i have had 5 angelfish in a community tank fot about 6 months and i just found them gaurding eggs in a filter in take tube how do i stop the eggs getting eaten i have a spare tank i can move the eggs to shall i do that or just leave them and hope for the best
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- Thread starter superluke
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You can use your spare tank. Can you remove the filter intake tube at all? If not, wait for another spawn but prepare your slates or PVC pipes this time for them to make as spawning sites. The site should be movable enough to allow you to get the eggs. Keep the spare tank barebottom and operated with sponge filter only. Dose heavily with methylene blue to avoid fungal growths killing the viable eggs.
This is what I do for angelfish eggs. I remove the slate, sword leaf, pipe, or whatever from the tank all together. I put the eggs in a bucket with half tank water and half fresh water and dose that with methylene blue. Instead of a bucket you could use the extra tank. Add a filter without carbon and a heater to the bucket/tank. Wrap some filter floss around the intake tube of the filter to slow the flow rate and make sure no eggs are sucked up.
Next, wait. Observe the eggs twice a day and remove the fungusy ones with a good pair of tweezers. In my experience they will get fungusy no matter what you put in the water. The fungus will spread do adjacent eggs if you don't remove them.
The eggs will start wrigling a few days later. You will see little tails protruding from the eggs. At this point start doing 25% water changes each day to get rid of the methylene blue and keep the water pristine. Make sure the water paramaters match.
After a few more days the fry will become free swimming. Feed them baby brine shrimp or microworms if you have them, if not, try to grind up some flake and throw it in there. Keep up with the water changes. Eventually you will have a bunch of angelfish that you have no room for and that the local fish store will not want.
Enjoy!
Next, wait. Observe the eggs twice a day and remove the fungusy ones with a good pair of tweezers. In my experience they will get fungusy no matter what you put in the water. The fungus will spread do adjacent eggs if you don't remove them.
The eggs will start wrigling a few days later. You will see little tails protruding from the eggs. At this point start doing 25% water changes each day to get rid of the methylene blue and keep the water pristine. Make sure the water paramaters match.
After a few more days the fry will become free swimming. Feed them baby brine shrimp or microworms if you have them, if not, try to grind up some flake and throw it in there. Keep up with the water changes. Eventually you will have a bunch of angelfish that you have no room for and that the local fish store will not want.
Enjoy!
Hey aglarond next time you breed angels, try this: skip the methylene blue! I was cranking out angelfish for a lot of the pet shops in my old town. I never bothered with tweezers. I didn't have to because egg fungus was almost a non-issue once I got my system down. The short version is: replace methylene blue with hydrogen peroxide.
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