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Is she still holding the eggs?   Do you think there would be a health limit on how long they can hold them - more thinking will the eggs be reabsorbed / delivered infertile than harm to the fish...

In the past I've sometimes found a larger than average water change can bring on the egg laying.   I normally do about 20% per week, but I did a 50% change and 24 hours later I had eggs!   I'd be interested if you did separate the eggs to see how you get on with them, I've only tried this once...

I've seen it quite a lot with other juvenile cichlids, Angels, Sajica, Acara they take a little time to adapt to new food types. I tend to use granules and at first they would bite them and spit them out, they quickly learnt to not do this...  

Think about what he would eat in the wild, scraps of vegetation, bits of dead animals, just about anything that goes past them basically, a slightly dry piece of fish flake won't cause any problems at all.

Hi there, you want to try and wash as much of the bleach off as possible, then allow it to dry out completely. Leaving the lid off over night should be fine. I'd then give it another rinse to be sure.   A little bit of patience should be all you need.

I'd probably look to move those Mollies out, they will feast on the cory fry...

Reminds me of an article I saw on planet catfish  while back about people using plecos to keep algae down in unused swimming pools in the florida area. The fish seemed healthy enough and I think the only bones of contention were about the risk of them escaping into the local environment.

My last pair of Angels were exactly the same, my pride and joy centre piece fish, but whenever mating the bickering got pretty intense! This eventually wore one of them down to the point he/she died.   I've still got the survivor who is otherwise pretty placid but I'm not going to try and pair...

Glass is pretty cheap, isn't any mod you do to it going to cost about the same in the long run?

After my last spawn I bought a little breeding net to hang on the side, thought I'd try and raise some from the next batch, wouldn't you know they never did again!

They look beautiful!   If you get fry, whats your plans for raising them, or are you going to let nature take its course in the tank?

Think I'll live with the single one for now. I've seen it several times in the past when I've tried to introduce angels, always seems to start fine until you wake up one day to a shivering wreck of a juvie...   I'm moving house later this year and moving to a much larger tank, I might swap the...

Has anyone got any tips on how to re-introduce a fish to partner a mature male Angel. I have a similar situation to above a previous successful breeding pair, unfortunately one of the fish died some time ago.   Previous experience tells me that trying to introduce a single juvenile fish has...

It will be the same thing, it would be the same chlorines in the water that would irritate Goldfish as tropical fish

+1 for a rescape, or any significant change you can make. Maybe move the tank somewhere new, anything to take a proactive interest.   I find Guilt a huge demotivator in anything I'm doing. Stop feeling guilty and take little baby steps to proper routines again. If the thought of a full vacuum in...