My Koi Angelfish and Marble Angelfish are breeding for the first time! What do I do with the eggs?

Question

My Koi Angelfish and Marble Angelfish are breeding for the first time! What do I do with the eggs?

Answer 1

leave the eggs alone until they hatch. Then get a parent trap. Once they hatch, the parents will eat them if you don't do this. Make sure though that the screen on the trap is very tiny so the fish cant get through or else the parents will find a way to get through. Since this is the first time, its highly unlikely that they will survive but the fish will keep doing it. Oh and fish don't "watch over" their babies. they aren't like humans and see their young as more of a tasty treat, it's like live brine shrimp.

Answer 2

With angels you should keep the eggs with the parents. They will tend to the eggs and the fry will feed off of mucus produced by the parents after they hatch. Angels wont eat their babies. If you have a community tank, and have a separate tank you can use, set it up quickly and add some of the water and stones from the established tank to cycle it quickly. Once it is ready move the parents and the eggs to the new tank. If you cant do this and have a community tank, then some of the fry may get eaten, but the parents will protects them. The eggs should only take a few days to hatch. Good Luck!

Answer 3

leave them, you can't hatch eggs by just putting them in the trap. either the angels have to take care of them or you need an airstone to make some circulation around the eggs, not airbubbles on the eggs, just nearby to cause water flow. If you don't already have a brine shrimp hatcher going or some other appropriate food for fry, then you won't be able to keep them alive.

note: angels often eat the first couple batches and it's ok, because the first few aren't usually healthy.

Answer 4

im would leave only the parents there. It is normal for the parents to eat the eggs from their first spawning, and if this happens the female will usually deposit eggs again after just a few weeks. So if there is some hiding places in the tank the fry can survive i would see how it would go naturally before removing any the next time they spawn cause they ca stop spawning

Answer 5

you leave the eggs alone.............. the angels will do the parenting, but usually the first time they breed the eggs wont hatch it is very difficult to hatch and raise baby angelfish, i have tried with many pairs in excellent conditions, but i guess you were lucky.......... i never got a single fry.........

Answer 6

Leave the eggs alone. Since it's their first time they may not get it right, but the second or third time their usually isn't an issue. For the most part angels are good parents, and separating them from their eggs will actually stress them out. Not to mention moving the eggs can cause many to die and putting fry into a breeding net will stress the fry out.