Angel wrigglers moved to ten gallon. Lighting or not?

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knifegill

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I'd like to grow algae in there for them to eat. They haven't exhausted their yolks yet, so I think it would would be worth the effort to start some algae in there. I've got a 100watt full-spectrum fluorescent on the top right now, but I've never raised angelfish fry before and am wondering if it is okay to leave the light on non-stop or if I should turn it off for a few hours at night to give them a break at the cost of expediant algal growth? I'm going to feed them egg yolk and squirts from my snail/tubifex culture (there are lots of microbiotics in that water), and there are already nematodes established in the Q tank from when it sat for a week after my Green Sunfish vanished. :( Anyway, how much light is too much?
Also, most of them are still clinging to the leaf they were moved on, but a few have fallen. Should I baster them back to the leaf or just let them wiggle on the bottom? It's pretty clean in there ATM...I plan on daily cleanings.
 
As long as the light doesn't heat the water too much then I do not see what it will hurt.

The first type of algae sure to show up is brown diatoms.

My question to you is will they eat the brown algae? because alot of fry will not.

The best thing i can think of to do is add a peice of decor that has some algae on it from another tank. And then use the light to make that grow and spread faster.
 
Hmm. I'm not exactly algae-rich these days, but I like the idea. I'll find a rock in my 55g with green potential. Thanks.
 
So the little guys are free-swimming now. I've been trying to keep the water as living as possible, with squirts from snail tanks and soon, pond water. I dispersed a little chunk of boiled egg yolk and it went further than I'd anticipated. Are dwarf corydoras really to be trusted with wigglers? I've heard they are commonly used to keep fry tanks a bit cleaner. I use a turkey baster already, but could use a little help at this point. What about ottos? Will they eat fry?
 
I also have little white freshwater fairy shrimp in my snail/tubifex culture. Would a little shrimp eat fry? I read somewhere they are filter feeders, but are they safe?

EDIT: I went ahead and did it. The shrimp seems uninterested in the fry so far...
 
Nobody has tried this? Really? I'm thinking of moving the breeding adults into my fry tank for instant food.
 
Since feeding the shrimp is no problem, I'm catching all of the adults and sub-adults I can, as well as the occasional cloud of babies and moving them in. They are all foraging on the debris! So far, so good!
 
Can we see some pictures? Congrats on the angel fish spawn. What do the parents look like? I would think that you should be careful with how many Shrimp you put in. you don't want so many shrimp that they starve from lack of food.
 
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