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