Oscar fish breeding

[Northshore303]

My oscar fish is around 12 /14 months . Not sure what sex it is . But its gaurding a tube on the sponge filter like crazy . It looks like tiny little balls on it and allot of them . But they are all green like algae. The bigger oscar i had died about a month ago . He jumped out in the middle of night . I replaced it with a smaller oscar . The big one now is protecting that pipe like crazy . Do i need to remove and clean off that pipe . Its got air bubbles going thru it so dont know if they are really eggs or not any advice will help thank you

 

[tlindsey]

My oscar fish is around 12 /14 months . Not sure what sex it is . But its gaurding a tube on the sponge filter like crazy . It looks like tiny little balls on it and allot of them . But they are all green like algae. The bigger oscar i had died about a month ago . He jumped out in the middle of night . I replaced it with a smaller oscar . The big one now is protecting that pipe like crazy . Do i need to remove and clean off that pipe . Its got air bubbles going thru it so dont know if they are really eggs or not any advice will help thank you

Welcome aboard
Can you post a pic?

 

[Northshore303]

Of the eggs ( possibly eggs )

 

[Northshore303]

That’sit on the tube in the back ground

 

[Northshore303]

That’sit on the tube in the back ground

 

[Northshore303]

My fish is super aggressive attacking the net when i get close by it. Never did that before always freaked out when you put the net in there. Would sink to the bottom. Now it’s attacking to protect that spot

 

[Northshore303]

It would bite me if i tried to take the sponge out

 

[tlindsey]

It's hard to tell if those are eggs but possible for a lone female Cichlid to lay eggs but the eggs will not be fertile.

 

[tlindsey]

Also like to add even though eggs would be infertile the female will still protect them until they eventually go bad or she eats them.

 

[coltiger1975]

Judging behavior of your Oscar it appears to have laid eggs. My pair are super aggressive when they have eggs and fry. I would not worry about it unless other fish are being attacked.