baby angles.

[Acer]

ok i just got a call, if i want i can get 50 baby angelfish but they are a "big" pea size, i saw a pic of them and they looked like black von rio type tetras.. #1 how should i go about acclimating them>?
#2 what should i feed them? i have high quality flake, frozen bloodworms, and frozen brine shrimp.. what should i feed? im going to pick them up later tonight so i would appreciate those quick responses... thanks

 

[rich311k]

At that size size I would think they will eat crushed flake food. I know baby angles love newly hatched brine shrimp.They will want to eat 4-5 times a day. So change the water a lot. Good Luck with them.

 

[jrp1588]

8O What are you gonna do with those little guys when they grow up? I bet you could make a pretty penny selling the extras to the LFS

 

[Blazeherd2306]

Try to feed them newly hatched brine shrimp, aka nauplii(I think).


BTW- its spelled angels, not angles.

 

[rich311k]

I spelled it that way too. LOL

 

[jrp1588]

angles...lol. Better get out the protractor. would that be acute or obtuse?

 

[Stuart]

If they are baby "angles" they'll be "a-cute"

If you include bloodowrm and brine shrimp in their diet they will but on bulk in not time at all. Nice catch

 

[jrp1588]

haha

 

[mrcrazypants05]

But what tank are you putting them into?

 

[Acer]

haha.. i didnt catch that,... good shot Blazeherd2306 i didnt catch that till this mornin.. well i put some fine crushed food in and the didnt seem to even notice it, right now i have them in a 2 breeding nets, i picked up 50 for $15, i went halves with my friends mom, i tried adding 2 to my 29 to see how my older angels would react.. needless to say they had a good dinner unfortunately.. today after work im going to go pick up a heater for my 10 gal.. i think ill put the 23 in there for maybe a week or two while my 55 gal is done cycling.. good thing i put the filter for the 10 gal on my 29 so it has plenty of bacterium to avoid any huge cycle.. any suggestions? i know i might lose one or two but i want to avoid that, so any advice from anybody who ever kept angel fry is greatly appreciated..

 

[Acer]

8O What are you gonna do with those little guys when they grow up? I bet you could make a pretty penny selling the extras to the LFS

not really all of my lfs are kind of shady, i have this huge angel i bought at an auction for $4 his body is about the size of a cup with huge beautiful fins and they would only give me like $5 or 2 angels the size of a quarter.. they had some big ones like mine going for 20 and up!! i think i'll ask my neighbor if she will trade me for 3-4 smaller angels..

 

[jrp1588]

Man, that's just not fair, why can't my city have these fish auctions? I have to pay retail for em.

 

[Acer]

yah you pretty far from here, you should look around online to see if maybe there are any clubs or organizations that might do them, this one was pretty big, i was told by the l;ady in charge of the one i went to, that they always have mini auctions at the end of their meetings..

 

[BillD]

Angels of that size have probably not eaten anything but newly hatched BBS. I would prefer to get them to at least 3 times that size before starting them on flake. The key to raisinghealthy angels is to do large water changes, frequently. I would be doing 50% daily. Clean water is as important as quality food IME, maybe more.

 

[mvigor]

With angels that size you might want to stick with an airstone driven sponge filter, bare bottom tank, vacuumed out every night with a big WC.