Getting angelfish to breed is not all that challenging. Today’s farm raised angelfish are well adapted to deal with a variety of environmental conditions.
It does no good to have successfully gotten your angelfish to reproduce if you can't successfully raise the fry. You set up the precise environment as far as water, filtering, lighting and food so that when your fry hatch they have the best chance for survival.
After your fry hatch it will take them a few days to soak up their yolk sack. All through this time your mom angelfish will take care of the wrigglers. The yolk sacs on angelfish are fairly large and will prevent them from freely swimming around the aquarium. Mom will try her best to keep the wiggling group of fry condensed into one compact crowd of squirming, wiggling of angelfish fry.
If you have kept your angelfish eggs in a methyl blue bath originally you should be changing the water around 50% each day. By the time the fry are free swimming the water ought to be fairly clear. It is vital to keep bacterial growth to a minimum so continue your 50% daily water changes. Eggs that are white are unfertilized and need to be removed to prevent fungal growth. A dropper can be used to vacuum up those eggs.
The common agreement among most 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. The important point is that they are fed moderate amounts at every feeding. Angelfish will consume all that is given them and thus can effortlessly overindulge. This will cause increased mortality in immature fish. Your fish ought to be full at each feeding but not overstuffed.
By the 8th day you should still be carrying out 50% water changes, and feeding free swimmers more of the brine shrimp nauplii. It will be time to relocate them to a grow out aquarium. They have no resemblance to Angel fish at this phase.
After a few weeks, the numbers may possibly be too many for your grow out tank. You also can have different sizes in your tank that needs to be separated. Therefore, it can be time to see who would be interested in receiving or buying angelfish from you.
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