How to care for fish eggs and some parrot cilchilds fish egg quesitions?

Question

I had 4 parrot cichilds but one died after this so now I only have 3. But I woke one morning and found in the fish tank, hundreds of eggs on rocks and other hard surfaces. Assuming that the parent fish will protect the eggs, I let them be and waited. But the next day, all of the eggs were gone except for a few, so I put up a fish net wall type thing to separate the eggs from the fishes but they all died out later. Shortly after, on of the fishes died and now there are only 3 parrot cilchilds. Can someone explain to me what happened? Are fish eggs rare because I have never seen this before? What precautions should I make in case there are eggs again? There was hundreds of eggs, do all of them hatch? Because I don't think I could fit hundreds of fish in that tank. Someone help, please!

Answer 1

If you have blood parrots they tend be infertile so that may be what happened,if the eggs where infertile the parents probably ate them although in recent times I have heard of some breeding.If you get eggs again just leave them alone don't try to move them as that is quite likely to harm them.