Do Females lay eggs without Males?

[Spink]

I have heard that an egg-laden female can re-absorb her eggs if she's not ready to spawn, but do they lay eggs even if there is no male to fertilize them?

I have a brackish tank - mollies, a platy, 2 khuli's, 1 skunk loach, an African butterfly fish, and 3 bumblebee gobies.

A while ago when I did a water change I found some eggs under some Java moss, and i took them out and tried to get them to hatch in a separate container with an air-stone etc. I have no idea if they were fertile, but after 7 days they didn't hatch so i gave up and tossed them.

My guess is they were from the bumble's as these are the only fish who seem to look like they are full of eggs.

Problem is all three look fat, so i think all three are female. Would they lay eggs even if there wasn't a male present?

I'm currently trying to fatten them up with live foods to enduce them to spawn again, but what if they are all girls? Will they just lay eggs and get no where with them?

[Tsarmina]

what colour were the eggs??

[Stella]

I have had two different bullies spawn when there was no male in the tank.

Unfertilised eggs would go cloudy at around 24hours.

Some fish can do it, some can't. Inanga are known to die or explode (seriously) from being eggbound.

[MarkLB]

I've had a solo Sterbai Cory lay eggs.