Angelfish have been bred in captivity for decades. As a consequence most angelfish are well adapted to aquarium life and getting them to successfully spawn is not too complicated. But keeping the fry living, however, is not always easy.
It does no good to have successfully gotten your angelfish to reproduce if you can’t successfully raise the fry. You set up the right conditions as far as water, filtering, lighting and food so that as soon as your fry emerge they have the greatest opportunity for survival.
Your mother angelfish ought to deal with most of the initial rearing of the fry. After your eggs hatch it will take roughly three days for your angelfish fry to fully absorb their yolk sacs. Yolk sacs on angelfish tend to be rather big and will inhibit their ability to swim for the first few days of their life. The mother angelfish habitually works hard during this time to keep the wriggling mass of fry all together into a condensed mass of wriggling fry.
If you have kept your angelfish eggs in a methyl blue bath initially you ought to be changing the water around 50% every day. By the time the fry are free swimming the water ought to be fairly clear. Any white eggs should be siphoned out of the fish tank at this point as they are unfertilized and will not hatch. If left in the tank they can cause unwanted bacterial growth. Carry on the 50% daily water changes to keep the water uncontaminated and curtail bacterial growth.
The general agreement amongst nearly all experts is that live baby brine shrimp is the best food source for your angelfish fry for the fist couple of weeks. Feeding times should be between 4 and 12 times a day. It’s important when feeding your fry to feed moderate amounts. Angelfish generally have insatiable appetites and can easily overeat during feedings. Your fry ought to be full but not overfed in appearance.
Into the eighth day of life the fry are most likely ready to be moved from the grow fish tank into a permanent fish tank. Water changes ought to still be performed and baby brine shrimp ought to still be the foremost food source..
After several weeks of growth, if all has gone well, you may have too many baby angelfish for your fish tank. Also some have grown-up more rapidly than others and may possibly need to be divided based on size. At this point, it may possibly be time to search for an active buyer for a number of of your angelfish family.
Great video showing angelfish fry development
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