angelfish eggs (Care Advice Wanted)

Re: angelfish eggs

It should. make sure you are using an antifungal I prefer to use peroxide but other use methyl blue. good luck

 

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I have never been successful with my angels eggs. So I would hate to even begin giving you advice there.

 

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I transferred mine out to a 10 gal when I had angels...I put the eggs in one of those mesh hanging breeder nets from walmart and did the blue, I also placed an airstone just below the breeder net and put it on extremely fine. Eggs hatched and became wigglers...but then lost most of them after wiggler stage. Mind you this was quite some time ago and I don't exactly remember the specifics of the nursery setup (parameters, water temperature). I do however remember keeping it a bit higher than the parents water temp (I think by 2 degrees per recommendations of my lfs store at the time) & feeding VERY finely crushed tropical flake food (again per my lfs store at the time).
~Good Luck with yours! You'll have to keep us posted

 

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Sorry, I have been away for a while.... Do you have any other fish in the tank with the Angels? If you do, then you have some harder work to do, if not, leave them alone and the parents should tend the eggs.

 

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They will! Here are your options:
1 - Remove the pair that is laying eggs into a separate tank with no other fish. This is your best option but there still is a chance that the parents will eat there own eggs. That all depends on the personality of the individual fish.
2 - Remove the eggs after they have been laid. You have to keep an eye on what is going on. Angelfish will keep spawning every 3-5 days if they do not have to raise their babies. Moving the babies can be tricky depending on what the parents lay them on. If they lay on a plant/rock like mine like to do, the best thing is to take off the leaf/rock they laid on and put it into a bucket while NEVER taking the eggs out of the water in other words put the bucket/cup into the tank and move the leaf/rock and place it into a smaller tank such as a 10 gallon WITH NO SUBSTRATE. Note: you WILL loose more babies this way as good parents keep the eggs free of fungus. Methaline Blue is a great way to treat your smaller tank you keep the eggs in but you still will loose many.

If any eggs fall off because there is no substrate they should be fine, dont worry about it.

Feeding and Care of Angelfish Fry
Day 1 - Eggs are laid / move eggs to new tank if you want to raise
Day 2 - Infertile eggs will turn white, fertile ones will look reddish/opaque - change 5-10% water
Day 3 - More eggs will turn white and some will get fluffy (fungus) - change 5-10% water treat changed water with Methaline Blue
Day 4 - Eggs "hatch" and will wiggle thus the stage called "Wigglers" - change 5-10% water treat changed water with Methaline Blue
Day 5 - Still in "Wiggler" stage - change 5-10% water treat changed water with Methaline Blue
Day 6 - Some wigglers will try free swimming but even those that do will be no good at it. - change 5-10% water treat changed water with Methaline Blue
Day 7 - Most wigglers will be free swimming and some will be better than others - change 5-10% water treat changed water with Methaline Blue
Day 8 - Most wigglers will be moving all around the tank. This day you can start feeding if you wish. You dont have to I usually wait until they are moving around well before I feed. When you do decide to start feeding here is the food they will eat that worked for me at this age: Hikari Frozen Baby Brine Shrimp. They say you get better results if you hatch your own Brine Shrimp but I dont have the time to do that myself. Feed 2 times a day.

I personally do not use the methaline blue but my parents raise the young which makes my life that much easier. The key is not to do too much to them.

Here is some added things I do if you get them to live this long:
Around 2 weeks - I mix feeding Baby Brine Shrimp for a feeding and "Hikari First Bites" for another.
Around 3 weeks - I remove the baby brine shrimp from almost all feedings only giving it a time or 2 a week
Around 5 weeks - No more frozen baby brine. Full diet of Hikari First Bites

Eventually I ween off of the first bite into a crushed/powdered tropical flake diet. My dry food is a crushed/powdered mixture of Tropical Flakes and Cichlid Granuals.

Most pet stores will buy the babies once they are between the size of a dime and a nickel. Some want them larger too where they are the size of a quarter of a half dollar. That you have to ask.

 

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That is good. Prepare for a HUGE loss. In the end the 135 free swimmers will be about 25-50 juveniles depending on how well you care for them! Not trying to be mean but that is about how I seem to have it work. If you do better, let me know what you did!

 

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My advice is to not dwell on the fact that any survive etc, just be happy your fish are spawning and healthy and if some do survive well thats just a bonus!

 

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I agree with Nelson! You will loose a lot! Some are your fault and some are not. It takes you just as long to figure out how to care for them and what to do as it does the fish to get it right.

Again, dont over-do it. It does not take that much work. The more you do the more of a chance you have of making a mistake. Let the fish do the work, just keep the water taken care of.