They are so precious!!! My 2 have started laying a huge amount of eggs. Tha k you for going I to so much detail. I had so much anxiety because I thought I had my temp low enough they woukdnt breed but they decided to anyway. Was not prepared but this video helps a lot!
Cool....always liked angels....my very first fish when I was a kid was an angel....got away from them but Jack is wanting some so we get some again....👍
Great show . Any way to feed fry kind a like automatically ? As in a device out there ? Has anyone had and experience out there? Auto feeders that is . Thanks all . Peace out lol 😆
in general you read that artemia is better, less fat content, higher in protein then worms. But yes i food them microworms, walterworms and bananaworms as well now and then. But the main food is life artemia in the beginning here (90 % of the time), very easy once you got a good setup.
I know you turn off sponge filter to feed free swimmers , do you have it turned off all the time with a separate airstone while they are Wiggler's to free swimmers?
I removed the eggs from the community tank and placed them in a small 10 gallon tank with fresh water. I placed an airstone under the slate where the eggs were, and at that time, they were all kind of a yellow/brown. I also put in a heater at 82 degrees and a small sponge filter. I also added a little Methalene Blue. The second day, 10-15 eggs were white. By the third day, over half the eggs were white. I tried to remove them with an eye dropper, but seemed like I was suking in the good eggs as well as the bad ones, so I finally quit. At the end of the 3rd or 4th day, it looked like what eggs weren't white hatched and fell to the bottom of the tank. Doesn't appear to be alot of them, but I can see a few that are moving. My question is, they seem incredibly small compared to the ones in your video. Will they get larger quickly at this stage, or are they even wigglers?
Don Norton they start off quite small. They’ll grow fast. As for why so many turned white, the parents may have been disturbed and the male didn’t get to properly fertilize the eggs, that or sometimes they just mess up on their first few tries
@@philthytanks4952 Thanks. Not sure I have any that survived, although I can see a couple very small fry? kind of wiggling. But they're not moving that much. Hard to believe they could be angelfish fry.
This has happened to me a couple of times, the first time time though was really good , but then after they became free swimming and I fed them, they just kept being less and less , and finally I tried to bring the parents in to look after the last few of free swimming but they must’ve ate them ;( , now each time I try to keep the eggs alive , they all turn white on the second ish day ?? Not fertilised ? Also how do you do a whole water change , when do you need to do it?
Yes, the parents are fine with the babies, though only if alone. If it’s in a community tank there’s a good chance the adults might eat the babies if they become panicked or overcome by other fish getting too close to the babies. This is why I always raise them alone to be safe. But if your tank is just the parents and babies they’ll likely be just fine
methleyne blue or hydrogen peroxide does little to nothing. I've done this quite a bit, nothing stops the fungus on dead eggs. My strategy now is to pick out all white eggs by hour 20 and remove it from the parents at that point to a jar, then check it for any more white eggs again at hour 40. this has kept fungus to nil, and a decent hatch rate. There's always going to be some infertile eggs for whatever the reason, right after they are laid for the next 6-10 hours the infertile ones start turning white. white is OK for a short time, hairy white is bad and as that grows will kill off more good eggs and wrigglers. clear out white eggs by hour 20 with a toothpick and remove them to the rearing jar, then check it again at hour 40 for any more white eggs, and it's working out. No methelyene blue, not nothing, no fungus. just got to take out the infertile eggs.
you don't have to feed them every 4 hours. Plants will give them infusoria 24/7. I work with roots of emerse pothos plants, which also help keeping nitrates at a very low level... it's helpfull when you don't want to go completely crazy and when you miss a day of changing water... Life food will also give you time to go to work, without nursing them every 4 hours. Life artemia survives more then 12 hours in freshwater, walter-, banana- and microworms even longer. Go for life artemia if possible, it's the best food... I cycle 2 artemia cultures, and make new ones in the morning and evening, so i can feed them 2 times a day and provide them constant artemia, and do my dayjob as well... You will learn to grow them up in a very healty way, spending less time, after raising some batches of angels. You never stop learning to improve. Don't try to raise them in a tank that is too little when they have a certain size, because that will go wrong.
