angels finally bred

Was putting in the new lights and getting ready to do the water change when I noticed something funny on the highest floating leaves of the tiger lotus like 5cm from the water surface and what do u know its my angels finally laying.mummy and daddy are taking turns chasing all and sundry that get to near.today is a good day

 

Congrats wheres the pics

 

Well done Are those the Angels from Prof Dirk?

 

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! May this be the first of many spawns....

 

Congrats!!!
Angels are lovely to watch
All the best

 

A very strange place indeed but they seem to like that area.eggs are gone this morning but I see them picking at that same leaf again.thanx guys will post a pic later

 

In a community tank they will always eat their eggs. The pressure from the other fish is just too much and they then eat the eggs rather than let some other fish get lucky.

In order to successfully raise fry, you have to:

Keep the pair in a separate tank to spawn.
Have the same light conditions 24/7 till free swimming.
The parents will move the wrigglers around - do not panic and leave them be.
Minimize traffic around the tank.
Wil become free swimmers in about a week.

From free swimming stage:
Do daily water changes - difficult as you have to avoid sucking fry up.
Keep tank and water as clean as possible.
Feed live BBS a few times per day
Remove parents a few days after free swimming stage if you really want to raise the fry.

I tried to keep the pair with the fry. What I see happening is that the pair stop taking food. They snack on the fry when they get hungry and will only take food from you again when all fry is gone. Takes about a week to 10 days to finish them all off! During this time they will herd the fry into one section. Take fry regularly into their mouth, swirl them around like cleaning them and then spit them out with the herd. They might even spawn again while there is fry left. They do not hurt or mind them near the new eggs, but eventually they eat them all.

I might be wrong in my observations, as I got too lazy to do the daily water changes and did also not feed enough BBS. So the fry might have died and were then eaten.

I will dedicate more time to it this time around, as I do not have space to move the parents to.

 

Thanx tom,going to leave them be for now see what happens if they try again.will move them at a later stage to their own tank.ja jenn they are the profs angels

 

Ô Ô, I am outa here! :vroam:

 

mine also look ater their young for a few days

 

a pic of the eggs when the parents were awol