My Angel LAYED HER EGGS!!!!!!!!!&#

[ChriX]

When are we gonna get some pics then silver?

 

[Mesome]

Hi Silver!
I live in North Bend...what about you?

How exciting! Can't wait to see the pictures! WHERE ARE THEY?

 

[gixer]

Hee hee Lobster......... I can tell where your head is today!!

gixer......my Angels don't mind a bit really, they have become very accustomed to me and my photos....... and I only took 3 yesterday!! Thanks for caring though!!

did they tell you that?

how do you know this?. im just being cautious.

 

[silver]

I live in Spokane

Well ya know gixer...... You can kind of tell when a fish is bothered At least you can most of the time and these two weren't bothered a bit as far as I could tell.......if they would have showed any signs at all that they were uneasy or scared or stressed I would have stopped


Plus, you get to see them so UTSHAY UPAY!!!!

I said I would write more about my Angel experience later, so it's later and here I go:

My 2 Black Angels always seemed to be "paired" up ever since I got them really, which was over a year ago. They usually swim together and don't really pick on each other too much. Well, after I got my 29 gallon tank and took one of the lights from my 55 and used it for my 29, my 55 gallon now only has one light on the right half. My two black Angels are in my 55, 21 inch tall tank. They live there with 4 Silver Dollars who prefer subdued lighting and a baby pleco who I'm sure doesn't mind the half lit and half unlit tank. After I took one of the lights out my 2 Angels started acting a little strange. They dominated the dark end of the tank and started "pecking" at any fish that would come over to that end, except at feeding time and then they would act as though they didn't care much. Well, I got on here and started asking for advice because I initially wanted the darker end to be for my Silvers but the Angels had taken it over and were starting to be mean. CFC told me I should put a plant "wall" up from front to back of tank on that darker end so the Angels would have their little "area" and the other fish would have their bigger "area". I did this and the other fish sort of left the Angels' area alone. Well, about 1 week ago I noticed that my female (now confirmed ) Angel, which is the smaller one, was getting FAT in the belly area and when I say fat I mean FAT like pregnant. So I started paying closer attention to them. About 48 hours ago, or so, they decided to spend their time in the lighted end of the tank don't ask me why but they did. They also started to peck at the glass to "clean" it I suppose. So I made a pexi-glass divider and stuck it in the tank giving them a space about 10" wide, 12" deep and 21" high. An hour after I stuck the divider in the female started sticking her sticky eggs on the glass where they had been cleaning. She'd make a pass and then the male (hopefully) would make a pass, they both had their little tubes out. After every pass she'd make he would go behind her. The few eggs that would get knocked off in the process were eaten. She continued doing this passing act throughout the evening and is doing it today too. I believe this is how she is "fanning" the eggs. The male is doing it once in a while, but for the most part he is just wandering around his little space . Now, after 36 hours about a dozen of the 100-200 eggs are white.....that's not too many I don't think. I can't see a little black thing in the eggs either, not yet anyhow.

 

[Mesome]

Hi Silver!
In the fish breeding section someone was talking about angel fish fry. Thought you may want to check it out!
How are they doing?

http/fish.orbust.net/forums/index.php?sh...showtopic=31508

 

[silver]

Thanks for that Mesome!!

It's been 36 hours now and same as last post in that the eggs are still there and there is only about a dozen white ones out of 100 + eggs. I still don't see any little black dots inside the eggs........I wonder if they were fertilized correctly

 

[Dave]

Hi Silver, Although Ive never successfully bred my Angels I have managed to get little free swimming fry. IME the mummy Angel will pick the white eggs off and eat them. Those ones are dead so she will protect the other eggs.

Im suprised you can't see any black spot yet. I would give it another 24 hours, if there is still nothing Im afraid your eggs aren't fertilised

This could be due to a couple of things, a) Your male Angel is infertile, B) Your fish just need a little practice before they get it write (Don't we all? ) c) Your male is a female (I doubt it!)

Well good luck with your eggs! You have got me thinking now about putting my breeding Angels in a seperate tank turning up the temp, playing a little Barry White and watching little Angels being made

 

[Mesome]

...putting my breeding Angels in a seperate tank turning up the temp, playing a little Barry White and watching little Angels being made

 

[-=DG=-]

Hi silver, good luck if its not too late. The eggs a solid white (not see through anymore?

 

[silver]

HI DG!!!

Glad to hear from you!!!

Only a few of them are solid white, the rest still look the exact same as they did when she layed them 48 hours ago

 

[zshopa]

i bred angels for a long time and it usually takes 60 - 72 hours for them to start moving. it sounds like the eggs were in fact fertilized. if they were improperly fertilized then all of them would turn white. as for the black dots, depending on the coloration of the parents there may not be black dots but you should in the next 24 hours get some wigglers i would keep both parents with their fry and even if they eat them the first time give them a chance. it is easier to raise them when big momma is watching hehe.

let me know how it turns out and best of luck!

 

[-=DG=-]

soon you'll have more babies than you know what to do with

I remember mine got extremely agressive when they laid eggs.

 

[silver]

Thanks DG....you're still a sweetie in my book!!! )


I appreciate the positive thinking........I'm sitting here like, sheeesh, when are these guys gonna start wiggling!!??

Will the fry slip through the cracks on either side of my divider?? I wonder if I should go and buy a "real" divider??? Any thoughts??

Oh, and I know what you mean about them being aggressive.......HOLY SMOKES!! If the male does ANYTHING the Mama doesn't approve of then he gets it man and he takes it.......what a good hubby And the male is REALLY protective, I mean massively. He used to just love when I came to the tank and last night I went close to investigate the eggs and he was coming at me through the glass and I was like, "Oh, isn't that cute.......he loves me Hell No, he was out to GET MY @$$!!!!!

Oh, and DG......the Angel parents don't really seem to be that hungry......I'm feeding them little bits of Tropical Flakes 2 times a day and a little bit of shrimp pellets every day and they don't seem very interested! Is this normal behavior?? Should I be concerned??

 

[silver]

Update here:

It's been a tad over 48 hours and there are about 2 dozen white eggs now and the other eggs look exactly the same as they did?

 

[Mesome]

Are they eating the white ones?