Question: Eggs on rocks.

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My little girl laid her first batch of eggs! I'm excited but she's silly and instead of using the various plants I had scattered everywhere she laid a good many of them on rocks and the filter and places like that. How can I get them off without damaging them?
 
Use a thumbnail to gently scrape them off. Eggs are very hardy and coated with a layer of snot-like slime (eww), you are unlikely to damage them.
 
Cool! What about a pipette? I found a pipette that's diameter is bigger than the eggs but smaller than majority of the snot coat. Could I use that to suck them up?
 
You could use a turket baster, but the sucking action can damage the eggs and burst them. You also have the problem of the eggs being attached with the snot-slime, and they are hard to remove with a turkey baster.
 
If you gently make a rolling motion with your thumb over the egg (as if you're rolling a booger to a little ball just before launching it) it will release quite easily as well. The eggs are pretty tough, so they can handle some thumb pressure.
 
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