Angel fish

[Dave S]

Anyone know the cycle for Angel fish to lay eggs, i.e. if they laid eggs
today, when would the next batch be laid?

Thanks - Dave

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[Dinky]

"Dave S" > wrote in message
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| Anyone know the cycle for Angel fish to lay eggs, i.e. if they laid
eggs
| today, when would the next batch be laid?
|
| Thanks - Dave
|
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| cadasco at hotmail dot com
| Hampshire - UK
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|

Dave, looks like 4 days to hatch. Google is your friend.

http://www.elmersaquarium.com/10angels_breeding.htm



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[NetMax]

"Dave S" > wrote in message
...
> Anyone know the cycle for Angel fish to lay eggs, i.e. if they laid
eggs
> today, when would the next batch be laid?
>
> Thanks - Dave
>
> --
> cadasco at hotmail dot com
> Hampshire - UK

Depends on the success of the current batch, and how long they are left
tending to the free-swimming fry. The current batch will hatch 3-4 days
(depending on the water temperature) and be free swimming in another 3-4
days. If the parents are left to tend the flock, then you probably would
not get another spawn for months (I'm guessing, so anyone with current
experience should please correct me). If the parents were removed from
the fry or ate them, then you could have another spawn started in a
couple of weeks. I think breeders limit their Angels to monthly spawns,
and then introduce break periods for conditioning, so they are not
over-worked. hth

NetMax

[Dave S]

"NetMax" > wrote in message
.. .
>
> "Dave S" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Anyone know the cycle for Angel fish to lay eggs, i.e. if they laid
> eggs
> > today, when would the next batch be laid?
> >
> > Thanks - Dave
> >
> > --
> > cadasco at hotmail dot com
> > Hampshire - UK
>
> Depends on the success of the current batch, and how long they are left
> tending to the free-swimming fry. The current batch will hatch 3-4 days
> (depending on the water temperature) and be free swimming in another 3-4
> days. If the parents are left to tend the flock, then you probably would
> not get another spawn for months (I'm guessing, so anyone with current
> experience should please correct me). If the parents were removed from
> the fry or ate them, then you could have another spawn started in a
> couple of weeks. I think breeders limit their Angels to monthly spawns,
> and then introduce break periods for conditioning, so they are not
> over-worked. hth
>
> NetMax
>
Thanks NetMax - Yes that helps enormously. My thinking has been: possibly
five or six spawns per year under normal circumstances and maybe 10-15
otherwise.

Again, thanks for your help!

Dave

[Chris_S]

I've raised and sold about 300 angel fish in the past. You will need to
take the eggs out of the main tank and put them in a smaller tank. Start
your brine shrimp hatchery now. You will be very busy. If you are serious
about raising the babies you cannot have them in the large tank. The fry
will require very special conditions, and doing everything you must to for
them is nearly impossible in the main tank.

It's a lot of work for little money. I probably sold $500 worth of fish,
but that does not even begin to pay for the headaches involved. Constantly
raising brine shrimp is no fun. And you've got to do it for a long time.
You can't really sell them until after 3 months.

I did it for my 3 year old twins for them to get a kick out of. But I'll
never do it again.

Regards, Chris.

[Rick]

"Chris_S" > wrote in message
...
> I've raised and sold about 300 angel fish in the past. You will need to
> take the eggs out of the main tank and put them in a smaller tank. Start
> your brine shrimp hatchery now. You will be very busy. If you are
serious
> about raising the babies you cannot have them in the large tank. The fry
> will require very special conditions, and doing everything you must to for
> them is nearly impossible in the main tank.
>
> It's a lot of work for little money. I probably sold $500 worth of fish,
> but that does not even begin to pay for the headaches involved.
Constantly
> raising brine shrimp is no fun. And you've got to do it for a long time.
> You can't really sell them until after 3 months.
>
> I did it for my 3 year old twins for them to get a kick out of. But I'll
> never do it again.
>
> Regards, Chris.
>
>

I think the majority do it as part of the hobby and not as a commercial
venture. As you point out successfully breeding Angels can result in
hundreds of fry and then the problem of trying to get rid of them. Also
depends of the area where you are and the number of LFS that would be
willing to take them. In my case I would have no problem disposing of
quarter size Angels. Now obviously you have done it however don't you think
that starting the BBS now prior to the eggs hatching will result in large
napuli. The Angels, depending on temp. will likely not become free swimming
until around day 5 and likely will not use up the yolk sac until day 7. BBS
should hatch out in 36-48 hrs depending on temp so I would start BBS on day
4 or 5 or order some Golden Pearls Artemia (decapsulated brine shrimp) from
www.brineshrimpdirect.com and forget about hatching your own.

Rick

[Velvet]

Chris_S wrote:

> I've raised and sold about 300 angel fish in the past. You will need to
> take the eggs out of the main tank and put them in a smaller tank. Start
> your brine shrimp hatchery now. You will be very busy. If you are serious
> about raising the babies you cannot have them in the large tank. The fry
> will require very special conditions, and doing everything you must to for
> them is nearly impossible in the main tank.
>
> It's a lot of work for little money. I probably sold $500 worth of fish,
> but that does not even begin to pay for the headaches involved. Constantly
> raising brine shrimp is no fun. And you've got to do it for a long time.
> You can't really sell them until after 3 months.
>
> I did it for my 3 year old twins for them to get a kick out of. But I'll
> never do it again.
>
> Regards, Chris.
>
>

I've not done anything with my community tank (it's planted, well
filtered, water changes are irregular and probably bi-monthly on
average) yet I have a huge cloud of free-swimming angels in there that
the parents are tending to. It's taken them quite a few attempts to get
this far - they're learning as they go, it seems. I'm raising brine
shrimp but suspect there might well be other minute particles of food
floating around in the tank since they look healthy and I've not been
around all weekend to put brine shrimp in for them.

Since mine will be staying under the care of the parents in the main
tank (along with the other fish) I'm interested to know what other care
has to be given - I read a lot about how water params have to be spot on
(these aren't pure wild angels) - but in practice mine seem happy as
larry in what's in the tank, and I'm blowed if I'm going to fret about
PH etc given they've been randy buggers for months on end and now have
babies swimming around :-)

Velvet