When Should I Move Angel Eggs.

My angels have been frequently laying eggs inside my 75 gallon community. After about 3-4 days they usually eat the eggs or they turn white from either infertilization or fungusing over. They laid eggs again this morning and I want to try and remove them to care for them myself. However they have laid on the intake to my canister filter, so how I am going to detach them and get them into a specimen container is beyond me. How long should I wait to remove them and any advice on how to remove them.

 

I don't think it is possible to remove those eggs without damaging them. If you want to be able to remove them, give the angels lots of other options for laying so maybe they avoid the intake tube. Tall pieces of slate, big sword leaves (even if hey are fake)

I am surprised they would still be eggs on day 3-4. Mine always hatch at 48 hours. Are you sure they aren't hatching before being eaten?

The best time to remove them is a day or two after hatching. While they are wigglers but not yet free swimmers. Or else removing them at the egg stage by removing the item they are laid on. But I just don't think you can remove them by scraping them off or anything.

Personally, I don't step in until the parents get them hatched for me. And sometimes it takes a dozen tries before they succeed, sometimes it only takes one try. Its very random. But I do have a pair that has eaten their eggs 4 times in a row. And I really want their babies. So I plan to remove their eggs next time. They always lay on big anubias leaves. So I'd have to cut off a leaf or remove the whole plant.

 

That's what I was afraid of. I've tried offering them other areas to lay on, just not slate yet. Theyve ignored the amazon swords in favor of intake pipes.
I'm fairly positive they aren't hatching, I actually visually watched one eat the eggs (no she did not move them somewhere else). I also have a small suspicion it is two females throwing the eggs even though there is a third angel that I presume is a male in the tank.
With my filtration and current inhabitants of the tank I don't think wigglers would survive in the tank if they hatched.

 

That's what I was afraid of. I've tried offering them other areas to lay on, just not slate yet. Theyve ignored the amazon swords in favor of intake pipes.
I'm fairly positive they aren't hatching, I actually visually watched one eat the eggs (no she did not move them somewhere else). I also have a small suspicion it is two females throwing the eggs even though there is a third angel that I presume is a male in the tank.
With my filtration and current inhabitants of the tank I don't think wigglers would survive in the tank if they hatched.

Wigglers can usually survive in a community tank because when they are wigglers they are still in one safe spot in one clump being watched by their parents. Its when they start breaking free and trying to swim away that they are in the most danger. This is why I like to suck them up when they have hatched, but are still being kept corralled by their parents.

By day four they should definitely be hatched. So if they are sitting there for up to 4 days without hatching, then they must not be fertile.

Can you post pics of their breeding tubes? I could help you sex them that way. Have you seen them spawn?

 

I have not caught the two in the act of spawning. It seems they like to lay eggs in the wee hours of the morning when lights are off.
After work I can try to get a picture of there tubes if they allow it.