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With breeding angelfish, you have to be very patient with them. Sometime they eat the eggs, other times they eat
the wigglers or free swimmers, if the eggs/fish are kept in the same tank as them. Below is a article I have written on breeding angel fish. It's not completely done, but I'm working on it. As you can see, it is very
long, as the breeding process is a long project. If you have any questions, would like tips on how to breed angels, or just want to share your experience with me, email me or go to my message board. |
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After the angels breed, you can
either:
1) Leave them in with the parents and let them raise them. The only bad thing about that is sometimes the parents aren't good parents. They will eat the eggs, or let them die. Others (like the pair in the picture above)
will raise them, and take good care of them. Or you can 2) Pull
the eggs out of the tank and hatch them yourself. It's simple to do, just be ready to do a lot of water changes, and have a tank already set up and
waiting.
To hatch the eggs yourself, you will need a fish tank, or a 1-gallon jar. We've done both before, and have found that the 1-gallon jar works the
best.
Take a bucket or something big enough for the piece of slate with the eggs on it (or whatever they spawned on), and put water in it. Take the slate (or what they spawned on) out of the tank and put it straight into the
water. Make sure to keep it in water as much as possible! Put the eggs in the tank or jar, and put an air stone right under it. This way the air will flow over
the eggs and aerate them. You won't have to do this if you leave them in with the parents, the parents should "fan" them, or aerate them with their fins. Being aerated is a very importune thing; if you don't
do this then the eggs will die. Make sure the water temperature
in the tank/jar is the same as the tank you're taking the eggs from. It should be about 80 - 85°F. After putting them in the tank/jar and putting air on them, you'll need to add something to the
tank/jar so bacteria won't grow. If you don't have a cycled filter in the tank, then use methane blue. You can find it at your local pet store. Add 3 drops for every 1-gallon. DON'T add it if you have a filter in the
tank, it will kill all the bacteria in the filter and you'll have to re-cycle the filter. Or you can add nothing, but do a 75% water change everyday
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In the picture below, the water is a green color because I added AcuFlav to the water. It doesn't kill the bacteria in the filter, but it won't let the eggs fungus. |
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