Breeding Angels

[Raza]

Hello- ive got a few tanks, all setup im planning on getitng a pair of angels, but was wondering would my mollies and other angels (mid size) be able to eat the wrigglers? as im short on tank space and would not be able to keep all the angel fish fry!!!

 

[Freezekougra]

yes they will
and the best food to start angels on is live baby brine shrimp, you'll want a separate tank to prevent the fry from getting eaten and to make sure the other fish don't steal all the BBS

 

[duke33]

I see MTS in your future.

 

[Raza]

ok thanks mate, ive got a tank setup and ready for the baby fry that i would be keeping (about 40-50) in a 2ftx1ft tank. The rest il just feed to my mollies and other angels.I also have a few plasic containers that i would use to hatch my brine shrimp eggs. I was wondering when the brine shrimp hatch and i put a few hundred in to another 1ftx1ft tank would they lay eggs? Thanks

 

[tscharf]

i dontthink so, i remember in highschool my techer saying something about them only laying eggs in brackish water

 

[Raza]

Oh damn :L how do i turn my water Brackish??

 

[Raza]

I know i need some kinds of salt but im not sure of the amount or the types, have you got any recommendations?

 

[tscharf]

its been a hwile since ive set up a salt tank, actually about 10 years i think, my recommendations would be to do some research to determine the conditions in which brine shrimp breed in the wild, then get a refractometer or something along those lines to measure your salinity and add salt accordingly. just remeber when replacing water from evaporation you do not need to add salt, because the salt is still in the tank, only during waterchanges where your physically taking water out of the tank do you need to add salt.