Oscars laid eggs

**marcel** · 03-05-2011

So, knowing that my oscars never lay eggs when we are home i threw a blanket over the tank. and withing 7 hours they had laid eggs. not sure what to do know i'v tryed to get them to hatch in the past with no luck, not sure if they are mules or not. anybody have any tips for me to try and get some fry out of this.?
thanks.....tryin up upload pics

**Adz1** · 03-05-2011

wow.
i have no tips for you but wish you the best of luck with this project....

**Canadian_Aqua_Farm** · 03-05-2011

Your best chacne to get fry is to remove the eggs and hatch them in a seperate tank.

**marcel** · 03-06-2011

Originally Posted by Canadian_Aqua_Farm

Your best chacne to get fry is to remove the eggs and hatch them in a seperate tank.

Yea i'v tryed that in the past but not sure if i was doin it right or if i had the temp set right, this time i though i'd leave them for a couple days to let them do all the work them take em out if i think they might be a sign of them hatching.

**marcel** · 03-06-2011

Theres always that chance that they arnt fertile, is there a way to tell?

**Canadian_Aqua_Farm** · 03-07-2011

You can tell by the colour of the egg. Fertile eggs will be tan and around 48 hours they will start to show some tiny black pigment inside. Infertile eggs will be opaque white.

**marcel** · 03-07-2011

UPDATE..........at around 9 last night i saw the first egg start to move and within minutes a lil tail poked out, now theres hundreds of lil tails. their all fightin to get out of the eggs. On the last day i started to notice a lil black dot showing in the egg. then within hours they all started movin, so looks like i have hundreds of new fish, givin they live!.

**marcel** · 03-08-2011

Fry are doin great, hundreds and hundreds still swimming around the bottom.
colours changeing, starting to notic a black spine developing on their backs.
looks like the bottom of the tank is alive..Still 80-90% alive and thriveing.

Will have update'd pics soon

**Canadian_Aqua_Farm** · 03-08-2011

Congratulations, the fun part starts now

Thats a lot of little mouths to feed. Good luck with raising them!

**marcel** · 03-09-2011

thanks, and yes there are to many mouths to feed, and i though havin one 3year old was enough. now i have 800 kids haha

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