Help Please!

[Dreaco]

ok here is the problem: I have a breeding pair of angels, they laid eggs last week and I now have about 100+ free swimming fry in a seperate tank from the parents, now they laid eggs again only a week later. I dont have another tank to put the new eggs in. Would it be ok to put the new eggs in the tank with the week old fry or should I just let the parents do their thing and risk them being sucked up in the filter or eaten by my other two angels that are with the parents? Personally I would like to raise them but if the week old fry will just kill them I dont see the point in moving them.

Thanks for any help you could give.

 

[SnookTown]

Congrats first of all.
If you have enough grow out tanks to raise the fry then by all means try and save as many as possible. If not then I would leave the new batch in with the parents and let them do what comes naturally. If you try and save them all you will be over run with tiny little mouths to feed

 

[Mystix212]

100+ isnt very many at all. A usual angel spawn consists of 500+ fry.
Leave the fry with the parents are you'll enjoy the parental activity. You can just cull the ones you dont want. EG, feeders.

 

[Kiana]

I have a pair of breeding Blue Longfin Danios who are producing eggs like crazy. And even though I have hundreds of them, I try to save as many as I can. I always separate the eggs from the parents in fear that they will devour every one of them due to hunger in energy lost during mating. Try using breeding nets if you don't have other tanks to put the eggs in. Do not use the plastic breeder tanks because the eggs/hatched frys are small enough to slip through the slits back into your aquarium. In every stage of the egg development and hatching, some will not make it due to incomplete fertilization and/or development, therefore, I think that you should save as many as you can. If you do decide to do so, you should check carefully for unfertilized or bad eggs and throw them out asap. Bad eggs can harm good eggs. You can always sell them to stores. Some will take them for cash, others will do it for store credit. If not, you can donate them or give them to friends and family. Also makes great gifts for kids.

 

[Kiana]

I meant that you can sell your healthy frys to stores....NOT the bad eggs. Ooops!! Ha ha! No one wants bad eggs for gifts either. Sorry for any confusion!

 

[Dreaco]

I meant that you can sell your healthy frys to stores....NOT the bad eggs. Ooops!! Ha ha! No one wants bad eggs for gifts either. Sorry for any confusion!

lol, I know what you meant. My concern now is not for the fry, but for the parents, I don't want them to keep breeding every week if it will harm them. I also would like to know if it would be ok to put the new eggs in with the 1 week old hatched fry? I definately want to sell them to recoup some of the money I have spent on fish. Hell if I didn't have my 12+ id shark, I would use my 210 for a shoal of the angels, but I like the shark too much to get rid of him...lol

 

[Kiana]

Hello again,

Your angels should not breed more than once a week. This would ensure their safety. Use a tank divider to separate the two, or put one of them in a breeder net/tank until you're ready to have them breed again. I usually prefer the breeder net because it's so much easier to maintain and hooks right on to your aquarium. And yes, it's alright to put in the eggs with the hatched fry so long as you make sure that you discard any bad eggs. They are harmful to both hatched frys and good eggs.

With all your babies, I highly recommend you get another tank (small) to put the eggs in. It'll make it much easier to pick out the bad eggs. Use another tank (10 gal) with gentle filteration and some decors if you wish, to raise the hatched frys in until they are big enough to join other fish in your main tank without getting eaten. You can separate hatched frys from the egg tank with a medicine dropper or a small tube. Actually, your most valuable tools to manage this task will be these. I know this sounds like alot of work, but it seems to be working very well for me. I found that this method ensures more healthy babies and survival rate.