Angel laying eggs need help

Id say if they arent at risk of other fish eating them, let the parents look after them. I have been breeding angelfish and kribensis for a long time now and know that the best fish are the ones left to be raised by their parents. Also they are then better at breeding themselves. The parents may eat the eggs or wigglers on the first or second go and if this happens then just leave them to try again, if it happens more that 4 or 5 times i start taking the eggs out of the tank and hand rearing but I have found that angels like to be with their parents and generally i have had a lower mortality rate with them left in there. Lastly, taking them out requires a much larger effort on your part, making sure the eggs are well looked after and dont go mouldy, making sure there is enough water movement past them, feeding them properly and keeping them from any filters etc.

If you do decide to take the eggs out, you will have to have an established tank already set up with an airstone close by to the eggs. Also go and buy some meth blue which will stop them from growing fungus on the eggs. Make sure there is no gravel in the tank as if they are wigglers and they fall (more likley if parents arent there) they can get trapped in the gravel and die. When siphoning, make sure any you suck up are put back in and check water parameters constantly making sure you do regular water changes.
 
I moved them to their own tank (5 gallon) when they hatched to wigglers (3 days ago. Bare bottom,filter and a air stone about an inch from them. no problems have been observed. They are livley, but still atached to the rock, I just thought they would be free swimmers by now...maybe not?

This is my pairs first spawn, so im VERY new at the whole process, im going on what I have read and answers I have recieved from the "experts" or experienced people here :)
 
if they are wigglers going on 3 days..they should be free swimming soon.
 
So far so good. I have about 55-60 little guys. They are eating..and growing great, they now look like fish instead of tadpoles lol. fins are taking shape nicely. Mom and dad layed eggs again yesterday, on the intake tube again, they looked at the slate and apparently didnt like it LOL Im leaving these ones alone to see what happens (I have my hands full with the first clutch lol)

There are new additions to the angel fry tank, one of my swordtails had her babies tonight, while I wasnt home :( and I found four hiding in some java moss. so we shall see how they do.
 
Hi, I have been reading your posts about angle babies, I have been breeding for some time now, but always seem to lose a lot of babies once they are free swimming. I wait until the eggs are wigglers then I move them to a baby tank that hangs on the side of an aquarium, the water in the baby tank is from the parents tank, I give live brine shrimp from a hatchery, I suck out debis from the bottom daily, every so often (every 2 days or so) I dump out 3/4 of the water and add more parent water, I do have an air pump that I put on for an hour on then off for a while, since they are so small I don't want to tire them out. The water PH is more acid than alkaline, it is the same as the parents tank. Why do you suppose my yields are drastically reduced? The free swimmers seem to lay on their side struggling then die. Only the strong ones seem to survive. I just started with aged water for the hatchery instead of tap water, still waiting to see if this helps. Any suggestions?
 
Hi, I have been reading your posts about angel babies, I have been breeding for some time now, but always seem to lose a lot of babies once they are free swimming. I wait until the eggs are wigglers then I move them to a baby tank that hangs on the side of an aquarium, the water in the baby tank is from the parents tank, I give live brine shrimp from a hatchery, I suck out debis from the bottom daily, every so often (every 2 days or so) I dump out 3/4 of the water and add more parent water, I do have an air pump that I put on for an hour on then off for a while, since they are so small I don't want to tire them out. The water PH is more acid than alkaline, it is the same as the parents tank. Why do you suppose my yields are drastically reduced? The free swimmers seem to lay on their side struggling then die. Only the strong ones seem to survive. I just started with aged water for the hatchery instead of tap water, still waiting to see if this helps. Any suggestions?
 
I love all this, its all stuff i was asking when my angels had their first spawning. They have just spawned again( about 2 hrs ago) in their breeding tank. I have a separate 10g growing on tank and very shortly will have a 20g growing out tank. I never had any luck at all with hatching BBS, so i have always used frozen, and with a success rate of over 250 babies after 10 weeks, all happily growing i feel that there really is very little difference between newly hatched and frozen. Now if only i could get my Discus to do the same! What are you going to do with the babies? you may want to go to your LFS and see about trading them. I have done this and have 2 willing to buy/swap for goods. Hopefully I should be off-loading the first batch in about 2 weeks. I have always left the babies in with the parents for around the month. This, I feel, gives the parents sufficient time to recouperate after spawning. Though they will spawn every 2 weeks, to the day, (and, believe it or not, to the hour) I feel that the quality of Daddys sperm is greatly reduced, as I have had 3 spawnings where the eggs did not fertilize properly (after the first was a total success). I do have some video footage of them spawning, but I dont know where/how to post it. Good luck and i hope that they bring you as much joy as mine have.
 
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