The Plant Tank

Friday, August 11, 2006

New batch of angelfish wrigglers

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  • Dosing: 10 mL Flourish, 15 mL Excel (same as yesterday)
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Notes:
The latest batch of angelfish eggs have sprouted wiggling tails today after about 48 hours. I decided to try to raise another batch to see if I can successfully raise a greater quantity of fry, now that I have a better breeding cage.

I sucked them off the leaf with a baster and put them into a floating breeding cage. The parent angelfish were defending their eggs against the "attacking" baster, furiously biting the baster. I finally managed to gather most of the wriggling eggs into the cage, at least 50:



Here's a closeup of the wrigglers:


The four fry from the original batch are doing well and are starting to take on the characteristic appearance of angelfish. They are voracious eaters, constantly nosing around for any leftover brine shrimp. For some reason, over the past couple days, the brine shrimp have not been hatching at high percentages. There have been a lot of unhatched eggs. The temperature hasn't been noticeably cooler, the only difference has been to use a different brand of aquarium salt.

1 Comments:

  • I was very impressed with your fry.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:03 PM  

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