To each their own, this method works for me and keeping the water quality that good doesn’t have any negative effects on mine, though you’re welcome to do water changes at whatever rate works for you
Also just out of curiosity, as I’ve never had any negative outcome from doing this, have you? Just curious as I’ve never had issues with my fish having water that was “too clean” as long as they’re not going from very dirty to very clean water
I'm raising a about 100 babies right now from a pair of Philippine blue angels and it looks like half the spawn will be Philippine blue and half will be platinum. I left them with the parents for two weeks before moving them to a grow out tank. The parents did a great job with them but it was their 4th or 5th attempt before getting the hang of it.
One of the most helpful videos on TH-cam on how to take care of the fry. Most videos show about how to breed the angelfish and when they’re already fully developed. Not so much the wriggler stage and when they get to free swimming. Thank you so much!!
I have my first bunch swimming now, had to remove male as he was eating them and attacking the female. They are now free swimming with the mum. I have first bites but might try spirulina powder that I feed guppy fry. Wish me luck
First off thank goodness I found you BEST video on the web. now I just had one batch 6 fry live they are free swimming in a ten gal. tank and my parents just laid like 150 more yesterday I have a fifty five for parents and ten for babies with sponge filters and heater. now can I put the new eggs in with the 6 free swimmers and be ok or ???????????? I'm brand new to this so a little lost on if I can combine litters that are so close to birth date. I do not have anything close to what you have like spare tanks etc. YET lol
policy of truth hey, sorry I didn’t see this comment til now, I usually put eggs in a container when I’m out of tanks, as long as there’s a heater in with them, or are kept in a warm enough area, I’ve hatched eggs out in pretty much anything that can hold water haha. As for mixing batches, as long as fry are around the same size I often mix them together when short on room, as long as they’re somewhat close in size they won’t bother each other
Bless im lucky with the 2 i have that paired up there in a community tank with rainbow fish and other angels they had a load of eggs laid around week ago i left be and there doing amazing nothing gets near them the male is super protective and packs a mean punch haha mum is protective also mine are now wriggling im waiting to see them free swim then ill pop them in bredding net still inside the main tank ill leave some with parents but as i feel bad taking them all when mum and dad have done such a good job
Can I pestle and mortar First Btes to powderize them into something smaller for the tiny free swimming stage? I have wigglers which will probably need to begin eating in a few days once they free swim, looking for something I can just buy at a petco nearby
Hi me too breed anglefish. After remove the parents the fry start to be less day by day . Same too keeping with parents it become less. I feed them instant dry artemia. Water change 20% daily. I use water been kept over nite. Im using spaunge filter. No heater been use or aquarium lights. Aready few batches but one also never sucess all seem to die day by day. Doesn' t know where is the root cause. So disapointed. Kindly advice. Thank you.
I suggest if you want to remove eggs you should remove them when they are wrigglers as they are already hatched and can die as easily when being transported
So I pulled the male because it was beating the crap out of the female. She produced eggs and I want them. Should I add the male to fertilize the eggs? or should i just count it as a loss? I understand when the mate it can be a little rough but the male chewed her fin almost down to the nub(being sarcastic kinda)
I’ve never seen a male fertilize eggs he wasn’t there for when laid. If possible I’d keep them together just long enough to spawn, then either leave them or at most remove the female n give the male a few hrs to fertilize (I always leave the,m together) then I tend to either pull the eggs to another tank or I move the parents to another tank.
@@philthytanks4952 thanks. Yah I have a feeling if I add him in the tank he will end up eating the eggs and beating her behind. They were successful a few months ago in self raising the fry not sure why the dude is so aggressive this time around🤷🏽♂️
Hi I'm from South Africa and I was wondering what temperature you had in th jar for the newly hatched fry and I was wondering, don't they need oxygen? Thank you so much I love you video and you are cute
Yes, but they don’t tend to take them as well until they’re a week or two old. Feeding that in the first week causes a lot of water pollution as much of it’s too big for them to eat. So if possible, I’d go with fresh hatched for the first 1-2 weeks then swap to decapsulated. Otherwise ur gna be needing to clean the tank quite a bit
Thanks but I bee keeper and in summer no time for anything else as full time bees 7 days a week, only break is the weather bees do not fly in rain or high wind or cold
put them as big as possible, taking care that they take the food. Different ways to succeed in feeding in a proper way. I noticed more disformations and gill problems when raising them in a tank that is too small. I use a small bucket (20 liter) for the first weeks, then 40 to 60 liter the weeks after, and after 4 to 6 weeks, they are ready here to go in a 600 liter tank with lots of good filtration media. More stability, and you can skip a day or 2 changing water. I do that in case of batches of around 200 to 250 fry coming out of one nest.
