At this point you need to start providing food for your angelfish fry. Feed them baby brine shrimp, which you can buy frozen, or a commercial fry food such as First Bites, Fry Starter Formula , or Liquifry several times a day. At about three to six weeks after hatching, the angelfish fry will be large enough to eat your regular fish food. Once the fry are swimming about the tank, you may notice the parents gobbling the fry up. Attentive angelfish parents will collect their wandering fry in their mouth, swim back to the fry corner of the tank, and spit them all out.
Life is dangerous for angelfish fry growing up in a community tank. Most, if not all, will get eaten by bigger fish. When you see the eggs, plant tall plants that will give the fry space to hide in, such as anacharis, Camboda, or hornwort. The fry spend much of their time in the upper half of the tank, so this is the area to provide protection.
When the fry are swimming around feed the tank large and baby brine shrimp several times a day. This will give the other fish in the community tank something live to eat other than the fry. As she approaches him, he nuzzles her belly. Eggs and sperm are released in sudden bursts simultaneously. Their mission is complete and the eggs will hatch from 18 to 30 hours later. Queen angelfish Holacanthus ciliaris pairs bring their bellies together as they rise in the water.
As the male releases sperm, the female sends forth 25, to 75, eggs that will hatch about 15 to 20 hours later. When breeding my angelfish, I really enjoy monitoring all the stages the eggs go through from spawning to hatching. The entire process from spawning to free swimming can unfold in days, depending on tank conditions.
I already touched on the phenomenon of angelfish eating their eggs. However, not everyone is lucky in picking out a good or experienced angelfish pair and may have troubles with them including the fact that their angelfish may eat their eggs. Angelfish may not get parenting right on their first try. Therefore, it may happen that novice angelfish parents may eat their eggs the first time they spawn. Even if angelfish are bred in a separate breeding tank, they may be sensitive to noises, movements in their environment.
Therefore, placing the tank in a quiet place away from movement around the tank can make them feel more at ease. I hope this short intro on how to hatch angelfish eggs will serve as a good guide should you ever need to attempt hatching angelfish eggs yourself.
The fry will then be in a wiggler stage for about 5 more days after they hatch. Do not feed the angelfish fry until after this stage when they are free-swimming.
How can you tell if angelfish eggs are fertilized? Angelfish eggs should feature translucent amber or brownish colors. That would suggest they are fertilized, and probably hatch in the following days. If the eggs turn white, it may indicate they are not at all fertilized. This will end up with rotten eggs, covered by fungi. What do you do with angel fish eggs? Any distractions, sudden movement, or change in tank conditions will put your angelfish fertilized eggs at risk of being eaten by the adults.
Your best bet is to remove the fertilized angelfish eggs and put them in a well-filtered smaller tank. How many times can angelfish lay eggs? How Often do Angelfish Lay Eggs? Depending on the size and strand of an Angelfish, an Angelfish can lay anywhere between eggs in just a single laying.
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