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YES, AND it's
fun to watch. Angels that are tending fry are at their most colorful, and so very
solicitous! They'll try to bite you when you do the cleaning chores, fortunately they
have no teeth to speak of. I had a black male that would jump out of the tank to bite any
passerby. When I was doing cleaning, I spread a large terry-cloth towel on the floor so I
could put him back in the tank easily! See the movie at the right. It shows my proud
poppa German Blue Blusher fanning his fry on the breeding slate. Do NOT be alarmed when
the parents use their mouths to pick up the fry and move them about, they don't have
hands. Sometimes they are OVER solicitous, and continue pasting swimmers back on the
slate after 8 days. This may keep them from getting enough baby brine shrimp to survive.
But you may still want to raise some fry in a small tank.Young parents often eat their
first few spawns. You might want to try pulling the slate out and raising a batch
yourself. Some of the fancier varieties may have lost the ability... and many breeders
would prefer not to perpetuate strains that can't do it naturally.
Even if you have parents that are successfully raising a batch, they will spawn again
in two or three weeks, and the previous generation will eat their siblings off the slate.
Yuck! And at 5-6 weeks, fry will start munching on the parent's fins and skin, which will
eventually weaken and kill them.
Try raising some fry separately. It's no more trouble than raising them in the
parents' tank, perhaps less. You'll get better yields, much better than in a
community tank.
Topic: It's YOUR turn to contribute here!
Author: Bill Dawes
Email: wmdawes@email.com
Date: 6/11/99
Time: 6:35:18 PM
Comments
I've added this 'guest book' feature to allow YOU to improve on the FAQ immediately!
Please share your experiences with our other guests.
Thanks!
Topic: Parents
Author: Raynard
Email: spilopterus@pacific.net.sg
Remote User:
Date: 19 Jan 2000
Time: 10:05:26
Comments
For all those hobbyist out there. I would strongly encourage you to let the parents have a go with the fry. It saves alot of trouble as they do all the work and then sight is magnificent. I started out in june for my school, that pair took care of the fry without eating them. Then recently I got two pairs, they also did not eat them but were very good parents. Sadly all my fry died cause i am still learning how to raise the fry properly. But I think there has been too much hullabaloo over parents eating fry, or its that I'm one extremely lucky chap.
Topic: Can my specific pair raise the fry
Author: Russ
Email: shmeeee1@aol.com
Remote User:
Date: 29 Feb 2000
Time: 17:55:46
Comments
Hi, I was wondering if my specific breed is a "fancy" angel. And if it is too "fancy" to raise its own young. The male is a balck marble and the female is a gold slightly koi veil. Thanks
Topic: Marital Disputes
Author: Flash
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Date: 02 Mar 2000
Time: 23:37:05
Comments
I have a pair of golden angels and they have developed a real taste for their eggs. The eggs seem to be dying anyway, almost like they aren't being fertilized. Could this be my male? Once the eggs are gone they fight terribly, to the point that I put a tank divider in to separate them. When I first got the fish, they would take care of the eggs until they hatched, when they started to eat them I would separate the parents from the fry with divider, but have never got them to free swiming. I have worse luck every week when they lay eggs. Getting discouraged quick, any suggestions??
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Author: Steve
Email: jenath@atu.com.au
Remote User:
Date: 17 Apr 2000
Time: 06:25:35
Comments
Can you tell me what the ill effects of adding Methylene blue to a tank whilst the parents are tending the eggs?
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Date: 09 May 2000
Time: 18:13:19
Comments
what is Methylene blue im quite a beginner
Topic: trouble with my angels
Author: Brenda Wydeven
Email: jake10r@netscape.net
Remote User:
Date: 17 May 2000
Time: 13:44:17
Comments
I have successfuly breed angels before; But I seem to be having trouble with a new pair of angels. No matter what I put in the tank my female keeps spawning on the intake pipe of my outside filter. I've tried putting many pieces of slate, wide leafed plants and evel a plate with no luck. I also have a sponge filter in my tank, so the first time I turned off my outside filter and all the eggs turned white. This time I left my filter on and the eggs are still turning white. The female dosen't seem to be picking off the white eggs, she only does occasinal fanning. I trid to take the tube off, but she just has them on the glass. I usually hatch the eggs myself and put methalane blue in when I hatch them, but I cant get ahold of these eggs. Should I take filter and all out of the tank and let the normal currant hatch the eggs and than turn it off. She has had 6 batches of eggs with no success. I switched males because I thought the male I bought her with was infertal. What do I do, I never had problems like this.
Topic: angelfish hatched
Author: Brenda Wydeven
Email: jake10r@netscape.net
Remote User:
Date: 18 May 2000
Time: 23:51:39
Comments
I wrote to you yesterday about my female having her eggs on the intake tube to my outside filter and she wasn't removing the white eggs. Well I used a baby syringe and removed the white eggs myself. When I removed the partition she picked off the rest of the white eggs that were to close to the clear ones that I missed. About 6 hours later she moved all the eggs to a potted plant leaf AND THEIR WIGGLERS!! It's not a big yield because this is only the second time I used this particular male,But he'll get better. Next time I'll shorten the pipe to the intake tube and yes my outside filter is off so babies don't get stuck. Nit out off the woods yet, but each batch is different. THANK YOU FOR REPLYING SO QUICKLY!
