Anyways, as the topic title says what do fertile eggs look like, cause my oscars layed eggs my 2 tiger oscars I have a 135gallon tank, 2 tiger oscars 2 albinos, a pleco, and 1 fire mouth. Anyways back to topic, my question is i have no idea what fertile eggs look like atm, and ive read all kinds of posts on this site about breeding etc. I got the right tempature my oscars are over 2 years old they layed them on a flat rock on the far left side of the tank.. And they are gaurding them pretty well (all the other fish are on the oppisate side of the tank.) Anyways but im thinking of attemping to hatch them myself, i set up a small 15 gallon tank, with some decent temp and some sand. And i got brine shrimp ready and m blue. But the only prob is I have no clue what color they eggs should be for fertile eggs, (this is there first attempt at breeding im not even sure if the male did fertalise them) But anyways i guess il find out in 3-5 days if they dont hatch then no, but now i cant put the rock in the other tank to artificially hatch them with out knowing, I basically need to see some pics of fertile eggs


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I need a pic of fertile eggs, Thanks if any of you do ^^, Oh and im new.

welcome to the site sonic

All you needed to do was look on the breeding Oscars page
www.oscarfishlover.com/index.php/Breedin...ding-Oscar-Fish.html

Fertilized Oscars eggs will be brown/tan. Unfertilized eggs are white. Having said this, fertilized eggs don't always hatch, I don't know the reason for this, could be water conditions, I really don't know. Oscars don't always get it right the first time so don't be too disappointed. Did you actually see the Oscars laying her eggs? I must inform you that two you females will act exactly the same as a breeding pair, i.e. Going through all the breeding rituals, shoveling sand, cleaning the rocks, lip locking.

The sexual organs are quite different, the males is a spike, with females is an oval shape.

Please also remember that Oscar's lay hundreds, even thousands of eggs, you may well get several hundred young that grow very quickly. Before you know it, you are over run with little Oscars, so it would be a good idea to have a plan on what to do with them.

Apart from that, good luck and keep us posted with pictures if they do hatch

Ya they were all white


Anyways they ate the eggs, so I guess il wait for them to do anouther attempt at it, and hope they actually fertalize them this time, and yes im ready for hundreads/thousands of fry i got like 12 tanks. My original plan was to keep 2-3 of the fry when they got a lil bigger. And sell the rest.

It often takes them a few attempts to get that right. The next time you see them laying eggs,try and observe their sexual organs, just to make sure you do have a male and a female. Many people just don't understand why they don't hatch, and then they realize that they have got two females