Please help I have baby angelfish in my tank!!

Redneck Woman

Redneck Woman

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:help:Hello everyone! I am new to the boards but I have an emergency. I have 7 Angelfish in my 75 gal tank and they are about a year old. I hadn't noticed any bad behavior but today I was watching and noticed all my angels except two were hiding in a corner. I got to the tank and noticed about 40 baby fish on a plastic leaf. I cut the filter off but I am not prepared to take them out. What should I do?? Will they be okay until I get another tank set up or should I just wash it up to stupidity and wait for the next batch?
My other fish in the tank are two clown loaches, two algae eaters,and a blue ram. I also have live plants and plastic plants. Nothing has been getting close to the babies!!
 
get another tank asap, it will only be a few days until they are free swimming, and if you wait you will have a load of tiny fish food for your other fish (this just happenen to me, even a few hours can mean the difference. You can get a 10g set up for about 25 bucks but will need a heater and sponge for your filter so the fry wont get sucked up in the filter. You can seed the fry tank with gravel or filter media from your main tank. Feed the free swimmers finely crushed flake food or frozen brine shrimp. While they are still wigglers (which is where you are now) they will feed on the yolk sack. Hope this helped
 
I bought a 10gal tank and used rock and water out of my old tank, should I put the parent fish in the tank with the babies?
 
Leave the parents in the main tank. If you can put some type of fish safe sponge over the filters intake tube. If you have any quilt batting wrapping that around the intake with a rubber band will work. You will probably want to take a small chunk of bio media from your main tank and put it in the filter of your fry tank which essentially makes it an instantly cycled tank. You can feed finely ground up flake food to the fry most likely. I can't remember how small angel fry are off hand.
 
angel fry are tiney. they may not eat finely ground up flake . see if you can find BBS(frozen) or hatch out your own. they will require feedings several times per day and small water changes to remove uneaten food.
 
petsmart sells frozen baby brine shrimp. they also sell the BBS eggs so you can hatch them your self as they may not eat the frozen ones angel fry are attracted to the movement of the BBS you will be hatching BBS for 4-6 weeks till they are about dime size then they will start to eat flake food.

The best way to get them out once they are free swimming is to use a wide mouth mason jar and cover them at lights out and take plant and all. The parents will round them up in their mouth and spit them back on the leaf don't panic they are not eating them. Angels are very good parents (thats why the others are in a corner).

Good luck just like having kids lots of work but well worth the effort.
 
Okay, I got all the babies out and in the tank and here it is 11:55pm and I have yet to see one swimming. I can't find any dead ones either. I hope the're okay. Well anyway I will be ready for the next batch. But I have my fingers crossed on this one. I will let ya'll know.
Thanks for all the replies.
 
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