Topic: is it safe to do a water change with eggs in the tank???

[icefisherman]

WOW!!!!! Lots of questions in this....

Yes you can do partial water changes, but be careful, in fact, you probably want to do them rather frequently, just because of the baby fish, I would say twice a week, 10-20 percent each time.  Just stay clear of eggs and fry.

As far as food goes, I would use a liquid fry food, or the dry fry food, both are good, but I believe the liquid will do better getting to the fry, the dry tends to stay up top for a while...However, you don't need to worry too much about the fry getting food, because you will probably find the parents chewing up some of their food and spitting towards the fry so they can eat as well

Those are definutely eggs in the picture, I had the same setup in my 55, to include the clay pot   

[convict artist]

i have been doing water changes twice a week about 10% and it works out pretty well cause i noticed that the mom moves the eggs from one pot to other sometimes twice a day and one pot is on the left side and one is on the right side, so when there on the left i clean the right and when there on the right i clean the left, and i feed them with sinking shrimp pellets that are ground to dust, the fry are wigglin' and look like they have tails but can only kinda jump it looks like, but should be swimming in no time at all.