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SpiceySpice - 25 Feb 2006 10:35 GMT

Ive a pair of angels, wasnt sure their were a breeding pair untill about two
week ago i caught them eating eggs laid on a plant, i removed the eggs to
tub with some meth blue and an airstone and they all turned white after
about 4 days i discarded them.

About two days ago, more eggs on another leaf this time the angels werent
eating them but i removed the leaf just in case, again put in a tub, drop of
meth blue, airstone, and replaced 50% of the water daily with tank water,
still nothing, am i doing something wrong, maybe i will leave the eggs in
situe next time and see if they hatch, being in a hardwater area though they
usually get fungus.

Plus the angels are with other dwarf chiclids which may eat the young in any
case. Not feasable to remove adult to another tank, they are quite big. Its
either leave the eggs and hope, or keep doing what im doing and hope its
just that they are not fertile at the moment.

It could be that ive two females of course. di

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Edward Cowling London UK - 25 Feb 2006 17:20 GMT

>Ive a pair of angels, wasnt sure their were a breeding pair untill about two
>week ago i caught them eating eggs laid on a plant, i removed the eggs to
>tub with some meth blue and an airstone and they all turned white after
>about 4 days i discarded them.

There are numerous websites on breeding angels and how to tell their
sex. I had a breeding pair and it drove me bonkers trying to get them to
hatch. My personal view is that you need flowing clean water. So I put
them in a shallow tank with a fairly strong powerhead providing a good
current over the top of the eggs. Then I started to get knee deep in
baby angel fish :-)

It's nice to do it once or twice though, just for that "oooooo" feeling
when you first see a tank full of baby fish. Sex the fish first to see
if you have a pair, then set up a tank with running water. Not an
airstone, but a good strong current over the eggs.

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Fishman ><(((°> - 25 Feb 2006 18:44 GMT

>>Ive a pair of angels, wasnt sure their were a breeding pair untill about
>>two
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> you have a pair, then set up a tank with running water. Not an airstone,
> but a good strong current over the eggs.

Some good advice here.
PS How do you ever get a breeding pair to hatch?

Water chemistry is also important.
Soft and acid is preferable, very hard and alkaline - egg fertility drops
off.

Once the eggs do hatch and the fry need feeding I found it essential to have
a ready & ample supply of newly hatched brine shrimp.
I found that the fry would totally refuse finely ground flake and would
literally starve themselves to death unless some form of small & moving live
food was available.

Fed enough NH brine shrimp, the fry had fat orange bellies and grew very
quickly.
Once at about 4 weeks and beginning to actually look like angel fish they
eagerly took small bits of flake.

It's a great sight to see the parents with a shoal of babies.
Good luck.

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angelfish eggs