Tropicalfishking;3597626; said:
I fed live bbs all the time for about 5-6 weeks, tried to wean them onto crushed flake early on- Tetramin baby - more of a powder really - but they weren't that interested. Still popped a little in the tank now and again though! Tried a few other things, but it wasn't 'til they got a bit bigger and I moved them into my tetra tank that they started copying the other fish and had a go at eating everything!
I do small waterchanges, maybe a bucketful, every week to two weeks. We have nice soft water here, so I think that helps too.
Most of the time, more then half my eggs turn white. See the pics below with the white unhatched eggs above the wrigglers on the slate. I think Red Devil is probably right, the male didn't manage to fertilise them all. Typical man! LoL!
Getting hold of a slate is a good idea - then you can just move the eggs to their own tank straight away. I usually do it after lights out on the day of spawning. Less stress on mum and dad. In fact, if you get two slates, there's always one in the tank for them to spawn on, as they will probably spawn again within a week to ten days of you removing the eggs...
If you are going to move the fry to their own tank, it's a good idea to exchange water between the two tanks so the new tank will have similar chemistry to the one they hatched in.
Wrigglers generally stick to whatever the parents have spat them onto. They seem to attach via some sticky substance on their heads...maybe someone here can confirm this - but, as you've seen, some inevitably fall off! Be prepared to lose this spawn as the fry may well get eaten by your other fish, but now your angels have spawned once, it's likely they'll do it again and you can prepare for it. And leave them in the tank they are in, often moving fish will stop them breeding... Just move the eggs.
Hope that all helps - just my experience from the past few months, I'm sure others here will have some good advice too.
G
