All About Angelfish Fry

By Bill White

Getting angelfish to reproduce is not all that arduous. Today's farm raised angelfish are well adapted to handle a variety of ecological conditions.

Once you have mastered the skill of breeding angelfish, your next phase is to successfully raise your angelfish fry. Proper location, water conditions, lighting and food are fundamental to maximizing your success and minimizing angelfish fry fatalities.

Initially your angelfish will in all probability be respectable parents and deal with the early rearing of the fry. It takes about three days after the fry appear for them to completely absorb the yolk sac. The yolk sacs on angelfish are pretty bulky and will preclude them from freely swimming around the aquarium. Mom will try her best to keep the wiggling group of fry condensed into one dense crowd of squirming, wiggling of angelfish fry.

By approximately the fifth day most of your wrigglers should be free swimming. Continue to make fifty percent water changes every day. The water ought to be clear and free of any methyl blue that was put in to begin with. You should to continue to change the water, roughly 50% every day with high quality conditioned water to ensure to no bacterial growth develops. Any white eggs remaining are unfertilized and will not hatch. You should use a dropper to vacuum up any pasty eggs on the bottom. That will reduce the likelihood of fungus growing on the other eggs.

Baby brine shrimp are considered the food of choice by experts for the first few weeks of their life. If possible they should be fed every 3 to 4 hours. It's important when feeding your fry to feed moderate amounts. Angelfish generally have insatiable appetites and can easily overeat during feedings. Your fry ought to be full but not bloated in appearance.

Into the eighth day of life the fry are most likely ready to be moved from the grow aquarium into a permanent fish tank. Water changes ought to still be performed and baby brine shrimp should still be the main food source..

After a couple of weeks. if everything has gone right up to this point, you may have too many for your aquarium. Also some have grown larger than others and can need to be separated. At this point, you must decide whether it's time to seek out a potential buyer for your growing angelfish collection.

Great video showing angelfish fry development

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