Juvenile angelfish, free to good home

Hi fellow members,

I am in need of a home for a few of my juvenile angelfish. I had a breeding pair that gave me about 400 eggs in one batch, and I managed to raise 350 of them to the size of a tooney (Canadian two dollar coin). One of the local aquarium shops took 330 of them off my hands, a friend took 5. Now I'm finding the remaining 15 are getting too big to keep all of them. If anyone in the Toronto area would like a few, I'd be grateful. They are up to about two inches across. No cost, just tell me you have an established tank.

Hi Gumby,

Tanker and born2lovefish are right, angelfish are very easy to breed, although sexing them is quite hard up until a pair starts their spawning "act". If you want a breeding pair, you should start with anywhere from 6 to 10 juveniles. The odds are then in your favour that you will get a least one or two breeding pairs.

The trick is in raising the eggs. First, you need a patient and understanding wife who will be OK with being ignored for the next three months. Between daily water changes and raising enough brine shrimp to satisfy a bunch of voracious fry, you will soon forget about your wife.

After my angels ate their first 4 batches of eggs, I decided to take matters into my own hands. I put a spare Eheim pipe inlet pipe into the tank. They laid their eggs on the pipe almost immediately. I then took the pipe out of the aquarium and placed it in a 10 gallon hatchery, put in enough methylene blue to make the water inky blue, and placed an airstone below the eggs, close enough to agitate the water around the eggs but not directly on the eggs.

Within 3 days, all but about 10 eggs hatched, and the little fry started wiggling their tails like crazy (they are very small at this point, about the size of the tiny screws used to hold the arms on eyeglasses).

About 6 or 7 days after hatching, they started swimming around. That is when I started feeding them just-hatched brineshrimp, three times a day. That continued for three months, until they were big enough to sell.

It was a fascinating experience, and I'd be happy to tell you more if you want to understand the complete process.

Hi Primetime,

I live down by Queen's Quay. Let me know if you are interested. My only concern with your 55 gallon are the cichlids.