I'm not sure I want to separate the eggs or not. I know it would be better but I don't want to take their eggs away from them. Would it be possible to let's say catch some and leave some with the parents? I don't want to ruin anything though.
What do you mean by "Better"?
Q:Is it "better" to leave the eggs with their parents?
A#1: If you don't care what happens to the eggs or the other fish in the tank, YES, it's better.
A#2: If the parents always eat the eggs, it isn't better to leave the eggs if you want to have fry.
A#3: If you don't know whether they are fertile or not, it is not "Better" to leave them with the parents.
A#4: If you think you are doing psychological harm to the fish, it is better to leave them.
In truth, fish lose spawns in the wild every day. It's why they spawn so frequently and why it's ingrained into them to spawn frequently. Mostly what happens is that the parents resign themselves to another lost spawn and prepare themselves to spawn again. Just like with annual flowers, if you cut off the spent flowers before they had gone to seed (known as deadheading), the plant will produce more flowers. Continue deadheading and you will continue getting more blooms. The same goes with your fish. Fish raising young will delay the next spawning until they are done with the current batch that haven't swum away yet. Once they have gone, the parents prepare for the next spawn having no regard for the babies that just left.
So is it better?
Parents guarding eggs will attack the other fish in the tank to protect their spawn. Is that better?
If you are trying to deliberatley raise some babies, isn't it better to know that this pair can produce living babies than waste a bunch of time and money on a pair that will be better off as an exhibition pair than a breeding pair?
So you tell me.... is it "Better"?
Finally, if you wanted to split the spawn, you'd need to have the fish spawn on 2 separate surfaces so that you could remove one and not damage the other. (HINT: That doesn't happen often with smaller fish like Rams.
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Just something to think about