angel fish parents

[supaflyz]

I saw a thread a person did with their angelfish having eggs.  Today I turn the light on my aquarium notice my koi angels also had eggs.  I wish the babies would come out.  I doubt that they will hatch since this angel fish havent reach mature size yet. I had some altum angels that laid egg twice but never succesfully hatch.  I gave them away when I sold the tank.  Here is a video of my koi angels with her eggs.  Do you guys think I should put a powerhead next to it to increase the water flow.  I read somewhere that that helps, but the flow might be to strong and just blow the eggs into the substrate.  

Heres a link to the eggs http://s54.photobucket.com/albums/g9...rrent=eggs.flv

[Obed]

Re: angel fish parents

in the community tanks situation that you have the chances of the eggs reaching the point of free swimming is slim and if they do they will just be lunch for someone....
moving water flow accross them will not really help, the parents if they are doing thier job will keep enough water movement over the eggs... if you want to be able to have fry from this pair you will need to move them into a tank of their own, a 20 tall or 25 will do nicely,,,, if they parent raise it is fun to watch, but domestics like Koi sometimes take several spawns to get the parent raising thing down and some never get it,,,
pulling the eggs and hatching them yourself is not difficult, you just have to decide if you want to devote the necessary grow out space (more tanks) and time to it...

[Hanson77]

Re: angel fish parents

That is a hard one to decide as well.  I have 3 Peacocks that breed monthly like clockwork and it's a hard decision as to whether you pull them or not.  My problem is they are all hybrids since there are multiple types in the same tank....somewhat of a Peacock Community.  Right now I have a 10 gallon nursery with around 40 hybrids that I really don't know what to do with now.  At first I was just so excited that they bred, not knowing how easy of an occurence it was with the right environment.  Now it's more of a chore but an experiment all the same to see what they come out looking like.  But I agree with Obed, you have a decision to make as to whether you want to take on the responsibility of these little ones or just let nature take it's course.