Angels have spawned

[black angel]

I thought two of my angels were getting it together but thought i had plenty of time to prepare,but they laid eggs last night on the filter in a communuty tank.
They are doing a good job of caring as its the first batch but i want to know when can i move the young to another tank and can i take the female with them or is it best to leave them on their own?
The female is a koi and the male is a black marble.
All of this assuming i get the young past the first week and the plec.
They are in a 50 gallon tank and i have a 16 for starting to grow on and a 34 for growing on as well depending on how many make it.
I have read the pinned topic and hopefully i can help some of them live.

 

[Tolak]

Congrats on the spawn! I wish I knew why they love to spawn on unremovable objects like filter intakes.

If you could leave a dim light on in the room, it will help the parents protect the eggs from the plec, plecs love to eat eggs. Once they are freeswimmers, which takes about a week, you can move them. The parents are not necessary once they are swimming.

I would put them in a tank on their own, angel fry need really clean water, I do daily 50% water changes on 10 gallon fry tanks for the first few weeks. An adult in with the fry will just make more mess.

Many times the pair will eat the eggs themselves if they feel the eggs are threatened. If this is the case, don't worry, they will spawn again in a week or 2. I try to block filter intakes, as well as heaters with a couple fake plants or removable pvc pipe. This gives them a removable site to spawn on, as I have better results hatching out spawns in their own tank.

Tolak

 

[black angel]

Thanks for the reply Tolak. Its now day 3 and some more have gone white, but the vast majority, at least 150 are still ok and being tended.
I leave a small light on at night so no problems from the plec and i will remove them once they are free swimming, thanks.

 

[black angel]

Ive got a lot of wigglers but when the female gets close it looks like some of them are blown off and she eats them, is it the young shes eating or the empty shells as its hard to tell?

 

[Tolak]

She may be eating them, or she may be relocating them. Watch & see where she goes after she grabs them.

Tolak

 

[black angel]

She ate the first few but is now relocating the others to a leaf nearby, fascinating to watch.
I had fry years ago but never sat and watched the parents raise them.

 

[black angel]

ive got 30 baby angels

 

[cyprinut]

How is it going? Did you get them into another tank? My problem was always the adults wanting to eat them.