Are these eggs?

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baburelli

Discussion Starter · Apr 20, 2017

This morning I found several areas in my aquarium with, what looks like, little white dots among some fluff that wasn't there the night before. I have some live bearing fish, 6 Otos, 5 Amonos and some other shrimp. Oh and a Malaysian Trumpet snail but they are live bearers as well. It's a real mystery to me! I hope that someone here will recognize them.

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Summerland_Aquatics

· #2 · Apr 20, 2017

Looks more like fungus growing on detritus than eggs. its possible the shrimp or the fish dredged it up from behind something and then the current moved it to where it's at now.

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baburelli

Discussion Starter · #3 · Apr 21, 2017

Thanks for your reply. I managed to vacuum most of it up and hopefully it won't see it again. Would it be overfeeding that caused this?

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Summerland_Aquatics

· #4 · Apr 25, 2017

baburelli said:
Thanks for your reply. I managed to vacuum most of it up and hopefully it won't see it again. Would it be overfeeding that caused this?

Just feeding in general will cause this. Detritus is made up of decaying organics (fish food, fish waste, plant matter, etc.) and will build up over time. the best thing to do is suck it out of the tank with each water change. It's not directly harmful to fish, but the byproducts produced by the bacteria are.

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