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Posted by: gaines	1/26/2007 7:49 AM
Just over a week ago Greg acquired a six inch angelfish which he gave to me to put in my angel/discus tank. I didn't realize that as soon as he got in the tank he'd start mating with my other angel. A day or so later I saw eggs on the filter intake pipe and noticed that the angels had forced all the discus into the corner of the tank. I relocated the discus to my electric blue jack tank and let the angels have the entire 55gal to themselves for hatching/raising fry. They are wigglers at the moment, but I expect them to be free swimming in a day or so. A batch of brine shrimp is currently incubating in preparation. On the other end of the house, the jack dempsey fry look to be doing great. They are already more mobile than the last batch and I'm really looking forward to feeding them some baby brine shrimp.

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Re: Angelfish & Jack Dempsey Fry	By trhaight on 4/2/2007 11:08 AM
Hello I am new and have not been active on the site, but I must noticed the post on the breeding angels. How did it all work out? I had several pairs breeding at our school library tank... first round they ate all the eggs second round they raised them nicely till about 2.5 weeks then ate them all up. The children learned about the circle of life! oh well

Re: Angelfish & Jack Dempsey Fry	By gaines on 4/2/2007 11:41 AM
I believe the same thing has happened with mine. The first few times they would raise the fry until they were free swimming, then the fry would "disappear". I think the trick with breeding these would be to remove the fry with a turkey baster to a separate tank once they are hatched.