Help, quick! Attack of my 2 year old!

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So my two year old son decided he wanted to get out of bed and help daddy feed the "fishylizard babies" and decided to find a bottle of Betta flake food and proceed to dump said container into my hatching tanks containing some 600+ eggs total, about half of the eggs were coated in fish flake food. We removed all we could from the eggs over a grueling 6 hour period involving a turkey baster and some swishing around, removed the eggs into containers and cleaned the tanks out... Now half of the eggs or more are unscathed with little to no fish food, however another chunk of them still has a small amount of it on the jelly coating surrounding the egg and embryo, I just can't remove it all... Are these eggs done for? It will they be fine?
 
This is mainly a matter of opinion however, i think, axy eggs are a bit tougher than we think, i would say a little bit of fish food wont effect their development. Probably best to leave them be :)
 
You might have to do some water changes on the egg-water. The flakes might foul the water a little, feeding bacteria and such.
 
How did it all go? and by the way the "fishylizard babies" is just too cute :') my little sister decided it would be fun to empty the entire packet of axy pellets into my 3ft tank -_-
 
Well so far all is fine, though I had a lot more infertile eggs than I thought, but this is her first lay after all.... The good ones are developing pretty rapidly.
 
Pics or it didn't happen :p

Congratulations on your fishylizard babies!
 
Here are some progression photos taken with my iphone
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Somewhere in this point in time my son decided to drop a whole container of fish food in the tank, hence the pink flakes
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Great pictures!!
My iPhone doesn't take macro photos that clear ever! - what series iPhone do you have?
 
Absolutely amazing!! Would be super keen to watch these guys develop if your keen on taking pics! How exciting :)
 
You take such good pictures If it is something you enjoy I would love to see more or even possibly a development timeline of your babies
 
Thanks for the kind comments guys :)
Some serious progress has been made over the last 48 hours or so...(taking off from a few hours after the last picture was taken on my photo post on the first page)
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Last night
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This morning
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Sorry I'm missing some pics inbetween... I will try and make a timeline or something later on...
 
Wow! Developmental biology in action! Just like in all the textbooks only real..... Thanks for showing your pics.
 
I couldn't agree more, please keep posting! These are amazing photos and so interesting.:)
 
Thanks guys :) they are getting more and more difficult to photograph though... Here is a small update and some other stuff

Last night
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This morning... I'm thinking this one is gonna be a wild type
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Adult tank on top, hatching tank below... Excuse the mess... I have been trying to work around this area like mad this morning
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Started up some Brine shrimp just in case since we have a cold climate and they will take longer to hatch
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This will be the area where the juveniles and larvae are kept until they find new homes...
 
Your eggs are just beautiful :) I can't wait to see the hatchlings!
 
Any updates on the fishy flake babies?



<3 >o_o< <3
 
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