Hi.
I posted this is the general forum not realising this was here so I have copied and pasted it over to the correct place. I hope someone can advise me.
On Monday evening I noticed that my pair of Angel fish had laid about 100 eggs(this is a guess for reference sake) on an Anubus leaf. There were one or two white "chalk" eggs which I understand are dead eggs.
The Angel fish were caring for them all very well cleaning and defending the clutch of eggs.
On waking Tuesday morning I would say that about 10 of the eggs had turned white and by the evening about 25ish. The Angels were still looking after them very well, and I was planning on going up the fish centre today to buy a tank divide and some brine shrimp to feed the fry that I thought were on the way.
However on waking this morning about 60ish of the eggs had gone white and most of the rest apart from maybe 8-10 had just disappeared. They are still protecting the eggs but I am fully expecting the small number that are left to also turn white which like I said I believe means they are dead.
Apart from the single pair of Angels I have 10 Platies which the Angels have driven to one end of the tank. Six algae eating shrimp and two Assassin snails which are carnivores. But I rarely see them as they spend most of their time in ambush mode buried in the sand.
I am assuming that the shrimp or Assassin snails have had the missing eggs but why would all the rest have turned white overnight? the speed of this also means that by tonight all the eggs will be gone or dead.
Any advice on this would be great so I can avoid this in future.
Tank is 150 with trickle filter heavily planted with java fern/moss and Anubus. Current temp is 25-26degreesC
I posted this is the general forum not realising this was here so I have copied and pasted it over to the correct place. I hope someone can advise me.
On Monday evening I noticed that my pair of Angel fish had laid about 100 eggs(this is a guess for reference sake) on an Anubus leaf. There were one or two white "chalk" eggs which I understand are dead eggs.
The Angel fish were caring for them all very well cleaning and defending the clutch of eggs.
On waking Tuesday morning I would say that about 10 of the eggs had turned white and by the evening about 25ish. The Angels were still looking after them very well, and I was planning on going up the fish centre today to buy a tank divide and some brine shrimp to feed the fry that I thought were on the way.
However on waking this morning about 60ish of the eggs had gone white and most of the rest apart from maybe 8-10 had just disappeared. They are still protecting the eggs but I am fully expecting the small number that are left to also turn white which like I said I believe means they are dead.
Apart from the single pair of Angels I have 10 Platies which the Angels have driven to one end of the tank. Six algae eating shrimp and two Assassin snails which are carnivores. But I rarely see them as they spend most of their time in ambush mode buried in the sand.
I am assuming that the shrimp or Assassin snails have had the missing eggs but why would all the rest have turned white overnight? the speed of this also means that by tonight all the eggs will be gone or dead.
Any advice on this would be great so I can avoid this in future.
Tank is 150 with trickle filter heavily planted with java fern/moss and Anubus. Current temp is 25-26degreesC
