My parents always have problems with the babies once they go free swimming but i have them in a community tank. Personally what i think you need to do is either steal the frys when they are wrigglers or put the parents in a tank by themselves. Also if you want the parents to raise them it is a learning process and it will take 4 to 8 spawns for them to get anywhere. In my community tank they can now reliably raise them till free swimming as long as i leave the lights on in the room (not the tank lights) at night. Yes fishes have good eye sight and a little bit of light work miracles. This is my tank - the black one on the left (barely visible in the shadows) and the platinum are the parents of the others (the off springs are black and gold with one black having a clown fin):
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If you do steal the frys it is imperative that the tank be kept extremely clean and you siphon out uneaten food and dead frys using a turkey blaster or eye dropper (you can also use a snail to eat the uneaten food). Also you need to have a plan. While it is fun to raise the frys you will have a lot (i only did it once and i had 50 survive and 10 deaths - i just don't have room for more angels right now but i want to breed specific pairs when i have the space). It is hard to imagine that these large angels once looked like:
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If you do steal the frys it is imperative that the tank be kept extremely clean and you siphon out uneaten food and dead frys using a turkey blaster or eye dropper (you can also use a snail to eat the uneaten food). Also you need to have a plan. While it is fun to raise the frys you will have a lot (i only did it once and i had 50 survive and 10 deaths - i just don't have room for more angels right now but i want to breed specific pairs when i have the space). It is hard to imagine that these large angels once looked like:
![xx.jpg xx.jpg](https://www.fishforums.net/data/attachments/126/126489-046ce7ca970ae2234bdb4e7f18f9f406.jpg)