Angel Fish Help!

[SGGT]

I just relised that there are eggs that our angel fish gave birth because they are pressing it down agaist our filter, heres some pictures:

i need help bacause i have no idea what to do and i want to keep the babies

(Just to say the pictures are tilted to the side )

 

[Corleone]

The parents will take care of the eggs, and the fry at first. Don't be alarmed if they eat them, they usually mate for life and will try again, it sometimes takes a few spawns for them to learn how not to eat their babies.

You'll probably want a separate tank to rear the fry. What do you plan to do with them? Try to sell them to the LFS, or keep them all? You'd probably need several good sized tanks if you were going to try to keep a lot of them. If you're going to sell them, one good sized tank should do, use mature media from this tank to start it, and between spawns, run it on the main tank to keep it cycled.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

here's one of our FAQ topics on the subject of angelfish breeding which will help you enormously. it's written by one of our members who is a professional angelfish breeder so he really knows his stuff!!

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=96104

 

[SGGT]

The parents will take care of the eggs, and the fry at first. Don't be alarmed if they eat them, they usually mate for life and will try again, it sometimes takes a few spawns for them to learn how not to eat their babies.

You'll probably want a separate tank to rear the fry. What do you plan to do with them? Try to sell them to the LFS, or keep them all? You'd probably need several good sized tanks if you were going to try to keep a lot of them. If you're going to sell them, one good sized tank should do, use mature media from this tank to start it, and between spawns, run it on the main tank to keep it cycled.

Yesh i know i not going to keep them all because i heard things that they go aggersive if lots of them together but yea, and just to ask do fish shops buy fish?

 

[chesterscot]

great article by tolak thanx for the link miss w
scot

 

[waterdrop]

great article by tolak thanx for the link miss w
scot

Yeah, Tolak is in demand. MW and I are wishing he'd surface and see my question over in the new world cichlids about angel history. Man did he send me off to a bunch of good reading on his post in that thread...

~~waterdrop~~

 

[Miss Wiggle]

mmmmm keep meaning to pick up those links and read them through properly, time and effort in short supply at the moment though.