I have babies :-)
 

An angelfish pair have been spawning frequently in my community tank but
seem to be learning as they go. I got them both as small juveniles
but had a hunch they were a male/female - I'm no expert but they just
seemed slightly different so I went with that - and I now have proof
several times over ;-)

This time around I left for the weekend away with loads of wrigglers on
the leaf. Today I got home and I have a cloud of baby angelfish
swimming around one end of the tank, protected by the parents. I now
suspect the parents are the culprits behind the plants being uprooted at
that end, to give less hiding places for the other inhabitants to sneak
up on the babies.

I've a batch of brine shrimp I've put in, but the babies show no
interest in them at all (the other fish adore them). I guess I might
have 30-40+ in there, which will present me with a problem later when it
comes to finding homes for them. The tank isn't big enough to house
more than one pair in a community set-up, nor two pairs in
dedicated-to-angels-mode. That's the reason they're still in the
community tank taking their chances, I know if I get my q-tank up and
running and put them in there, they'll a) soon outgrow it, and b) not be
subject to some vague sort of natural selection to limit the numbers.

If there's anyone in the Surrey area (UK) that might like to take them
off my hands (free) post a reply here, and I'll post once they're a bit
bigger (if they make it) with colour/patterns etc.

It's really very exciting! I can't wait to see what the offspring look
like - one parent is a silver/black marbledish sort-of-veil-tail, and
the other is a silver with deep golden tint over the top/tail, fading as
it gets lower, and light iridescent blue on his long trailing fins (I
can't remember the technical names right now, sorry).

Velvet

I have babies :-)
 

"Velvet" wrote in message
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I've a batch of brine shrimp I've put in, but the babies show no
interest in them at all (the other fish adore them). I guess I might
have 30-40+ in there, which will present me with a problem later when it
comes to finding homes for them. The tank isn't big enough to house

Brine shrimp (artemia) are likely too large for their mouths, unless of
course you've hatched them yourself and they are really tiny artemia.

About 15 years ago, when I used to raise angelfish and sell them to the lfs,
I used to hard boil an egg, then mash it up and mix it with water, then pour
some of the liquid into the tank. They thrived on that suspended egg yolk.
It messes up the tank real bad so you need to be very diligent with water
changing - around 80% a day of fresh clean water.


more than one pair in a community set-up, nor two pairs in
dedicated-to-angels-mode. That's the reason they're still in the
community tank taking their chances, I know if I get my q-tank up and
running and put them in there, they'll a) soon outgrow it, and b) not be
subject to some vague sort of natural selection to limit the numbers.

If there's anyone in the Surrey area (UK) that might like to take them
off my hands (free) post a reply here, and I'll post once they're a bit
bigger (if they make it) with colour/patterns etc.

It's really very exciting! I can't wait to see what the offspring look
like - one parent is a silver/black marbledish sort-of-veil-tail, and
the other is a silver with deep golden tint over the top/tail, fading as
it gets lower, and light iridescent blue on his long trailing fins (I
can't remember the technical names right now, sorry).

Velvet

I have babies :-)
 

Graham Broadbridge wrote:
"Velvet" wrote in message
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I've a batch of brine shrimp I've put in, but the babies show no
interest in them at all (the other fish adore them). I guess I might
have 30-40+ in there, which will present me with a problem later when it
comes to finding homes for them. The tank isn't big enough to house


Brine shrimp (artemia) are likely too large for their mouths, unless of
course you've hatched them yourself and they are really tiny artemia.

About 15 years ago, when I used to raise angelfish and sell them to the lfs,
I used to hard boil an egg, then mash it up and mix it with water, then pour
some of the liquid into the tank. They thrived on that suspended egg yolk.
It messes up the tank real bad so you need to be very diligent with water
changing - around 80% a day of fresh clean water.



more than one pair in a community set-up, nor two pairs in
dedicated-to-angels-mode. That's the reason they're still in the
community tank taking their chances, I know if I get my q-tank up and
running and put them in there, they'll a) soon outgrow it, and b) not be
subject to some vague sort of natural selection to limit the numbers.

If there's anyone in the Surrey area (UK) that might like to take them
off my hands (free) post a reply here, and I'll post once they're a bit
bigger (if they make it) with colour/patterns etc.

It's really very exciting! I can't wait to see what the offspring look
like - one parent is a silver/black marbledish sort-of-veil-tail, and
the other is a silver with deep golden tint over the top/tail, fading as
it gets lower, and light iridescent blue on his long trailing fins (I
can't remember the technical names right now, sorry).

Velvet




I'm hatching brine shrimp for them :-) They're wolfing them down,
though it's tedious to transfer brine shrimp from hatching pot to tank -
not yet worked out a better method than pipetting them out to avoid the
cyst cases being moved too.

There's fewer babies as of today, I'm guessing the parents can't chase
all the other fish away all the time, but since this will help my
problem of how to offload them, I'm not *too* fussed.

Still all exciting stuff. The babies are great to watch hunting down
the brine shrimp!

Velvet

I have babies :-)
 

"Velvet" wrote in message
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I'm hatching brine shrimp for them :-) They're wolfing them down,
though it's tedious to transfer brine shrimp from hatching pot to tank -
not yet worked out a better method than pipetting them out to avoid the
cyst cases being moved too.

Yeah, that's one of the reasons I used egg yolk :-)

There's fewer babies as of today, I'm guessing the parents can't chase
all the other fish away all the time, but since this will help my
problem of how to offload them, I'm not *too* fussed.

If you get 20% survival you're doing real good. Commercial breeders get
around 50%.
I never did better than about 20% after literally hundreds of clutches.


Graham.