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Post by DaharkazAngel on Apr 23, 2010 1:34:22 GMT -5
My Freshwater Angelfish keep laying there eggs on my internal filter, i have a vid of them with there last batch which they ate very readily, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Iu68dA_LkIve come home to find them on there second 'batch' and would like to try and hatch/save some babies. However they are laying on my filter instead of my java fern how do i go about saving them??? Tips??? Thanks guys
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Post by babygeige on Apr 23, 2010 21:39:44 GMT -5
I believe I read somewhere that you can carefully scrape them off, and move them to a different tank, but beyond that I can't remember the proper way to care for them so that they hatch. I'll try to remember where I read that...
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Post by bikeguy33 on Apr 24, 2010 20:07:39 GMT -5
hmmmmm....i would suggest leaving them where they are but take a large flat stone or a bushy plant and put it in front....even if you have to turn that filter off. i have experienced often that if the eggs are out of site they are out of mind. as well with angels being in the cichlid family...i am assuming they will help guard the eggs...altho like carl this is not my complete area of expertise....
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Post by DaharkazAngel on Apr 25, 2010 4:23:46 GMT -5
Well they ate them guys, second time now. What can i get so they wont use my filter??
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Post by Carl on Apr 25, 2010 9:55:03 GMT -5
One thought is to move what ever decoration, filter, etc that they lay eggs on to another tank.
I had one customer with a 240 gallon (900 liter) Amazon River set up with angels, discus and a whole lot more, including Rummy Nose in large schools that would eat most eggs quite quickly. Although we had slate for the angels, often they would not lay there. One time we even moved a strainer tube to the fry tank, however as Bill noted, often out of site out of mind would have some measure of success.
The most important experience I could pass is that even in large "mixed community" tanks such as this 240 gallon the success rate was not very good as moving the eggs did not always work, assuming they could be found in time in the first place. Most success is achieved in bare tanks with sponge filters set up for only the purpose of breeding one pair of angels IMHO.
Carl
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Post by ralphpolo24 on Dec 30, 2011 15:44:58 GMT -5
they say it takes a few times for them to get it
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Post by swimfin27 on May 28, 2015 8:31:40 GMT -5
My angelfish have played eggs 3 times and the third time being this morning. The first time I decided to leave them in the tank, they grew over with fungus then they ate them. The second time they laid them on one of my anubias leaves and I moved them to a gallon jar with an air stone and 4 drops of MB, I was doing two 10% WC daily per advice from my breeder friend but those later fungused over. Today I am keeping a close eye on them, I don't think my male is fertilizing them. He is passing over them with his tube. Would I see anything come out of the tube? This is only their third lay and I'm wondering if he just isn't fertilizing.
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Post by Carl on May 28, 2015 20:43:05 GMT -5
It seems that he is fertilizing, but you should be able to see a it very faintly unless the current is too strong.
Make sure there is good current near the eggs once laid
Carl
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Post by devonjohnsgard on May 29, 2015 10:55:22 GMT -5
If there's a concern about them or other fish eating the eggs, you could consider crating off that side of the tank.
Congrats on this attempts of breeding though. I haven't been able to breed angels.
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Post by swimfin27 on May 29, 2015 17:57:49 GMT -5
I haven't seen anything coming out of him even faintly. All that I have in the tank are 8 bronze cories, 1 clown pleco and 1 red marble BN pleco. The angels don't seem to mind them being around and the eggs were pretty high up on the Anubias. I moved the eggs to a gallon jar with MB and doing 2 10% WC daily. I am beginning to think my water is too hard for them too hatch. I will try a batch of soft water next go around. They are laying pretty steadily for me, each batch has been between 14-18 days apart. I can usually tell when the are getting close and I hit them with a WC and up the temp slightly. It is pretty amazing the "POP" sound they make the night before they lay.
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