angels spawned!!!

[hellohefalump]

wow I came home today and found my angels had spawned over a leaf in my community tank. Dad (I think) was pecking at them so I separated the eggs and leaf to their own tank (I think it's approx 1 gal) with a small box filter powered by an air pump - was this the right thing to do? about two are white and the rest are clear. what am I meant to do next??

Is dad the big one and mum the smaller one? The smaller one looks a bit 'fatter' than the big one - does she have more eggs in her?

I got four angels about three months ago. One died after a week, and one failed to grow while the other two grew very fast. I figured they were more dominant than the little one so I moved him to another tank, where he is happy with lots of danios, mollies, 3 plecs and black widows (they're not nipping his fins). Am I right in thinking the two larger ones were separating off into a pair and leaving him as the loner/little one?

I've never had an egg layer spawn before, I tried but failed to breed the glowlight tetras. I never thought it'd be the angels to breed first!

 

[hellohefalump]

anyone? They're still in the same tank, Some more have turned white. The rest look ok. should I try and take out the white ones?

 

[One_Trick_Pony]

know nothing of any help mate but congrats must be doing somehtign right

 

[Mike Rathnow]

First congratulation on your first spawn. Now the first thing you need to do is remove the filter from the tank. It'll end up sucking up most all of your fry when they become free swimming. If your going to use any kind of filtration go with a sponge filter after the fry hatch and become free swimming. Your going to have to put some kind of anti fungus treatment in the water for the eggs. Methylene blue is what I use and found to work the best. Add enough methylene blue until you can't see the eggs. You need to somehow anchor the leaf to something so it doesn't float around the tank. Now put a small airstone into the tank to create a small flow of water around the eggs. You don't need a lot. So don't over do it. When the fry do hatch most all will be on the bottom of the tank as wigglers. Do not feed them until they're all or most all free swimming. After the fry are in the free swimming stage is when you want to install your sponge filter. Good luck

Mike

 

[hellohefalump]

thankyou so much! I will do that.

 

[hellohefalump]

what about water changes?

 

[Mike Rathnow]

Right now I wouldn't worry about water changes. When the fry hatch and become free swimming just make sure to remove any excess food that accumulates on the bottom. You don't want anything to rot or fungus up to polute the water until the fry start to aquire the angel fish look. When the fry get to the stage where they start looking somewhat like angels then you can start doing your water changes. The water you do take out siphoning out the excess food you can replace that. Again good luck with your angels.

Mike

 

[Seb R]

Yer methlene blue works wonders. I found that its better to try to syphon out the visible dirt whilts you have eggs, only have bigger water changes if you can make sure you dont upset hte parents (are they still in that tank with the eggs right? because sadly like all cichlids they take practice!)

oh great one on getting them to lay eggs!!

 

[Blue Lobster]

If the angels are the dominant fish in the tank they can raise the fry in the community. In about 3 weeks you should have more eggs. Once they start, they don't stop breeding.

Check this site out, it's where i get my info.

http/www.angelsplus.com/breeding.htm

Seperating the eggs will give them the most chance to survive, but plan now for what to do about 200 angelfish.

 

[hellohefalump]

I got home from college yesterday all ready to add the methelyne blue... but sadly all the eggs were covered in fungus already. They haven't hatched and I don't think they're going to. *sigh* I think next time they spawn I might leave the eggs in the community tank with the parents - I don't want 200 baby angels!! The angels are one of the most dominant fish in the community tank.