Angelfish Spawn!

[bmxer4ever]

BBS fed within 24 hrs of them free swimming. I try and have a batch ready for when they are. I've found the first 24 hrs to be vitally important as far as feeding goes - once they're free swimming they've virtually used up their yolk sac, so they need fed!
There's so many ways of hatching BBS - I use a little tank as a water bath and hang an upturned half milk carton in there with an airline through the lid. After 18 - 24hrs pour the lot into a glass jug, position next to a light and siphon the BBS out when they swim towards the light! I've got a thread on here somewhere I put up about this - I'll try and find it. My method may have changed a bit since posting, but I'm sure the basics are the same... I've been using an eggs and salt premix for convenience - not the cheapest way, but gets great harvests.

 

[bmxer4ever]

Found the thread and bumped it - it was from 2006 I think! I sound like a school teacher! LoL!
Somethin to bear in mind is the quantities to use. I used to pour whole packets of mix in to my hatcher, but I've learned that a third to half a teaspoon of mix is plenty each hatching - most angels don't produce enough fry to eat any more than that. And it's not a bad idea to feed them a few times a day - keep the shrimp in the glass jug and run an air bubbler in it to keep them moving while you restart your hatchery for the next days feed. Does that all make sense?

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[Tropicalfishking]

Yes!
Start the hatchery on the 6th day so it is ready for the free swimmers on the 7th/8th day? Start new hatcheries everday?

Do I have to keep the hatchery heated?

 

[bmxer4ever]

Yeah - you want your first harvest to be the day the fry free swim. Fresh batch of BBS every day - enough to feed the fry you've got - that's what I was talking about when I mentioned quantities. Experiment until you get it right.
Start hatchery 24hrs before you need it - next day, harvest and feed, start new batch in the hatchery for the next day.....and so on for weeks on end! LoL! You'll soon get in a routine. I used to start a new batch in the morning and harvest the next morning before I went to work (as well as start the next batch, feed the fry and stick a bubbler in the glass jar so there was some BBS to feed when I got home!).
You can try an eggs and salt premix, or just buy the eggs and make up your own brine. Eggs hatch at a similar temperature to your tank - if you keep FW tropicals - so how much you heat the hatchery depends on how warm your house is! As you can see from the BBS thread and this one, I've tried a couple of different ways of doing it. DIY and experiment.

 

[Tropicalfishking]

Ok so this is kinda weird!!!! one of the quarter size babys that I have has paired up and they just layed eggs... and they are only a quarter big! Do you think that I should keep these and grow them out??!!

 

[Xmonster0fishX]

ive always wanted to breed my angels but i dont think i could care for them :/

 

[Tropicalfishking]

ive always wanted to breed my angels but i dont think i could care for them :/

If they want breed they will! I just had two of my grow outs to sell breed in a tank with 40 other angelfish, and they are just bigger than quater size!

 

[Tropicalfishking]

Angelfish Sawned again, 2 days ago! Yeah! Only this time 75% of the eggs turned white.... I think I need to start feeding the parents better foods... I will look into that.
bmxer4ever, What do you feed your adults?

 

[bmxer4ever]

Ok so this is kinda weird!!!! one of the quarter size babys that I have has paired up and they just layed eggs... and they are only a quarter big! Do you think that I should keep these and grow them out??!!

WHAT? EH? Really?
WoW! Never seen that before!
Grow out everything! LoL!

 

[bmxer4ever]

Angelfish Sawned again, 2 days ago! Yeah! Only this time 75% of the eggs turned white.... I think I need to start feeding the parents better foods... I will look into that.
bmxer4ever, What do you feed your adults?

I tend to feed them up on lots of frozen bloodworm to get them in the mood. My pair have been a bit awkward lately. Laying eggs, eating eggs, unfertilised eggs, eating fry. Wish they'd calm down and get back to producing fry!