Eggs? (Zebra Barred Dartfish)

[PotatoPig]

So my dartfish pair have been burrowing like crazy the last few days, then this morning they moved into SpongeBobs house and I presume laid eggs?

Any chance the babies will survive or is this a “food for everyone else” situation?

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Bumping your post!

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

I presume laid eggs?

Any chance the babies will survive or is this a “food for everyone else” situation?

I can't find any pics of Ptereleotris zebra eggs to compare with, but they reportedly lay demersal egg masses in burrows/caves, so there's a chance this could be their eggs.

That said, in a typical reef tank, the eggs are fish food with almost no chance of survival. You typically need a larval-rearing tank that's safe for the young (no big fish or inverts to eat them, no equipment or filtration to kill them, etc.) and that has plenty of food for them (in this case, assuming that these are Zebra-barred Dartfish eggs, I would assume you'd need some very, very small feeder pods - such as Parvocalanus crassirostris or Oithona colcarva - to have a chance at feeding them).