Pearlscale "Peruvian Altum" Scalare Angels Spawned

I have a pair of Pearlscale "Peruvian Altum" Scalare Angels from Altum which I received on Friday 04/01/2013. I have this pair in a 60L tank only with a large sponge filter and Ehiem heater. This one of the tank's i use to grow-out my betta fry, i decided to try out a pair these angels. The first 2 days where very scared so I left them and tried not to spook them off, as this tank is set-up very high out of any traffic. Late Tuesday night I noticed that pair started to clean the base of the tank and Wednesday approaching the tank to feed them both started to attack. The my eyes fell on this cluster of honey colour eggs. During Thursday eggs started to hatch and parents are continousely picking up fry and spitting them out again. During the course of the evening noticed that the pair had now moved the fry to the centre of the tank and guarding.

 

Congratulations on the spawn, may you have many beautiful babies that make it! ;-)

 

wow that was a quick spawn
wish i had such luck
congrats keith!
also pictures please
thanks

 

+1 please pic
@Altum anesome nice fish

 

I will post pictures later as I do not want to spook off the parents with flash photography.

 

Geez that's quick! Clearly like their new spot.

 

Wow - congrats - do you have pics of the parents taken previously?

 

where are the pics?

 

Really? Any pics of the parents?

 

Fry are now free swimming and a very large batch. Started feeding newly hatched baby brine shrimp. Parents are now more alert and aggressive when approaching the tank. The tank is set-up high out of any traffic movement so they do not get spooked off. Fry giving parents a hard time swimming all over the tank. The tank size is about a +- 80L as this tank I used to grow-out my betta fry. Last night was interesting parents gathered all fry together an placed them near the sponge filter as to say "bed-time". I am still keeping on the bed-lamp at night near the tank.

 

I will post some pictures later of parents and fry. As per their owner Altum the pair had spawned 29/12/2012 and amount of fry +400.

 

Here are the pair with their previous batch of fry

 

Hi @keith1964

They are beautiful, congrats again on the spawn.

 

Congrats on the spawn. They look really sweet

 

Congrats. That is a lot of fry!

 

Seeing that they had spawned so quick soon I will need to remove parents and they would probably spawn again. I have a spare tank running at the moment for the pair to settle down. I only noticed once the fry became free swimming that the batch is very big. This is a new challenge for me and later would venture into discus breeding.

 

Oh dear - sorry to say but those are not "Peruvian altums" - you have been had mate....





Note the shape and colour of the true "Peruvian Altums" posted above. You were sold normal domesticated angels from Asia and most probably paid a fortune for them? @Dirk can provide more info on the angel genetics etc.

 

EISH!!!!!:sad2:

 

I think the title to this thread is just misleading. It states both "altum" and "Scalare".
Peruvian "altum" is an oxymoron - no such thing exist. Lots of controversy about this.
Let @Dirk maybe comment here.
But tomy knowledge there are no Altum angels in Peru

Im sure Keith meant Peruvian Scalare only.

No ones been had, just a misunderstanding

 

They are still a really great looking pair of fish. Congrats