Here we go BAP Pterophyllum scalare! The parents, only one week later, are spawning again already at the end of this video. Look for more updates this month, as we need to get 10 of these past the 30-day goal for BAP points. We’re already beginning to renegotiate our tank stocking plans to dedicate TONS of room for angelfish grow out.
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We've been fortunate with this batch. The parents were spawning again by the end of this video (Sunday), but they ate their eggs within 48 hrs. Each morning, in the 1/2 gal. specimen container, there are a few dead fry. But it is not beyond the range of what seems normal. They are fall now munching on brine shrimp. We have to do at least 16-32 oz. water change each day to keep the water clean.
Woo hoo! I never managed to catch my angelfish fry and sequester them in a safe place before one or both parents went into an infanticidal rage. Once I put a net breeder in the tank, moved a bunch of 3 day old fry into it, and then went to find a small tank to set up to raise the fry. The parents immediately started sucking the fry through the net breeder and maimed all the ones they didn't suck all the way through to eat. It was so upsetting that I gave the breeding colony to John Mangan. Angelfish: beautiful and graceful, and vicious and nasty. No more cichlids at my house except for the peaceful Biotodoma cupidos.