Angels Eggs Hatched!!!

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Candycat21

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Okay guys, I need some suggestions here. My angel pair laid eggs a few days ago and they finally hatched today!! :) The fry are still attached to the leaves, but you can see their tails moving around frantically LoL There's a good number of fry, at least 60. I would really like to try and save these guys, but I really dont want to seperate my fish and stress them out. Once the babies are able to be kept by themselves, I will set up another smaller tank. I have 1 more angel in that same tank with my clown loaches, neons, rummy-noses, harlequins, gourami, killifish and pleco.
I'm at a loss at what to do! HELP PLEASE! Anyone raised angel babies to maturity?
 
remove them, asap. Drain 10 gallons of their tank water into a 10 gallon raise them from there. Once they're free swimming use a syphon to syphon them into the 10 gallon. It's not that stressful to them and they'll be fine.

More often than not captive raised angels will eat their fry do to inexperience and imaturity. It's best to just remove the eggs and raise the babies on your own. Unless of course you want them to learn, in that case leave the babies in and see how they do, after a few months or weeks they'll eventually get the idea and be able to do a good enough job on their own. If it's in a community tank it would be best though to remove them as most likely the other inhabitants of the tank will eventually figure out that the babies are a quick and easy source of food (although not a painless source of food as I'm sure you already know!)
 
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