had everything set-up and ready to go. These guys wanted to check out the set-up before they each gave me a few 100 eggs to get me started - you guessed it, I really took care of those apple snail eggs, then the snails for well over a month before I figured it out. See, I could have had you and Jen buying the pet shops out, getting ready for the 'fish' fry! - I did, grin....... Frank

Did you sneak back and chuck all the snails back in their tanks No, actually I would have put the snails in their beds!

That was almost 40 years ago, we are still friends today, pulling a little joke on one another once in a while. At this point, I'm one up on the both of them. I'm in construction and have built a lot of larger fish tanks. Got a chance to get about 40 sheets of 1/4' glass 30' X 72' that had a slight rainbow in them (discolored from getting wet and let to sun dry while still stacked togeather). After I got them home, the time came to make a tank. 30' is to high for 1/4' glass to hold the pressure. Cutting the first sheet, I soon found it was tempered and couldn't be cut - the whole stack was made for glass doors. I had the wife call Elvis (one of the snail guys) and tell him she wasn't going to allow me to build another tank and put it in the basement - if he wanted the glass before she broke it, to get it out of there before I got home from work. Grin, he did (made 4 trips hauling it), stored the glass in his garage for a few months before he got around to trying to cut it. Finding out I had pulled a fast one on him, he then called Ed (the other snail guy) and gave him the same story. Almost a year later, Ed calls me with the glass story (the one with the wife not letting him build another tank) trying to pass the junk glass off on me. A joke that was a year in the making, but a good one...... Frank

Funny story Frank.

Oh excellent!! I love it!! Mind you, I'm glad I'm not your friend )