Breeding pair of Angels

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garyroach

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Apparently I have a breeding pair of angels. It wasn't intentional. I just picked out two I liked and apparently they like each other too. So, now I have a bunch of fuzz with tails on a broad leaf in the tank. They didn't start out on the broad leaf, though. The eggs were originally laid on an intake tube, then moved to the leaf. The only other fish in my 55 gallon tank is another angelfish. That wasn't planned either. It just worked out that way. The breeding pair stay on their end of the tank and the other angel stays on it's end of the tank. My question is this. What's going to happen now? I would like to have a couple more angelfish in the tank, but I don't have room for more than that. The only other tank I have is a 10 gal qt tank and I don't have room for another large tank. Will the other angel eat the young when they begin to swim about the tank? Will the breeding pair continue to breed? Since this is the first time it has happened, it's interesting, but I'm really not interested in raising angelfish.
 
Don't buy any more angelfish. You'll have to get rid of the third one and allow the pair to raise the fry. If the parents fail their duties, the third angel will obviously eat the fry. Breeding pairs will, of course, continue to spawn.

Congratulations!:thumbsup:
 
If I do remove the other angel, how many angel fry can I expect to survive assuming I do what's needed to keep them alive and how many will make it to adulthood if they and their parents are the only fish in the tank? Thanks.
 
I know this is unusual, since most people seem to want to breed angelfish, but, is there any way to keep a breeding pair from breeding?
 
garyroach said:
If I do remove the other angel, how many angel fry can I expect to survive assuming I do what's needed to keep them alive and how many will make it to adulthood if they and their parents are the only fish in the tank? Thanks.
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They will usually lay 150-200 eggs. I'd expect almost 100 from you.
 
garyroach said:
I know this is unusual, since most people seem to want to breed angelfish, but, is there any way to keep a breeding pair from breeding?
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You'll have to separate them. Please don't even try it.:silly:
 
No more wigglers. I noticed after a water change yesterday that there didn't seem to be as many wigglers. When I turned the lights on in the tank this morning I thought it was unusual that the other angel was on the breeding pairs side of the tank and the breeding pair wasn't attacking it. Then I saw that all of the wigglers were gone. Such is life.
 
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