Butterfly

I have a pair of koi angels in the 75 G tank and once in a while they spawn but the eggs get eaten before I can get them out. the other night I noticed tehm defending a corner of the tank, and when I looked down into teh tank I saw wigglers lined up in a line about 3 inches long on the silicon of the corner. I sucked them out with a turkey baster and put them in a fry tank. the pics aren't great but I wanted to share.

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Gunnie

heheheheheheheh. Love is in the air..............

Butterfly

The wigglers are free swimmers now
Carol

Miss Mouse

WOW are those baby fish??!!They're SOOO small!!

Butterfly

yes those are fry hanging from the flower, and the black spots are eyes
Carol

Isabella

Butterfly that is so cute! Now you're going to have many baby koi angels. And koi angels are so beautiful ... so you're going to have a lot of fun with the little ones. How many do you think are there? What are you going to do with all of them when they grow up? Are you going to keep at least some?

Butterfly

Isabella I have more Koi angel wigglers as of yesterday and I noticed when I got in from work the black lace pair had spawned. Yes I always keep some, thats how I wind up with too many angels But I loce my little beggers.
Carol

Miss Mouse

I got some more today!! I got 4 little platys - lucky I saw your photo to know what to look for cos the other platy that was born on thursday was just like a mini platy whereas the newer ones are MUCH smaller and far less developed. I wonder why the other one was so well developed already?? Amazing what nature does... :

Butterfly

isn't it amazing!! Since Platys are livebearers you get to see them swim immediately after birth. The fry in the pictures were first angelfish eggs and after three days they hatch and are wigglers.then three days later they were swimming around. Its really so cool. Have three batches of Angel fish eggs right now, koi & marble,Koi and sunset blusher and black lace.
Carol

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chickadee

THIS IS SO CUTE! I have never seen fry before and I think the pix are really good. How fast they grow up!

Isabella

LOL that's so adorable! How many eggs are there? Do all of them survive? How many angels will you have from these eggs?

Butterfly

Thats daddy guarding the eggs(He's one of my babies and is about 18 months old) and he wasn't happy that I was even at that end of the tank Can you tell? LOL there are probably 70 - 100 eggs there. There's always a few that don't hatch or get eaten. I usually average about 25- 50 fry. I think everybody in town has some of my angels all they have to do is say "awww" and they go home with some will try to take pics after they hatch.
Carol

Isabella

HAHA that's cool If I lived in your town, you'd HAVE TO give me an angel like this! LOL

Butterfly

yep you'd be right there on my list
Carol

Miss Mouse

Wow thats a lot of eggs! You must be so proud to be able to breed such a beautiful fish That daddy does look very protective - wouldn't mess with him

Butterfly

Miss Mouse I put my hand in the tank yesterday to clean (have to do frequent water changes and keep the tank VERY clean) and he attacked my hand They can hit pretty hard when they want to.
Carol

Miss Mouse

Thats a sign of a good daddy Bit of a shock for you though

Butterfly

I have free swimmers. this is mom marble angel and babies. Can't see the babies real well but wanted to share anyway.
Carol

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Jason

Look great! you should start an Angel fish buisness.

Miss Mouse

Wow that's such a pretty fish! We had one similar YEARs ago but he bit all the other fish we had so we gave him to a friend.

Butterfly

It's always exciting having fry go free swimming. Doesn't take much for them not to survive. This is the only pair out of the three pair that just spawned to have their eggs make it to free swimming. The others just disappeared(mom and dad may have had a snack). Can't wait to see what the fry look like. They should start showing color in a couple of weeks
Carol

Isabella

Cute little angels Well, can't see them well, but most importantly they're there appearing as little dots swimming! Must be so cute. Have any recent pictures of them? Did they grow much? Oh, and mom is really beautiful!

Butterfly

Thank you, om's a sweety. Sadly all the fry just disappeared. But mom and dad are still at it. The pictures not real clear but maybe you'll enjoy it anyway.

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chickadee

Oh no!! My sympathies.

Rose

Butterfly

Thanks Rose. When fry are in the tank you have to do 50% every day and I was prob a little lax.
Carol

Isabella

Oh no What happened to them? All of them are gone? How? Not even one saved? They were so beautiful, I am saddened I mean, they were already free swimmers, what could have happened to them? Other fish ate them? Were they separated from all the other fish (except for mom and dad) or not? I am so sorry they're gone I really wanted to see them grow (in pictures)! It was life too! And now it's gone Well, maybe next time the fry will make it. Very nice video clip of the mom, Carol, cool.

Butterfly

Egg layer fry is so tiny(about 1/4 the size of new born guppy fry) for many weeks that just anything can happen. Sometimes they won't eat or Mom amd Dad have a snack of them, one ammonia spike and their dead. Being so small when they die it appears they just disappear. Sometimes breeding is frustrating but there are days that are so awe inspiring that I don't think I could stop even if I wanted to.
Mom and Dad already have another batch of freeswimmers going. I think I will move the parents this time although I usually leave them for at least a week after they go freeswimming. I like for them to be able to teach their babies what ever it is parents teach their babies in the wild.
Isabella I was sad too. I'm always a little depressed after I lose a batch so glad it doesn't happen often.
Carol
I accidently deleted this part of the post and just put it back- Carol

Isabella

Well then, it's good that they breed often. Since the fry's chances of suvival are diminished, they better breed a lot! And yes, I am the same way - I would also be sad if I had little fry and they disappeared! I even worry for someone else's fry, lol. That's because I am crazy about fish and all other animals, especially cats and dogs, haha Let's hope your new fry will grow to be beautiful angelfish.

newbie101

the pic is beautiful! i have always wanted a species tank of angelfish!