Angelfish Eggs

[geowashlaw]

... hmmmm ... have a bunch of angelfish eggs. I have have no breeder tank or anything. Guess we'll see what happens. Is there anything I should do for them in the tank I have them in?

[rich311k]

Just wait and watch. They will lay many more times. if you decide to try and raise them you can plan for a future occurance.

[geowashlaw]

i scurried around for something to make a makeshift tank divider out of because its Sunday night and the fish store is closed ... then I decided to just take the approach you suggested. I feel sorry for the parents, as they are busily fighting off the other fish, probably to no avail. I suspect by morning most of the eggs will be goners.

[dbosman]

i scurried around for something to make a makeshift tank divider out of because its Sunday night and the fish store is closed ... then I decided to just take the approach you suggested. I feel sorry for the parents, as they are busily fighting off the other fish, probably to no avail. I suspect by morning most of the eggs will be goners.

If you want to rear angel fish babies, and if you have a 20H or larger, set it up for the parents. Do be prepared to feed baby brine shrimp for a couple of weeks. The babies will be consuming their egg yolk for about a week. After that you have to provide food. Angels used to be hard to breed, but they have been tank reared for so long now, that feeding is the only real problem.

There are hundreds of good sites online with good info.
Here are a couple of links I've read.

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The next one should say 20 gallon tanks, not 10s. 10s are too small.
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[geowashlaw]

thanks! So, if I happen to raise these things, what do I do with them?

[rich311k]

Hopefully a local store will take them for credit or maybe even cash.

[Lady Hobbs]

Mine stopped laying eggs for some reason. They probably spawned 20 times, ate the eggs every time and now don't spawn at all. Good thing I don't count on them for hauling in cash for me. :)

[WhiteDevil]

I sold off every single baby angel i had yesterday at the fish swap.
Feeding of baby angels is really easy, you use first bites, rotifers,BBS for the first two-three weeks AFTER they start to free swim.

they dont live off their egg yolks for a week, they are null of yolk sacks once they start to free swim, maybe a day later but thats it.

I breed them in a seperate breeding tank as well as a large community tank.
For every 10 pairs of angels, 1-2 pairs will rear their own young, maybe 3 pairs out of that 10 will need eggs pulled to hatch and the other 6 or so pairs will never amount to anything breeding wise.

Your best bet IF you do breed and want to get rid of them later is your local fish club, I dont even waste my time approaching shops anymore, they always want something for nothing and dont even inform the customers of the true strains or where they come from.

here is a food list with age dates
1-2 weeks old, rotifers,bbs and first bites.
3-5 weeks old, rotifers,bbs and pulversized egg flake
5+ weeks old, rotifers,bbs,bloodworms,live blackworms,egg flake, then an adult flake mix crumbled to the appropriate size

I sold off over 100 angels yesterday and have another 200 at 3 weeks old in the grow out tank.
water changes 20% daily or 50% every two days, two sponge filters and heater set at 85 degrees. I rear mine with 2wpg in a bare tank.

edit: i raise mine in 5.8ph

[geowashlaw]

I awoke this morning to find that the other fish had eaten all the eggs. After reading White Devil's post, maybe I'm not unhappy about that. That seems like a lot of work.

[rich311k]

Yes you have to decide wether or not you want them and then you have to be prepared.