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Whatever the thing that cleans the water or whatever well can it suck up frog eggs. I think my frogs are mating and i must know.

What kind of frogs are you talking about? Some sort of totally aquatiq species (Pipidae)? Hymenochirus or Xenopus?
If that is the case, I guess their is a possibillity that it will, though the filter I had didn't really suck in things that were on the surface (Mainly plant debris).
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CokeOfMan

I got 4 fire bellied frogs right now, they live on land and water, but mostly in or near the water

What kind of filter do you have and it would help if you could describe where the intake is in proportion to where the eggs are/will be. Do you have a power filter (i.e. Whisper, Aquaclear, Penguin), a canister filter (Fluval, XP*), Undergravel, Sponge, Sump, etc.

It's aqua clear it's near the gravel and near the water like inbetween

The eggs will probaly be near the filter but maybe not. It just depends where they have their eggs.

With the intake near the gravel, the possiblity is certainly there. Although the suction is not as strong as a canister filter, if the eggs were not secure they could be sucked up.

here is some info i copied and pasted for you about eggs

If mating is successful females will deposit their 40 - 110 eggs either individually or in small clumps of 4 - 25 eggs very close to the water surface where the warmth of the sun (spotlight) can aid embryo development. It is advisable to remove the eggs to a separate 90cm aquarium (per 100 eggs) containing 20 - 30cm of cool (60 - 65°F.), well-oxygenated and most importantly fresh water. Within 5 - 8 days the 6mm black tadpoles hatch out to spend the first week of their life clinging inanimately to the glass sides, plants or rocks while absorbing their yolk sac. Development is quite rapid and within a fortnight tadpoles will be 20mm and using their cusp-like mouthparts to feed on strips of raw meat, trout pellets, fish flake and chopped earthworm. Bombina tadpoles are very distinctive on close observation; they have a projection from the belly called a spiracle which is in effect a gill opening, and the cream coloured intestines are visible through the ventral surface. B.bombina tadpoles also have a triangular shaped mouth; in B.variegata it is more elliptical while in B.maxima and B.orientalis it is almost round. During such quick growth large amounts of waste are expelled with partial and complete water changes recommended every 2 - 3 days and 2 weeks respectively. After 6 - 8 weeks hind limbs begin to appear, one from the spiracle which marks the beginning of lung development. Tadpoles can frequently be seen surfacing where they will take gulps of air. In B.maxima tadpoles their will already be signs of the fiery belly. Tadpoles will have reached their peak size; 3½ - 4cm in all species except B.maxima whose tadpoles are surprisingly just 2½ - 3cm.
After 8 - 14 weeks the tadpoles enter a critical phase when they begin to metamorphose into a fully air-breathing amphibians. In all species the characteristic belly pigmentation becomes visible - weak lemon coloured in B.variegata, orange-yellow in B.bombina and B.orientalis. At this point the water must be lowered to around 4 - 8cm and plenty of easily egressible rocks and logs must be provided.

Toadlets climbing onto land often have large remnants of the fleshy tail existing and remain semi-aquatic for several days thereafter. They are quite minuscule, just 7mm in B.maxima to 12mm in B.orientalis.
For the first few weeks of their land-based life Bombina toadlets can prove quite difficult to raise. They are best removed to plastic ice-cream tubs with a secure but well-ventilated lid containing a base of soaking kitchen tissue paper. Initially they require very small foods such as aphids, fruit fly, whiteworm, hatchling crickets, bloodworm and hatchling waxworm which should be offered as regularly as possible. Frequently dusting the food with a proprietary multivitamin powder can also prove advantageous. After 4 weeks the toads will be 15mm in size (18mm in B.orientalis) and over the ensuing weeks B.maxima will begin to grow more rapidly. All species except B.variegata should be given plenty of water crustaceans and bloodworm to promote the orange/red coloured belly.

THanks you 2 for the info. i might just take the filter thing out for awhile just in case.