Angelfish egg are laid on a vertical surface. The parents fan the eggs to provide the eggs with a necessary oxygen and to remove fungus that may develops on the eggs. Angelfish eggs are fragile and need to be monitor while the eggs are developing.
If the eggs develops white spots, this is a sign of fungus. In this case, you must remove the fungus covered eggs to prevent the spread of the fungus to the healthy angelfish eggs. Maintaining a warm temperature for the eggs is critical in the development of the angelfish.
How to Care for Angelfish Eggs and Fry
If the temperature of the tank is too low, the development of the angelfish will stalls. However, if the temperature is more high, the angelfish will develop deformities. Angelfish eggs will eventualy hatch to became wrigglers.
Wrigglers has yolk sacs that provide nutrition to the wrigglers. The wrigglers do not swim when they are wrigglers. Instead, they remain attached to the tank’s surface and absorb the nutrition from the yolk sacs.
After five days, the angelfish fry will detach from the tank’s surface and begin to swimming around the tank. At this stage, there yolk sacs are gone and they will need to be fed. Provide them small live foods four or five times per day.
Make sure that the size of the food match the angelfish fry mouth size to avoid harming the fish. Do not overfeed the angelfish fry as this will cause ammonia spike in the water. As angelfish fry grow, their shape and color changes.
At two weeks of age, they start to turn a silver color. At six weeks of age, they will begin to display dark bar on their body. As they grow, increase the size of the food that you feed them.
Start with single celled cultures and advance to microworms and baby brine shrimp. Feeding live food encourage angelfish fry to exhibit hunting behavior in their tank. At three months of age, they will reach adult proportion and can begin to be fed crushed flakes.
Angelfish fry requires specific water parameters for there survival. Angelfish fry prefer soft water that is slightly acidic and must contain zero ammonia. Use a sponge filter to avoid suck in the fry.
Perform daily partial water change to keep the water in the tank pristine. If the angelfish fry become lethargic or display clamped fin, the water quality in the tank is poorly and must be corrected immediately. Angelfish fry may exhibit competitive behavior towards each other.
Bullying behavior from the larger fry to the smaller fry may occur in the tank. In this case, grade the fry into different group to ensure that the larger fry does not continues to bully the smaller fry. The survival rate of angelfish fry can range from thirty to seventy percent when properly taken care of.
Follow the feeding stage for fry and maintain the water quality and the angelfish fry will grow into adult angelfish.