Hey mate, mine started free swimming and then over a day or two they declined in health and went to the bottom and started dying one by one. I had nice clean water, no substrate and started feeding lightly however didn’t know if they were feeding or not.
Not sure what you’re talking about, though I made this video 2 years ago, I still continue to have very very high survival rates. Not sure if you misheard something, but live brine allows you to work long hours with them able to eat throughout the day as the brine stay alive in there
They are so precious!!! My 2 have started laying a huge amount of eggs. Tha k you for going I to so much detail. I had so much anxiety because I thought I had my temp low enough they woukdnt breed but they decided to anyway. Was not prepared but this video helps a lot!
Cool....always liked angels....my very first fish when I was a kid was an angel....got away from them but Jack is wanting some so we get some again....👍
Thanks for the video after this I think I might breed my angels now
Enjoyed watching the different age of the angelfish babies. Thank you for sharing your experience.
I love it, you’re a good teacher! blessings 💕💯💕💯
A really good video with a lot of info. thanks
thats so cool.i have a Angel fish.and its so cool that you have that much angel fish
Good info. Thanks 👍
cool bro
Ok. I listened again. I think that you mentioned seeded sponge filter after they become free swimming?
never bred these fish before, however had heard of several ways to do so.This adds to my list . I like this.
Nice video,great work and very informative👍👍👍
New frend here,greating from Indonesia👌👌👌
Wow. Alot of work but worth it. Do you sell & ship?
Great show . Any way to feed fry kind a like automatically ? As in a device out there ? Has anyone had and experience out there? Auto feeders that is . Thanks all . Peace out lol 😆
Hi there, I am new to your channel. thanks for this very informative. I am from Manila :-)
Do you think those just free swimming fry will take microworms at first? Or are they big enough at that point to take newly hatched brine shrimp?
How many water changes do you do and how do you prevent sucking the fry up?
I reckon the best first food for angel fry is micro worms. Super easy live food.
Yeah, though I always forget about my
Micro worm cultures and they become a mess 😂
in general you read that artemia is better, less fat content, higher in protein then worms. But yes i food them microworms, walterworms and bananaworms as well now and then. But the main food is life artemia in the beginning here (90 % of the time), very easy once you got a good setup.
I know you turn off sponge filter to feed free swimmers , do you have it turned off all the time with a separate airstone while they are Wiggler's to free swimmers?
Great video! How old do ángel take to mature?
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I removed the eggs from the community tank and placed them in a small 10 gallon tank with fresh water. I placed an airstone under the slate where the eggs were, and at that time, they were all kind of a yellow/brown. I also put in a heater at 82 degrees and a small sponge filter. I also added a little Methalene Blue. The second day, 10-15 eggs were white. By the third day, over half the eggs were white. I tried to remove them with an eye dropper, but seemed like I was suking in the good eggs as well as the bad ones, so I finally quit. At the end of the 3rd or 4th day, it looked like what eggs weren't white hatched and fell to the bottom of the tank. Doesn't appear to be alot of them, but I can see a few that are moving. My question is, they seem incredibly small compared to the ones in your video. Will they get larger quickly at this stage, or are they even wigglers?
Don Norton they start off quite small. They’ll grow fast. As for why so many turned white, the parents may have been disturbed and the male didn’t get to properly fertilize the eggs, that or sometimes they just mess up on their first few tries
@@philthytanks4952 Thanks. Not sure I have any that survived, although I can see a couple very small fry? kind of wiggling. But they're not moving that much. Hard to believe they could be angelfish fry.
This has happened to me a couple of times, the first time time though was really good , but then after they became free swimming and I fed them, they just kept being less and less , and finally I tried to bring the parents in to look after the last few of free swimming but they must’ve ate them ;( , now each time I try to keep the eggs alive , they all turn white on the second ish day ?? Not fertilised ? Also how do you do a whole water change , when do you need to do it?
can you leave them with the parents?
Yes, the parents are fine with the babies, though only if alone. If it’s in a community tank there’s a good chance the adults might eat the babies if they become panicked or overcome by other fish getting too close to the babies. This is why I always raise them alone to be safe. But if your tank is just the parents and babies they’ll likely be just fine
methleyne blue or hydrogen peroxide does little to nothing. I've done this quite a bit, nothing stops the fungus on dead eggs. My strategy now is to pick out all white eggs by hour 20 and remove it from the parents at that point to a jar, then check it for any more white eggs again at hour 40. this has kept fungus to nil, and a decent hatch rate.
