Dantum Angelfish Tank

A handful or ten babies. If I can just get them beyond wriggler for once, I'd also be happy

 

Wait until they hatch

 

Hatch and then move.

 

Well... they didnt eat the eggs last time so... I agree... wait for them to hatch and then move..

Good luck....

 

Don't know what happened with these eggs? Same parents, yet this time during their last spawn, there were only a handful of dead eggs. Could it be the leaf that they chose to lay on? Last time they laid on a non porous clay slab.

 

did the parents stay and fan the egg, were they fertilized properly, perhaps the leaf had some decay on it.... lots of possibilities that could go wrong in a general tank

 

The parents are still both fanning and guarding the eggs together. The leaf is quite fresh. Nothing else has changed since the last spawn. The only difference is the surface they've laid on. I suspect that the male may have missed fertilizing some of the eggs due to the leaf swaying about. Or could it have something to do with the fact that the rows are not as neat as they would be on a rigid surface? Could it be that the male orientates or aims himself visually from the bottom of the row, then swims upwards in a straight line to maximize fertilization percentage? It would stand to reason that a swaying leaf would have several missed eggs?

 

To many factors to try and control....

 

Yes breeding this way will have its pitfalls.

 

I agree with what has been said
Somehow the mouth brooders breed easly in a Community tank, I guess because they carry the eggs in their mouth
The egg layers, I have had no luck in the Community tank...

 

Maybe the male wasn't ready to fertilize the new batch? It's only been a week or so since the last lot. I can't think of another reason why there would be such a big diffs in the number of viable eggs. There are only about 5% that haven't turned white yet.

 

Beautiful fish mate, tank looking great too.

 

You will never get a big success like this bru. Im growing my angels out in planted tank but my breeding will be done bare bottom on a racking system.

This way is just to much of a chalange to me.

But maybe you will still prove me wrong.

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Shot bud.

 

I don't think so @Broder, sperm replacement takes 24 hours so I really dont think that was the problem... Maybe Im wrong..
Your 'moving leaf' theory is more feasable to me than the male not being able to fertilize the eggs a week apart.
But I guess you will never know for sure

My geos and electric blue acaras spawned 3 times wthin a few days of each other and all 3 spawns were sucessfull
My severums.. well.. their eggs just vanished every time but the male did fertilize them and that was also 3 times in a row but in a community tank...

 

Thanks @Reedfish. I'll have a look if I still have a test kit, but I don't think that we have particularly hard water in EL.