angel fish breeding-I need help!?

Question

I'm trying to get my girl angel fish to mate with the boy angel fish with out eating the eggs or laying them on the heater. she's done it about 3 times before, but I don't know when she's going to do it again.

Answer 1

Angelfish will produce eggs every 2-3 weeks once they start.
Move the heater. Any eggs she lays on the heater will be cooked. Provide a laying cone or a piece of slate rock leaned against the glass for the fish to lay eggs on.
If she's eating the eggs, remove them as soon as you see them, and raise them yourself.

Set up a small tank, 5 to 10 gallons, with an airstone. A filter is not necessary but if you have one, but it on lowest setting and put a nylon sock over the intake.
Put the slate or whatever they laid on into this small tank (make sure its CYCLED and use water from the parents' tank) and put the airstone about an inch or two away. This 'fans' the eggs.
Put 3mL of hydrogen peroxide per 5 gallons of water, every day until they are wigglers. This keeps the fungus away.

Be sure not to have substrate - the babies will get stuck in it.
Once they are free swimming, feed them live, newly hatched brine shrimp. You can also put in some plants like java moss, they will the infusoria.

That's about the gist of it. Feel freee to google it - much has been written on the subject.

Answer 2

The pair is isolated into a bare 20 gallon tank and conditioned on frozen bloodworms, brine shrimp, and high quality flakes. The temperature of the water is maintained between 80 to 82 degrees and spawning should take place within two to three weeks. If no spawning occurs within this time, I usually put them back into the rearing tank and look for another pair to develop.

A major indication that an impending spawn is approaching includes the cleaning of leaves, slates, rocks, and other objects around the aquarium. These objects will usually be on the upper half of the aquarium where angelfish prefer to spawn. Breeding tubes are also an indication that a spawning is near. A day before the spawn takes place, the breeding tubes of each fish emerge close to their anal area. The female has a blunt tube called the ovipositor that is used to lay her eggs. The male has a narrow tube called the papillae that is used to fertilize the eggs.


During the spawning process, the female rides her ovipositor onto the chosen object and eggs are laid in a successive line. The male follows behind her fertilizing the eggs as they are laid. This process usually takes place for about an hour.

After the last egg is laid, I usually wait about an hour until I remove the eggs from the pair. Since the male usually continues to make fertilization passes over the spawn, an hour wait would allow more eggs to be fertilized. The eggs are placed into a well aerated specimen container for hatching. As long as the specimen tank is kept between an optimum temperature of 80 to 82 degrees Fahrenheit (F), the eggs will hatch within 48 hours. The specimen tank is hung inside of a heated tank to maintain an even temperature. The young fry are kept in the specimen container until they become free swimming. For the first seven days, they feed off of their yolk sack therefore no feeding is necessary during this time.


Seven days after the parents have spawned, the young fry should become free swimming as long as the tank is kept at approximately 82 degrees F. Newly hatched brine shrimp is fed to the young fry for the first couple months. Weeks after they begin feeding, dry foods and eventually a beef heart mix can be introduced in small quantities until the fry develop a hardy taste for these foods.

Regular feeding and water changes can produce dime size fry in seven to eight weeks. At this age they can be sold to prospective clients.



It seams to me that the heater is the only place she seams suitable to lay. I would buy some PVC pipe or slate rock to lay on the bottom.
Try moving the heater! And take the eggs out when they are finished. After she lays you could remove her so that only he is left to fertalize the eggs. This way she cant eat them.

Answer 3

angels like to lay there eggs on rocks try putting a piece of flat stone or slate into a nursing tank put the heater in but try to put a bit of mesh round it so she cant lay on there once the eggs have been laid and fertilized take the angels out or they will eat the young dont put any gravel in the tank as its not nessersary