Eggs in my tank?

On Jan 1, 7:28*am, Steve Wolstenholme
wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 07:01:16 -0600, Mike Hartigan

wrote:
Another, related question - I returned from a two week vacation on
Sunday to find these eggs. *While I was gone, the furmace quit
working for three days, and I was told that the temp in the house
dropped to 42 degrees during that time. *The tank's heater was
working, but I suspect it couldn't keep up with that. *Also, my son
(the house sitter) told me that he forgot to feed the fish for two
days in a row last week. *Perhaps this was partly to blame for the
pleco's demise. *But, aside from that, I've been led to believe that
fish can be coaxed into laying eggs by adjusting their water
temperature and feeding patterns. *Could this be one of the reasons
that the fish laid these eggs at this time?

Plecos will live for years at temperatures that many people think is
too low - like 65 degrees. Would your heater have managed that? Plecos
will also live without being fed for a week or two unless the tank is
super clean and nearly sterile. Normal tanks are full of food!

Some fish spawn when the temperature drops.

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My fish often go for a week or two unfed, and its pretty darn routine
for them to get nothing for a few days ina row all the time to, and
they do just fine. My plecos that I have are kept outside now going on
over 6 years. They are in preforms and other water features and my
water on occassion how rare does get thin coverage of ice at night. My
temps of the water usually remain in high or mid 40's during the
colder days of winter. The plecos in my marger ponds have been there
for a long time as well and they all do just fine. They usually say
60 deg is bottom line for temps, but I found thats not true. I even
have blue paradise fish that are no longer brounght indoors when temps
fall and I always miss a bunch of guppies when I move the preforms
inhabitants and it never fails I always have a topn of "left behind:
guippies come spring..........