questions about angels-size, age, breeding

Star_rider: I feed once a day. Im pretty paranoid about overfeeding. heard that is a major cause of sick tanks and want to avoid that. I figured I was feeding enough because my smallest angel was TINY when I got it, dime size, maybe even smaller and she's grown alot in the 3 months I've had her. My maintanance is a 40% water change once a week. I haven't vacumned my gravel yet as I heard that the food and fish poop are good ferts for the plants.

Hebily: those are live plants, put in just yesterday. But I've had a planted tank for about a month. I took out the old plants (didn't like them) and added these.
 
Cool.. they should fill in nicely.

What star means is to do 3 or 4 tiny feedings a day. Overfeeding is a major issue, but more frequent, smaller feeding will actually help prevent problems. Also, do not pour food directly into the tank. This is an easy way to accidentally overfeed. Instead, put it in your palm, and then you can make sure it's an appropriate amount before putting it in the tank. You can figure out what a good amount is by putting it in piece by peice until they stop eating. The first couple times the amount they eat will change, but if you get them on a schedule, they will pretty much always eat the same amount.
 
Your angels can't be older than 4 months. You may see them spawn very soon.

I received 15 quarter sized silver angels a year ago in the second week of July and I grew them out and had 2 pairs form and spawn for me during the last week of August. They were well over half dollar size at that time.
 
ok here's a question and I hope that I do not get bombarded with people chewing me out for being heartless or anything. With the fish I have in that tank, if the angels do spawn, what are the chances that the babies will surivive? I ask this because I do not have another tank for raising fry and don't really want to. Is it mean and considered "bad fish ownership" to allow nature to take it's course in the tankk, so to speak?
 
Without the balas, you've got really good odds of many fry surviving. You shouldn't have a problem growing them out to dime size in tank (particularly if you only keep one pair), and you should be able to find a LFS that will buy them for at least $1 each. It might only be store credit, but still, that's pretty much free fish food forever (probably all your supplies).
 
No, it's not mean to not try & save any eggs or fry. Good nutritious food. First time parents often eat their eggs a few clutches. Don't feel bad, raising fry is a lot of bother IMO, but fun too.
 
so the bala's would be the only threat? the non parent angels wouldn't eat the babies? I don't have a problem with mommy and daddy angel fish raising the babies in the same tank and selling them to the LFS. I was actually hoping (unrealitically, of course) that all four angels are the same sex so there would be no reproducing! lol. I have 3 kids under the age of 5; that's enough baby raising for me right now! :-)
 
If all 4 angels are the same sex, they will almost definately fight, a lot. The 'other pair' will eat some of the babies.
 
they don't "fight". There is one (one of the bigger ones) who can be an ornery bully when he/she wants to be and will spend hours chasing the others around the tank and generally being a big meanie. Then he/she will stop and all will be calm for quite a while til he/she feels onery again. I have never seen any of the angels actually trying to hurt or injure another one tho. the two bigger ones defintily hang together all the time. The two smaller ones sometimes hang together, other times go their own way.
 
It sounds like the bigger ones might have already paired. Once they have paired, they will probably pick a part of the tank, and keep the other angels out of it. When they get older, they will probably get more aggressive towards other angels.
 
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