Newbie here. Looking to breed angelfish.

[mazdamomma82]

Hello I am looking into breeding angelfish. I was planning on setting up a 90 gallon main tank on a stand that can hold 4 10 gallon tanks on the bottom. I do have a few angels already in a 2 German blues in a 40 gallon and 2 younger ones in a 20 high. My idea was to put the younger ones in the 90 and watch for pairing offs and then move them to a designated tank for breeding. My Germans already fertilized eggs which they promptly ate so I will be watching for breeding again. I would like to know what you guys think of my idea and if you have any input or advice it would be very much appreciated!!

 

[Andy Sager]

Hello I am looking into breeding angelfish. I was planning on setting up a 90 gallon main tank on a stand that can hold 4 10 gallon tanks on the bottom. I do have a few angels already in a 2 German blues in a 40 gallon and 2 younger ones in a 20 high. My idea was to put the younger ones in the 90 and watch for pairing offs and then move them to a designated tank for breeding. My Germans already fertilized eggs which they promptly ate so I will be watching for breeding again. I would like to know what you guys think of my idea and if you have any input or advice it would be very much appreciated!!

Hi and welcome to the forum.
As for the Angels, what are your plans for growing out the fry? I am a former commercial breeder of Angelfish. In my system, it took 4 tanks per pair to save each spawn. 1 tank for the pair, 2 tanks for the eggs/wigglers, 1 larger tank for growing out the fry. My grow out tanks are 75 gallons and larger. The worst thing you can do is overcrowd the fry. Here's a link to an old thread here but it's a thread all about breeding Angelfish with contributions by hobbyists and commercial breeders ( I'm in there.... a lot ) and just about everything pertaining to breeding Angels and what to expect was discussed in that thread. Wigglers At Last!!!!!

Hope this helps.

 

[mazdamomma82]

Hi and welcome to the forum.
As for the Angels, what are your plans for growing out the fry? I am a former commercial breeder of Angelfish. In my system, it took 4 tanks per pair to save each spawn. 1 tank for the pair, 2 tanks for the eggs/wigglers, 1 larger tank for growing out the fry. My grow out tanks are 75 gallons and larger. The worst thing you can do is overcrowd the fry. Here's a link to an old thread here but it's a thread all about breeding Angelfish with contributions by hobbyists and commercial breeders ( I'm in there.... a lot ) and just about everything pertaining to breeding Angels and what to expect was discussed in that thread. Wigglers At Last!!!!!

Hope this helps.

Well I was thinking of using the 90 gallon for the growing out angel babies. I have a 37 gallon, 20 gallon, I’m in the process of getting the 29 and 75-90 gallon(I’m leaning towards the 90 gallon)
I’m doing this in my home so as much as I would LOVE a giant breeding setup I currently don’t have an extremely large amount of space. Thank you for your input and advice it’s very much appreciated

 

[Andy Sager]

Well I was thinking of using the 90 gallon for the growing out angel babies. I have a 37 gallon, 20 gallon, I’m in the process of getting the 29 and 75-90 gallon(I’m leaning towards the 90 gallon)
I’m doing this in my home so as much as I would LOVE a giant breeding setup I currently don’t have an extremely large amount of space. Thank you for your input and advice it’s very much appreciated

Here's the issue: It's very difficult to mix spawns that are more than a week's difference in age. The older fish will out compete and often kill off the younger fish so you need to have multiple tanks for the fry, not just one large one. If all you have is those tanks, I would suggest not breeding more than one pair of the Angels. As you'll read in the thread I linked, if you do it right, you will have spawns as soon as every 7-10 days and you really shouldn't move the wigglers to a grow out tank until they are at least 2 -3 weeks old. If you let the parents raise the fry, they are known to kill off the existing spawn to spawn again so parent raising fry does not guarantee you will have fry to grow up. Like I said, this was all discussed in the thread.