Just thought id let you all know that when i got home from lunch i found that my Australe golds had been "busy". I checked the mops and wasnt really expecting to find anything as the killis that i have are still rather small. However i got a nice suprise when there was 1 egg on the golds mop.

Im off to the vet centre to see if they have any of the Methy... blue (cant spell it). Have got the egg in a chinese food container floating on top of tank.

It might only be one egg, but it sure is a start.

Since i want this egg to survive, sounds silly over only one egg, but like aquanut told me , "you have got to make every egg count"

Anyone got any suggestions on how i can help this eggs chances of surviving?

Thanks

The pet shop should have methylene blue cheaper than the vet.

we dont have any fish shops in whakatane.

The closest thing is the vet centre which has a bit of fish food, heaters and a few comets and fantails....and they dont have any methylene blue

Ill find some somehow....hopefully, as its a while until il be going to Tauranga

You don't have to use meth blue. All it does realy is stop any fungus on infertile eggs spreading to good eggs and ruining them. If you only have one it will be good or not. Just leave it and good luck.

Oh okay thanks for that, will keep it in mind, i just thought that using some more of the blue stuff would make the egg easier to see. Its in a clear chinese container floating at top of tank, it also has some air bubbles under it making it even harder to see.

Is there anything i can do to help eggs chances of survival? or is it basically a leave and hope for the best in my situation?

Hope is good. Hope for some more as it is a bit hard to breed from one fish. It will give you a practice run for when you get serious.

haha yea im definatly hopeing, i realise that one egg isnt going to do anything major in terms of fish stocks, however will give me the chance to learn, and ive only had these killis for 5 days now so cant wait to see what happens in the future.

If the egg is OK you will see the eyes in it soon, if not it will probably fungus.

I was trying to find the egg in the container and was having a bit of trouble, i placed container on top of one of my lights for my comunity tank, and could see eyes in the egg, very tiny but was able to see them