There's always going to be some infertile eggs for whatever the reason, right after they are laid for the next 6-10 hours the infertile ones start turning white. white is OK for a short time, hairy white is bad and as that grows will kill off more good eggs and wrigglers. clear out white eggs by hour 20 with a toothpick and remove them to the rearing jar, then check it again at hour 40 for any more white eggs, and it's working out.
No methelyene blue, not nothing, no fungus. just got to take out the infertile eggs.
you don't have to feed them every 4 hours. Plants will give them infusoria 24/7. I work with roots of emerse pothos plants, which also help keeping nitrates at a very low level... it's helpfull when you don't want to go completely crazy and when you miss a day of changing water... Life food will also give you time to go to work, without nursing them every 4 hours. Life artemia survives more then 12 hours in freshwater, walter-, banana- and microworms even longer. Go for life artemia if possible, it's the best food... I cycle 2 artemia cultures, and make new ones in the morning and evening, so i can feed them 2 times a day and provide them constant artemia, and do my dayjob as well... You will learn to grow them up in a very healty way, spending less time, after raising some batches of angels. You never stop learning to improve. Don't try to raise them in a tank that is too little when they have a certain size, because that will go wrong.
And grrrr years ago
After the fry hatched and are able to swim they shouldn't have to swim that far to the surface. They need to fill their swim bladder with air.
You should not be changing more than 50% a day with a good filter at the later stage.
To each their own, this method works for me and keeping the water quality that good doesn’t have any negative effects on mine, though you’re welcome to do water changes at whatever rate works for you
Also just out of curiosity, as I’ve never had any negative outcome from doing this, have you? Just curious as I’ve never had issues with my fish having water that was “too clean” as long as they’re not going from very dirty to very clean water
I'm raising a about 100 babies right now from a pair of Philippine blue angels and it looks like half the spawn will be Philippine blue and half will be platinum. I left them with the parents for two weeks before moving them to a grow out tank. The parents did a great job with them but it was their 4th or 5th attempt before getting the hang of it.
Awesome video!!
Since you are working long shifts you can use green water (basically algae) to feed young fry for 5 to 6 days.
One of the most helpful videos on TH-cam on how to take care of the fry. Most videos show about how to breed the angelfish and when they’re already fully developed. Not so much the wriggler stage and when they get to free swimming. Thank you so much!!
Hi just wanted to know when the are in the wrigglers stage they have like membrane that makes them stuck to substrates how do you overcome that?
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I have my first bunch swimming now, had to remove male as he was eating them and attacking the female. They are now free swimming with the mum. I have first bites but might try spirulina powder that I feed guppy fry. Wish me luck
First off thank goodness I found you BEST video on the web. now I just had one batch 6 fry live they are free swimming in a ten gal. tank and my parents just laid like 150 more yesterday I have a fifty five for parents and ten for babies with sponge filters and heater. now can I put the new eggs in with the 6 free swimmers and be ok or ???????????? I'm brand new to this so a little lost on if I can combine litters that are so close to birth date. I do not have anything close to what you have like spare tanks etc. YET lol
policy of truth hey, sorry I didn’t see this comment til now, I usually put eggs in a container when I’m out of tanks, as long as there’s a heater in with them, or are kept in a warm enough area, I’ve hatched eggs out in pretty much anything that can hold water haha. As for mixing batches, as long as fry are around the same size I often mix them together when short on room, as long as they’re somewhat close in size they won’t bother each other
thank you so much
Bless im lucky with the 2 i have that paired up there in a community tank with rainbow fish and other angels they had a load of eggs laid around week ago i left be and there doing amazing nothing gets near them the male is super protective and packs a mean punch haha mum is protective also mine are now wriggling im waiting to see them free swim then ill pop them in bredding net still inside the main tank ill leave some with parents but as i feel bad taking them all when mum and dad have done such a good job
How do you keep the temp warm enough when there just in a jar without a heater?
