What to do with Spawning Angelfish

First steps, 2 choices:
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. They should be placed in a 39/30 gallon or larger (no bigger than a 55 gallon) by themselves with NO other 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.

Getting Rid of the Babies:
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.

 

Thank you!

 

I also agree personally with leaving the parents to raise the fry. It is less work and watching the parents raise is AWESOME!

BUT sometimes you have to remove them to keep the parents from eating them. Unfortunately mine just recently decided to start doing that and I only have 1 pair at the moment. Unless someone has a male they would be willing to give/sell to me I have 2 females and 1 male!

 

Its the year wait for them to mature I dont like..... Plus I really want to breed my discus.... I just took the single angel out in hopes that the discus may feel comfortable enough to breed.

I started breeding angels by mistake... I got the angels to put a bull of a male discus in his place as he was killing other discus I added to the tank. That worked then I ended up with eggs and wanted to try to make a few bucks :roll:

 

They do breed easy.... I wish my Discus were that easy to breed.

 

You could do them in a smaller tank. A 55 would hot 6 comfortably. Just need a high level of filtration and frequent water changes. Of course that wont do for breeding but to show, thats plenty.... enough water changes and filtration and you may get up to 9 in a 55. They dont swim back and forth a lot.... mostly up and down.

 

I have 1 that is 7", another 2 that are 6", 1 that is 3" (stunted by previous owner) and the rest are 5"

Wilds can grow to over 10"

 

Mine too.... tubes are out and all!

 

If you do it right they should if you get 5-6. You may even get 3 pairs with 6 is you are lucky! I would guess 2 though. They pair up REALLY easy as long as the water conditions are right!