Bolivian Ram and Angelfish wigglers at the same time!

I have a 75 Gallon planted tank with Bolivian Rams, and a pair of Blue Angels. On the left side of my tank I have a big piece of slate, and some Anubias plants. I did a 50% water change a few days ago and used cold water for the change. Within 24 hours of this, two of my Rams paired up, and laid eggs on this piece of slate. A few hours later, my Angelfish laid eggs on one of the Anubias plants right next to this piece of slate. It's funny, it's like they were using each other for extra protection, but couldn't care less that these pairs were so close together. I have never raised fry before, so I quickly researched how to set up a fry tank. I removed the piece of slate, and the leaf from the Anubias, and put them in the same 5 gallon fry tank. I just came home from work today, and the piece of slate and the leaf are completely covered with wigglers! Holy ! I didn't really have my hopes up because I have never done this before, but I definitely was not expecting both clutches of eggs to hatch as well as they did! I was using Malachite green as an anti-fungus, and just did a 50% water change last night, and added more malachite green. Now that I have wigglers, how often should I do a water change??

 

I'd suggest daily water changes, but be gentle and be very careful you don't suck any of those wigglers up in your siphon

I could be wrong, but I think angelfish fry can be left in the main tank, as the parents will raise them? Might want to look that up though. Not sure about the rams.

The important thing with fry is to make sure that all of the water parameters for your new water are the same as their tank water. You don't want to shock the little guys

 

Yay!

 

That is so exciting!

 

Very cool.

 

Awesome!

 

Thanks for the info june! I have been doing water changes daily on that tank, using Prime conditioner, and trying to keep the temp about 80 degrees. Now that I have wigglers, I was so paranoid when doing a water change tonight, I was sucking the water out of the tank at about 1 quart at a time into a clear plastic container, and then doing a check to see that no fry were in the container before I dumped it. I just checked on the tank, and the number of fry that I can see has more than doubled in the last couple of hours, so we'll see how it goes. If all goes well, pics will surely follow

 

You can put a nylon over the siphon to avoid sucking up fry

 

So far so good! I came home for lunch today, and I noticed one or two fry trying to swim around the tank. There are tons of fry hanging on to the leaf, and hanging out along the bottom of the tank. One thing I noticed today is that there are a lot of wigglers on the piece of slate all of a sudden. My water temp is around 79 degrees (not a very good heater) so I'm wondering if the lower water temp is the reason why some eggs are just now hatching? I've been adding Malachite Green each time a do a water change just to be safe, and as eggs are still hatching apparently that was a good idea. As I saw the first couple of fry starting to swim around, I put a tiny bit of hikarI first bites mixed with tank water in the tank today when I got home from work. If things keep going well, it looks like I may have a good number of Angel and Ram fry to take care of.

 

Great news! Congratulations. I just thought I would add my two cents. If you use airline tubing with an airstone at the end, you can suck out the water without worrying about the fry. It takes a while, but its worth it.