Angelfish breeding q's
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guppy said:
I don't have that much money or a big sized tank unless I divided my mom's tank so that I could raise 6 individuals and some of my fish in there.
I would start them in my 55g community and they would start pairing off around 3"+ then I would move them to the 29gs or the 150g community, the leftovers I would trade out. I was getting them for less then $2 each and getting $38 in credit for proven pairs. One of the few fish that paid for themselves. For a while I even had a waiting list for them.
Angels will pair off at a little over quarter size. It's best to let them pick their own mates.
Angels courting can look aggressive if you've never seen it before. The fish chase each other, nip, and then lock lips in a tug of war. They are testing each other out, sort of like seeing if the other is "worthy" of spawing.
Are you 100% sure that you have a male? It's really hard to tell until the angels spawn and you see who did the egg laying. Females who are "in the mood" can be quite agressive to another female in the tank or a young male who's not ready yet.
I used a 20 gallon tall for a breeding pair. An Amazon sword potted, a piece of slate, a heater, and a sponge filter in the tank, nothing else, no gravel.
I removed the eggs, hatched them in a mason jar, then trasfered the wrigglers to a 1/2 filled 10 gallon. Large water changes done daily, raise the water in the 10 gallon as the fry grow, then put the babies in plastic storage tubs to grow them out.
It is a lot of work if you do it this way as opposed to letting the parents raise the fry, but a 20 gallon just isn't big enough for 100's of fry and two parents, plus dithers. Maybe a 40 gallon would work.
The babies eat newly hatched brine shrimp, even day old brine shrimp are too big for them to eat for awhile. One 2 liter pop bottle hatchery of shrimp is enough for one day. Start feeding baby angels when they are free swimming, not wrigglers.
Oh, that pleco of your's would make fast work of any eggs laid in your current 20 gallon set up. Once mommy and daddy are sleeping, that guy will have the eggs slurped up!
Angels courting can look aggressive if you've never seen it before. The fish chase each other, nip, and then lock lips in a tug of war. They are testing each other out, sort of like seeing if the other is "worthy" of spawing.
Are you 100% sure that you have a male? It's really hard to tell until the angels spawn and you see who did the egg laying. Females who are "in the mood" can be quite agressive to another female in the tank or a young male who's not ready yet.
I used a 20 gallon tall for a breeding pair. An Amazon sword potted, a piece of slate, a heater, and a sponge filter in the tank, nothing else, no gravel.
I removed the eggs, hatched them in a mason jar, then trasfered the wrigglers to a 1/2 filled 10 gallon. Large water changes done daily, raise the water in the 10 gallon as the fry grow, then put the babies in plastic storage tubs to grow them out.
It is a lot of work if you do it this way as opposed to letting the parents raise the fry, but a 20 gallon just isn't big enough for 100's of fry and two parents, plus dithers. Maybe a 40 gallon would work.
The babies eat newly hatched brine shrimp, even day old brine shrimp are too big for them to eat for awhile. One 2 liter pop bottle hatchery of shrimp is enough for one day. Start feeding baby angels when they are free swimming, not wrigglers.
Oh, that pleco of your's would make fast work of any eggs laid in your current 20 gallon set up. Once mommy and daddy are sleeping, that guy will have the eggs slurped up!
