any one know about antum angel fish??

Question

ya so i have angel fish right and they layed eggs just a few days ago and whenever they lay eggs they end up eating them i dont get it? so how do u get an angel fish egg to hatch ??????

Answer 1

Do you mean altum angelfish? If you go tthose to spawn, congratulations! It's not the easiest thing to do :) And if they're just normal angelfish, well congrats as well. I love breeding angelfish.

Anyway, some parents just seem to like eating the eggs. Most of them will eventually stop eating the eggs, but if you want to raise some angelfish right now, then you can do it manually.

Set up a small (10-15) gallon tank with the water from the parents' tank. You can filter it if you want, just wrap a nylon sock around the intake tube. Heat the water to about 80-82F.
You can use methelyne blue or other funguside to protect the eggs from fungus (or just 1 tsp of hydrogen peroxide per 5 gallons, every day until they hatch).
Set up an air stone (attached to an air pump) in the tank.

Take whatever the angelfish laid their eggs on (a leaf - you may need to tie it down with a rock, filter intake, whatever) and place it in the tank, at the same angle (upright, usually, like vertically), so the eggs are 1-2 inches away from the air bubbles. This simulates the fanning action that the parents would do.

In about 2 days, the eggs will hatch into wigglers. They don't really do much, just wriggle around on the ground of on whatever they're attached to.

The following day, start thinking about starting your live brine shrimp colonies, because baby angelfish will eat nothing but live baby brine shrimp. I always have two BBS hatcheries going. It's easy to do, you can basically just take a plastic pop bottle, cut the top off, and put an air line at the bottom of it (attached to an air pump of course), then fill it with 1 litre of water, a few drops of water conditioner, and 2 tablespoons of regular salt. Then you add about 1/8-1/4 tsp of brine shrimp eggs. It takes about 24 hours for the eggs to hatch, and you can syphon them into a nylon sock or a BBS net using a some airline tubing (stain the water though the sock or net so you can put the water back in). When the first batch is hatching, start the second batch, because BBS are only good for about 24 hours. Rinse them in tap water and feed them to the babies.

Two or three days after hatching, the babies will be free swimming, and at this point they'll want to eat. You'll need to feed them at least 4 times a day.

Do regular water changes but do them carefully - don't suck up any babies.

After about 3 weeks, you'll want to look into moving them to a larger tank.

Answer 2

I think you mean altum angels. They are a different species than what you normally see in stores, but breed in pretty much the same fashion.

If yours are eating eggs repeatedly, I would suggest placing a few pieces of slate in the tank. Some flat on the bottom and some leaning against the sides of the tank. Hopefully they will lay on the slate and you can move the eggs to a hatching tank.

Caution though: when moving altum eggs you cant allow them to be exposed to the air. You will need to be able to put a large container in the tank, move the slate to the container and then move the container to the new tank.

Also, you should place an air stone near the eggs to keep water moving over them as they need plenty of water motion and aerated water to do well, but don't put it so that the bubbles hit the eggs. While similar, they are a bit touchier than "regular" angels. and get much, much larger.

Hope this helps

MM

Answer 3

I think I have. And the fish EATS the eggs? Gross... But hey, that life!

Answer 4

>_> Separate the fish and the eggs.