Baby Angel Fish Have Hatched -- Now What?

[giganova]

Hi all --

I have a planted 29 gallon tank and a pair of breeding Angel fish. After they laid their eggs, I secured the leave with the eggs by a tank divider. All fish are on the other side.

Today is day 3 and of the hundreds of eggs, a dozen wigglers or so have made it! They are still stuck to the leave but are wiggling like crazy. Funny sight.

So what am I gonna do now? Shall I leave it as is for a few more days?

Thanks for your help!

 

[Tolak]

Build a bbs hatchery & give it a test run. Once they are swimming feed small frequent amounts of bbs.

 

[ArauraDiscus]

Yeah soon they will break off, but this is not free swimming. They will float to the bottom and wiggle on the ground. After about 3 days of wiggling they should be free swimming. When almost all are free swimming, start feeding them the baby brine shrimp (napulli) that Tolak mentioned.

 

[Straydum]

at this stage i added a drop or two of liquifry per day and once they start swimming around, definately baby brine shrimp.

 

[giganova]

Here is a quick update:

The Angel fish are now about a week old and are all swimming freely, about 200 of them. I didn't start feeding them but will buy some food for them today. Since they all left the incubator and swimming around all over the tank, the parents are extremely busy attacking all other fish in the fish tank. I put a tank divider into the tank with holes smaller than the babies and keep all Angel fish on one side, so let's see how that works out.

I honestly don't expect them to survive because I have a community fish tank, but encouraged by the breeding effort, I will buy a 10 gallon tank so if the Angel fish are spawning again in a few weeks, I will put the eggs into the 10g tank and raise them myself.

 

[Straydum]

why not transfer your fry into another tank? filling it with the same water as the parent tank