Hello I am looking into breeding angel fish. I have 14 tanks to work with, 9 10 gallons,2 15 gallons, 1 25 flat back hex,20 gallon high and a 20 gallon long. Can anybody reccommend any angel fish breeding tips? Or recommend a different fish/s to breed? Thanks
Breeding angel fish or other fish
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I used to breed angelfish, had a 55G setup with 3 pairs divided into sections using plexiglass for the diffrent pairs. Adult pairs require atleast 15-20G each, and they also prefer taller tanks so your 25G flatback hex or 20G high would be prefect to house the adults. 20G longs are great fry grow out tanks as well. Angelfish are IME a profitable fish to breed, they are very popular and if you get some of the rarer more desirable strains LFS will be willing to pay a good bit per fry expecially having them locally bred.
I spawned DD blacks, a mixed pair of a Gold Pearlscale and a DD marble, and a Pair of Zebra Laces. The best thing to do is if you want to achieve a pair is to buy 5-6 sub adult fish(about half dollar sized) and let them pair themselves off. Once they do move your pair out to a tank to themselves and keep a piece of smooth slate with them, you can purchase a piece of it online. They also like the intakes to powerfilters so I always kept one of those on hand. Once they have spawned on something remove it to a separate tank(i used 2.5G tanks) and keep it dosed with Meth. Blue to keep fungus down and I ran an airpump near the eggs to keep water circulation over them If any of my eggs turned white(dead/unfertilized) i would pick them off with a sewing needle. In about 2days or so depending on temperature the eggs would hatch and the fry would fall to the bottom where it would then take them another day or two to free swim. At this stage I would feed newly hatched brine shrimp for the first 3-5 days and then introduce some commercial fry food to the menu along with the brine shrimp. After about 2-3 weeks the angelfish fry should have grown their fins and start to resemble the adults. Also at about 10-14 days I would move them into a 5.5-10G tank depending on brood size with a small sponge filter to make my life easier as you will have to do waterchanges daily on the fry tanks. I used a turkey baster on the tiny fry to remove uneaten food particles on the bottom and siphoned off water with an airline tubing and as the fry grow I upgraded my primitive cleaning methods to a bit larger piece of tubing. A few things I highly recommend, daily waterchanges up until your fish are about m&m body size...feed every 4-6 hours...barebottom tanks only, and keep temp at a minimum of 80*F. When my angles were reaching about dime body size I would move them into their final tanks with me(usually 75G) where I would keep a fine layer of play sand a few corydoras cats and some live plants. This is usually where I would wean them off their brine shrimp and frozen mysis(introduced at around m&m body size) and onto a good quality flake. Id usually sell them to LFS and individuals when they had reached penny body size and were eating flakes and stuff better, Id usually get about 2-3bucks each for them depending on size and type. Not bad considering the average spawning I had atleast 50-75 fry make it to that point per spawning. And after you have your equipment and stuff you will make a fair amount of profit which pretty much means your hobby will pay for itself and youll have a little cash for your efforts.
I spawned DD blacks, a mixed pair of a Gold Pearlscale and a DD marble, and a Pair of Zebra Laces. The best thing to do is if you want to achieve a pair is to buy 5-6 sub adult fish(about half dollar sized) and let them pair themselves off. Once they do move your pair out to a tank to themselves and keep a piece of smooth slate with them, you can purchase a piece of it online. They also like the intakes to powerfilters so I always kept one of those on hand. Once they have spawned on something remove it to a separate tank(i used 2.5G tanks) and keep it dosed with Meth. Blue to keep fungus down and I ran an airpump near the eggs to keep water circulation over them If any of my eggs turned white(dead/unfertilized) i would pick them off with a sewing needle. In about 2days or so depending on temperature the eggs would hatch and the fry would fall to the bottom where it would then take them another day or two to free swim. At this stage I would feed newly hatched brine shrimp for the first 3-5 days and then introduce some commercial fry food to the menu along with the brine shrimp. After about 2-3 weeks the angelfish fry should have grown their fins and start to resemble the adults. Also at about 10-14 days I would move them into a 5.5-10G tank depending on brood size with a small sponge filter to make my life easier as you will have to do waterchanges daily on the fry tanks. I used a turkey baster on the tiny fry to remove uneaten food particles on the bottom and siphoned off water with an airline tubing and as the fry grow I upgraded my primitive cleaning methods to a bit larger piece of tubing. A few things I highly recommend, daily waterchanges up until your fish are about m&m body size...feed every 4-6 hours...barebottom tanks only, and keep temp at a minimum of 80*F. When my angles were reaching about dime body size I would move them into their final tanks with me(usually 75G) where I would keep a fine layer of play sand a few corydoras cats and some live plants. This is usually where I would wean them off their brine shrimp and frozen mysis(introduced at around m&m body size) and onto a good quality flake. Id usually sell them to LFS and individuals when they had reached penny body size and were eating flakes and stuff better, Id usually get about 2-3bucks each for them depending on size and type. Not bad considering the average spawning I had atleast 50-75 fry make it to that point per spawning. And after you have your equipment and stuff you will make a fair amount of profit which pretty much means your hobby will pay for itself and youll have a little cash for your efforts.
One of the members in my fish club breeds koi angels.
From what ive come to understand, he makes quite a good bit of money from them.
From what ive come to understand, he makes quite a good bit of money from them.