Well i got home today and i noticed a bunch of little eggs on the floor of my tank. I've read about breeding and i know some basic info about it. I know that my fish will eat the eggs and i noticed that they were. So, i set up a 3 gallon tank(with only 6 inches of water in it) without a filter and scooped up the gravel with the eggs, i left about half the eggs in the origanal tank because i didn't know if the air would kill them. So, heres the situation, i have the 3 gallon tank with half the eggs in it and a 35 gallon with the other half of the eggs and my 6inch female and 5 inch male. the question is, what do i do? will my eggs actually hatch? will the air have killed them? do i need a larger tank?

Any thoughts and tips on breeding and raising my eggs to fish will be apreciated, thanks

i was hoping somebody could respond. Anything will help.

Your eggs hatching will depend on whether or not they were fertilized by the male. As far as a larger tank goes, if the eggs do hatch, you will soon need a larger tank as the little ones grow quickly.