Severum and Angelfish spawning

[Sundew]

About one week ago, a pair of the normally colored Severum spawned in my community tank. The pair spawned on a small flat piece of driftwood. The eggs were left with the parents until they hatched, then the fry were siphoned out before they were free-swimming into bare bottom ten gallon tank with a sponge filter, a nice coating of algae on the sides and back and a big clump of Utricularia gibba [just as an aside, this is an aquatic carnivorous plant, but with traps too small to catch the Severum fry]. Anyway after 2-3 days the fry became free-swimming and I started feeding them newly hatched brine shrimp.

At what stage can they start taking finely ground flake food? They are really going through the brine shrimp! What foods will give the best growth rate? I want to get some size on them so they will be less delicate.

Also, I have a pair of Albino Angelfish that spawn on a regular basis. The pair always eat their eggs, but I did see one hatch once so they do produce viable spawn. Since I will have to remove the eggs if I ever hope to have young what is the best way to care for the eggs? The only time I removed them they all fungused, but I believe they got chilled. I have been using Pemafix as a fungicide in my tanks, has anyone had luck using it with eggs?

Sundew

 

[CTU2fan]

Re: the sev fry, you can always try giving them some crushed flakes, they may start taking it. The brine shrimp will put some size on them, if it's getting to be a pain you could try the frozen ones, my fry liked them fine.

Re: the angel eggs...angels are tricky. Personally I think the line-bred angels (which most are these days) have lost a lot of their parenting skills, and that's why they eat their eggs/fry so often. What you'll want to do is remove the eggs to the 10G as you did the sev fry (complete with the algea). Try putting a flat piece of slate in, at an angle, and hopefully they'll lay on that, 9 out of 10 times mine would lay right on the tank glass so no removing those. You need to aerate the eggs, if they lay on a slate piece just put that in the hatch tank with an airstone underneath so the bubbles rise up each side of the slate (don't let the bubbles touch the eggs). Once they hatch you can care for them as any other cichlid fry.

Good luck with those sev fry.