(including me). I know I can say for myself and I'm sure many others Thank You for all the help you've given and continue to give today.
This was their 3rd spawn for me. The only one I pulled has been a nice success so far and the 2 I didn't pull have both been eaten. Guess I'll stop letting them try parenting. I can't raise the eggs they eat. ) the following pics are of the Zebra Lace- Black spawn. I had the spawn in a jar and they watched the jar intently while the eggs were in there. When I moved the jar to the tank next to them, they continued to watch their fry. Did they know they were theirs? I would think so because in the tank on the opposite side of them was the fry from the blushing angels and they paid no attention to them. Here's some pics for your enjoyment.
You gotta love watching Angels in the act of spawning.
What I used this time was the insert that Tetra so nicely adds to their tanks. Since I don;t have the same access to all the different backgrounds I used to and the scenes on the inserts are very natural looking, I used them. You'll notice they cover about 3/4 of the tank side and wrap around to the back of the tank. ( Do I need to say that they are taped to the outsides of the tanks? lol ) The breeding slates will be towards the rear of the tank so that the pairs can spawn undisturbed. The only time they should see each other is when they come to the front to feed.
, don;t crash.....they just get thrown away. At the moment however, most of it is still in my head so as things start to get more organized and settled, I'll be transferring my head notes into book notes. 
My pairs get numbered and the tanks get written on so I know who is where most of the time. I AM "old school" however and keep logs of everything in note books, not on computers. Notebooks, the paper kind
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Glad everything is coming together for you it looks great. Wish I were in Florida your getting to do what I would of loved to do. In the Midwest fish aren't in such high demand as they are in Florida or California, at least not where I am located. I'm surprised you even have enough time to post with all those spawns and feeding schedules. The adults look awesome I can't wait to see the fry when they start taking shape and getting color
As an after thought I wanted to say I Think the parents know their fry. Mine would protect theirs to the point of nearly jumping out of their tank if someone even approached to feed them.
I use computers to go online and play games on. Fish don;t know what a CPU is and I am just too tired of trying to explain it to them. I just want them to make good babies.
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Glad everything is coming together for you it looks great. Wish I were in Florida your getting to do what I would of loved to do. In the Midwest fish aren't in such high demand as they are in Florida or California, at least not where I am located. I'm surprised you even have enough time to post with all those spawns and feeding schedules. The adults look awesome I can't wait to see the fry when they start taking shape and getting color
As an after thought I wanted to say I Think the parents know their fry. Mine would protect theirs to the point of nearly jumping out of their tank if someone even approached to feed them.
) I know it sounds cruel but this is why I set up my pairs so they are on the top row and next to only adults. Once the eggs are gone, it seems more an "Out of sight, out of mind" kind of thing. It seems less stressful on the parents, to me, if they think they lost the spawn so they move on from there. At least that's how my old pairs seemed to handle it.
Now that the compressor is in action and I have more air, I can set up more of the tanks on the breeder rack which will save me some more headaches. Once the timers and water drains get installed, the whole process will become much easier. Once the a/c-heater gets installed ( re-installed ) I'll be... 
It took my angelfish pair almost two years to WANT to raise their own fry, then I took them out of community tank and let them do it. Mine were with their fry for over three months and it was horrible trying to separate them (just as you said it would be!) but after it was said and done the parents went right back to normal as if nothing ever happened. I wonder though if I put one of the fry back with them ,now that they are quite larger, if they would realize it was one of their fry?
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I wonder though if I put one of the fry back with them ,now that they are quite larger, if they would realize it was one of their fry?
I doubt that the fish recognize their offspring once they are removed then returned. They would most likely just be seen as an intruder to the pair. That's why some Angels will eat their free swimming spawn in order to protect their next spawn.
As for the Oscars vs the Children, just how bad do you want to see your children??
