Angel Fish

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I looked into my tank today (70 gallons) and noticed my angels were laying eggs and are right now gaurding them. I've never had fish lay eggs so i have a few questions. How long will it take for them to hatch and should i get a fry net so when they do hatch they won't be eaten. Also for the ones that survive what do i feed them. Thanks
 
They will most likely eat them.Most breeders remove them from the parents and hatch them seperately using an airstone for aeration. That's why few angels know how to be good parents.About 3-4 days to hatch at which time they will lay on the bottom and absorb their yolk sacks for another 3 days. Then the school will rise up off the bottom and you can begin to feed them crushed to powder fish food or strained through cheese cloth boiled egg yolk.Fish stores should have fry food for egg layers availiable and you can try to hatch out baby brine shrimp from eggs.
 
angel fish in my experience are rubish parents compared to most other cichlids they have eaten many of my fry just after several days of becoming free swimming so best to let them breed on slate and remove it when there done. Add a little methylblue and an airstone and you should be good to go
 
Contact JuanTamad. His garage is full of breeding angelfish and he has many successfull batches of fry growing at different ages. He also sells them to wholesalers. He feeds the fry baby brine shrimp and had three batches of brine shrimp hatching out when I was there.
 
willtang3000;643219;643219 said:
angel fish in my experience are rubish parents compared to most other cichlids they have eaten many of my fry just after several days of becoming free swimming so best to let them breed on slate and remove it when there done. Add a little methylblue and an airstone and you should be good to go
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It is dependent on the parents. Like discus, they have been bred in the cube for too long. Many don't have the natural instincts to raise their young. Of the 8 pairs of breeders I have had, 2 have been good parents. These ones are even better, as they will pass on their knowledge to their offspring.
 
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