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Nkkb258

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okay so i bought three young angel fish a long time ago. they are all grown up now and i think i have a spawning pair! the only problem is i know nothing about angel fish and breeding them(i wasn't planning on breeding them) the reason i think i have a spawning pair is because:

my tank drys up quickly and i sometimes forget to fill up thetank and i have like these air filter things. I was looking on there today and noticed little round orange looking things. I realized they were eggs but the water had already gone down passed that point where the eggs were so the eggs are dead. I was wondering what could have laid them...i have my angel fish in that tank, guppys but they are live birth so they can't lay eggs, cory catfish but they never go up to the top of the tank, gold dojo loaches but they too never go to the top of the tank, and snails but there eggs look totally different from the ones i saw today.

so does anyone have any advice on how to care for the angel fish?

i think the guppys i have in the tank are eatting any eggs they do spawn so i will get rid of them as soon as i possible can. Plus i need to move the angels into a differnet tank so i can put my jack dempseys in the bigger tank. Whats the smallest size tank i can get when i have money to put the angels in?

or i could leave the angels in the tank they are in and move the jack dempseys into whatever big tank i get next.

so many things to do but just need a little advice before i do anything or make any desicions!

Thanks!
 
you can easy tell if it was the angels. if it was them they will spawn again in 2 weeks give or take. they will stick together then start being aggressive by chasing the other fish away. how much was the water dropped from the top?
 
I was going to say that you should concentrate on developing a routine with your tank so that the water does not evaporate as much, perhaps get into a regular water change routine weekly.

Likewise I would familiarize yourself with your equipment so that you know what these "these air filter things" are specifically and why they are there.

Once you develop a routine and have a better understanding of what is going on in the tank and learn more about each species you can concentrate on perhaps breeding and raising some fry from your angelfish.

Bill
 
you can easy tell if it was the angels. if it was them they will spawn again in 2 weeks give or take. they will stick together then start being aggressive by chasing the other fish away. how much was the water dropped from the top?

As mgamer20o0 says, it's real obvious when angels are spawning/ laying their eggs. They usually choose something vertical along an area of the tank like a filter intake or heater. Once she starts laying eggs, they are very protective of that area to any other fish and will constantly chase other fish away. But in a community tank, the eggs usually get eaten before they hatch by other fish or the parents.

For a dedicated tank most people say a minimum of a 29 gal for a breeding pair. I use a 55 gal with a divider for my 2 breeding pairs.

But most importantly, research, research, research! There is lots of info on this site and others, one that is actually dedicated to angelfish. It's a lot of work and expense to raise angelfish. And then you have to figure out what to do with them. I'm currently growing aut several hundred fry at various stages. That's a lot of mouths to feed.
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Dennis
 
Okay, I just cannot imagine the water evaporating fast enough to recede from an angelfish spawn. I would like to see a picture of what the "orange" eggs were.

Angelfish lay their eggs low enough in the water and they hatch soon enough that they would not likely be a victim of evaporation. If they don't hatch they would be white, or grey, not orange.

The only fish I would even consider, would be the corys, but again, not orange.

I am gambling that if they were any kind of egg they were snail eggs.

Bill
 
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