Angelfish Breeding Probs....

[jaarus]

Hi all,

I have a pair of angels who are now on their 6th or 7th batch of eggs - and I am yet to see one wriggler? I read that they often get it wrong a couple of times - eeating the eggs themselves etc but after a few spawns they get the hang of it. Well as I say this is the 6th I think??


This is what happens.
(I leave the light on to give thema better chance at defending their eggs from the other inhabitants.)

She lays her eggs - he and her then take it in turns doing passes over them moving their fins rapidly I presume to keep the water around them moving.
There are always a few white (dead) eggs but not a lot.
A day passes there a few more white ones.
Another day passes and about 30% are white.
Another day passes and about 75% are white.
Nothing then happens at all.

In the end they start to lose interest a bit - spending time away from the eggs - so at that point that night I will turn off the lights in the tank and by the morning they have all been gobbled up.

So my question - I thought by day two or three you should see 'wrigglers' and by day five you should see eyes on them.


Why do mine just slowly turn white?
Water conditions are perfect - what am I doing wrong?

 

[Tolak]

What's your pH, gH, & kH?

 

[Heather.]

Are you sure they are male and female..and not 2 females??

 

[Tolak]

Are you sure they are male and female..and not 2 females??

In these situations the eggs usually all turn white in the same time span, not spread out. With harder water & higher pH the egg is less resistant to fungus, and it spreads easily. Pulling the spawn, and a trial by error mix of anti-fungals usually prevents this.