Do you think a higher flow filter will slow the growing? I have about 80 or 90 angelfish with about 5 months and they are only about 2cm
Can I pestle and mortar First Btes to powderize them into something smaller for the tiny free swimming stage? I have wigglers which will probably need to begin eating in a few days once they free swim, looking for something I can just buy at a petco nearby
Hi me too breed anglefish. After remove the parents the fry start to be less day by day . Same too keeping with parents it become less. I feed them instant dry artemia. Water change 20% daily. I use water been kept over nite. Im using spaunge filter. No heater been use or aquarium lights. Aready few batches but one also never sucess all seem to die day by day. Doesn' t know where is the root cause. So disapointed. Kindly advice. Thank you.
I suggest if you want to remove eggs you should remove them when they are wrigglers as they are already hatched and can die as easily when being transported
When are you supposed to put sponge filter in ? Is it supposed to be brand new or a seeded sponge filter? Mine has not hatched yet. Any tips?
How do you feed them 4 times a day and still keep tank clean?
Why do my fry not get fertilized????
Thank u this video helped me alot
Buddy i got first bites and bbs is on it's way. What should I do with first bite leftovers laying on the bottom of tank? It's first free swimming day
Congrats. Sry for the late reply, I use pipettes or turkey basters to remove uneaten food, just be careful not to suck up any of the fry
@@philthytanks4952 thanks. I left it and the algea on the bottom glas take cared of it. It's gone now. They're only getting bbs now. 👍
Very nice video. Like 32. Have a nice day my friend.
So I pulled the male because it was beating the crap out of the female. She produced eggs and I want them. Should I add the male to fertilize the eggs? or should i just count it as a loss? I understand when the mate it can be a little rough but the male chewed her fin almost down to the nub(being sarcastic kinda)
I’ve never seen a male fertilize eggs he wasn’t there for when laid. If possible I’d keep them together just long enough to spawn, then either leave them or at most remove the female n give the male a few hrs to fertilize (I always leave the,m together) then I tend to either pull the eggs to another tank or I move the parents to another tank.
@@philthytanks4952 thanks. Yah I have a feeling if I add him in the tank he will end up eating the eggs and beating her behind. They were successful a few months ago in self raising the fry not sure why the dude is so aggressive this time around🤷🏽♂️
Where did you find that big jar for your wrigglers???
Hi I'm from South Africa and I was wondering what temperature you had in th jar for the newly hatched fry and I was wondering, don't they need oxygen? Thank you so much I love you video and you are cute
How many days it take for the wigglers to switch out to ugh another aquarium English
look at all those baby!!
Hi, may I know if did you remove the excess food on it after they eat?
what is your aquarium dimensions 😁😁
Will fry accept decapsulated brine shrimp eggs?
Yes, but they don’t tend to take them as well until they’re a week or two old. Feeding that in the first week causes a lot of water pollution as much of it’s too big for them to eat. So if possible, I’d go with fresh hatched for the first 1-2 weeks then swap to decapsulated. Otherwise ur gna be needing to clean the tank quite a bit
What do you feed your angelfish fry?
Good size Angelfish 🐠🐠
what brand methylene blue
Great video, do you struggle to sell that many angels? I imagine it would be difficult. Thanks.
Anytime I have too many I just sell them in bulk to fish stores :)
It's always nice seeing some aquarium co-op products being used by other people!
Thanks but I bee keeper and in summer no time for anything else as full time bees 7 days a week, only break is the weather bees do not fly in rain or high wind or cold
When to transfer the fry to a growout tank sir?
put them as big as possible, taking care that they take the food. Different ways to succeed in feeding in a proper way. I noticed more disformations and gill problems when raising them in a tank that is too small. I use a small bucket (20 liter) for the first weeks, then 40 to 60 liter the weeks after, and after 4 to 6 weeks, they are ready here to go in a 600 liter tank with lots of good filtration media. More stability, and you can skip a day or 2 changing water. I do that in case of batches of around 200 to 250 fry coming out of one nest.
I use to breed Angels alot. Had over 1000 at one point...... Good information 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Hey mate, mine started free swimming and then over a day or two they declined in health and went to the bottom and started dying one by one. I had nice clean water, no substrate and started feeding lightly however didn’t know if they were feeding or not.
I don't like this tutorial at all. There are like so many things wrong with it! You work long hours so you just let them die?
Not sure what you’re talking about, though I made this video 2 years ago, I still continue to have very very high survival rates. Not sure if you misheard something, but live brine allows you to work long hours with them able to eat throughout the day as the brine stay alive in there