Help needed with angle breeding problems

Good day all at TASA

I am a new member of TASA but not new to the hobby.

I am seeking some advice on breeding angles.
I have 3 breeding pairs all had some fry in old setup .
Old setup consisted of a 2foot tank for 1 pair and a split 3foot for the other 2 pairs. Both tanks had HOB filters.

Upgraded to 3 split 3foot tanks with a 3 foot sump.
After introduction to new tanks had lots of sponing from all 3 pairs .
But i strugle to keep the fry alive.
Feed them micro worns if thy are free swimming.
Do water changes every day but fry keep diing.
Dead fry have a mold or fungis on them .

 

Hi Cas

Are the parents raising the fry or are you pulling the eggs and hand raising?

Personally I find that newly hatched baby brine shrimp works better as a food source as well as the Hikari Tropical First Bites if you happen to run out of brine shrimp.

Do you have gravel at the bottom of your tank? generally when the fry die a fungus grows on the fry and the fry will also swell.

Are you managing to save any of the fry in a batch?

 

Wipe your glass and keep any sponges clean, no white or brown stuff must be on them. When you do wcs on very small fry ensure you are putting water back that is similar to the tank water.

 

Michell. I take the fry away if they are wiglers.

I use dare bottom tanks easier to keep clean.

I will try to start a brine shrimp hatchery.


Redfish. I take out all uneaten food that i can see.

Boerboel. I use alpha from aquavitro to condition the water for all my tanks. I'll let the conditioned water stand for a day to get it to room temperature, before I add it to my tanks.

This is my tank setup

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You seems to be doing everything right, try leaving a spawn with the parents for a week or two to see if it isn't the move that's causing your problems. You could also try to match the water temp but it's so hot right now that I doubt it's that. I see there's a filter sock, try rinsing that out everyday, any place that can trap detritus is a place that will harbor bacteria and fungus. Another thing that will help is to run an air stone in the water you are aging to stabilize the ph. Fry don't react well to ph fluctuations. Aerate it well so that all the stuff they use to up the ph gets gassed out.

 

Thanks boelderbeestie I will try the air stone.

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how long has the new set been runing?
sound a lot like water quality issue, but does not make sense based on your cleaning and water changes your talking about.
agreed with advice given leaving fry with parents for longer, air-rating new water for a day before, and cleaning often of filter socks and sponge filter.
feeding fry is always a bad for water quility, tones of small particles of food and waste that is normally to small to vacuum up or see, you may be over feeding the fry cause rise in amonian and nitrate being root of problem.
good luck and hope next batch goes along smoother

 

they do great with BBS
Try some Seachem stability to assist your new sump filter ( I presume its still new)

 

Try a fry/hatching jar. I use it all the time and NEVER get fungus. I also NEVER use chemicals like meth-blue.

 

These are three batches that hatched last week.

 

Sorry, did not attach the image

 

I have naturals, koi, and a lot of smokeys.

 

I am having a bit of trouble finding bulk brine shrimp eggs. I usually buy it in a 750g tin. Does anyone know where I can buy this?

 

Not sure where you stay but when i had my geo and acara babies, Wazeers in Boksburg always had brine shrimp which we bought from him
I am not sure if he keeps eggs in bulk but give him a ring

 

I am in Potchefstroom, I will contact them. Thanks a lot

 

@Cas how are you getting on with the angel breeding. I hope you are having success.

 

I have about a dozen fry at the moment hoping for the best

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