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Getting angelfish to breed is not all that complicated. Today’s farm raised angelfish are well adapted to deal with a range of ecological conditions.

As soon as you have mastered the art of breeding angelfish, your next step is to successfully raise your angelfish fry. Proper location, water conditions, lighting and food are vital to maximizing your success and minimizing angelfish fry losses.

At the outset your angelfish will probably be good parents and handle the early rearing of the fry. It takes around three days after the fry emerge for them to fully absorb the yolk sac. Yolk sacs on angelfish tend to be quite bulky and will inhibit their ability to swim for the first few days of their life. The mother angelfish usually works hard during this period to maintain the wriggling mass of fry all together into a condensed mass of wriggling fry.

If you have kept your angelfish eggs in a methyl blue bath initially you should be changing the water around 50% every day. By the time the fry are free swimming the water should be comparatively clear. Any pasty eggs ought to be siphoned out of the fish tank at this stage as they are unfertilized and will not hatch. If left in the tank they can trigger unwanted bacterial growth. Carry on the 50% daily water changes to keep the water uncontaminated and curtail bacterial growth.

The majority of experts agree that for the first couple of weeks your fry should be fed live baby brine shrimp. If your fry are eating the shrimp their bellies should have a reddish color to them. Experts differ on the amount of feedings per day, ranging from 4 to 12 times a day. The essential idea is that they are fed judicious amounts at each feeding. Angelfish will eat all that is given them and as a result can effortlessly overindulge. This will cause increased mortality in immature fish. Your fish should be satiated at each feeding but not overstuffed.

By the 8th day you should still be carrying out 50% water changes, and feeding free swimmers more of the brine shrimp nauplii. It will be time to move them to a grow out aquarium. They have no resemblance to Angel fish at this stage.

After a couple of weeks. if everything has gone right up to this point, you may well have too many for your aquarium. Also some have grown larger than others and may well 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.

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