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    Angelfish fry

    in Fish Breeding

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     I have never had a pair of angels that raised the fry....until now. So couple questions, How long do you leave the fry with the parents and what's a good way to feed the fry while with the parents. Please forgive the plastic plants...it was a quick setup.

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    sexing dwarf gourami

    in Fish Breeding

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     I am wanting to set up a dwarf gourami tank and try breeding them. Resources say males have pointy dorsal fins and females have rounded. Looking at the ones I find for sale at the pet stores, they are labeled " Male Gourami " however all the fish in the tanks have rounded dorsal fins AND full color, making me wonder if they were all enhanced with male hormones. How do I pick males and females...Or should I get several and let nature take over ???

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    So I have this angelfish.........

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    I picked up a juvi  zebra angel , it has really nice bars. In its quarantine tank it wasnt taking food (flake). after two treatments of fritz expel p, it will eagerly take feeder guppy fry, frozen blood worms, frozen shrimp but will not touch flake ( tetra ). Put it in 3 different tanks with different groups of fish and the same happens, eats anything but flake. How do I get it to take flake ??

    Angelfish can't eat

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    On 9/29/2022 at 6:19 PM, wuht said:

    Thanks everyone, hoping it works. Don't have high hopes for the one that hasn't eaten in 2 weeks but the other is just starting to show symptoms and will hopefully recover.

    Quarantine them if you can while treating. One of mine went 5 weeks without taking a bite ! its now one of the biggest eaters in the tank and growing like crazy !

    Angelfish can't eat

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    Recently went through what your describing and tried EVERYTHING... Colu was right on, I think it was internal parasite in my case. Fritz Expel P turned it around in my tank. The sooner the treatment the better IMHO.

    Aeneus cory

    in Fish Breeding

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    My Aeneus cory have been spawning all week, so I have several floating hatch tanks going. Today they spawned all over one of the floating tanks. If I could train them to spawn INSIDE the floating tanks my job would be soooo much more easy !!!20220910_083033.jpg.4b58c650df1d5188fcf93b3a7ac4fc45.jpg

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    Do we have to put HOB Filter on the back?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Rusty Sprinkler

    Just my 2 cents...... I use the 3/4 to 1 inch thick pink foam board from the home centers for my tops ( fish room ) holds in heat, easy to cut out for filters, cords, air line etc. cut opening for whatever size glass you have, let in light and slide to the side for feeding or maintenance, put your HOB where ever.

    Sick angelfish

    in Diseases

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    Update to update ... I treated the two remaining angels with fritz expel per instructions, both regained eating and adding size in their quarantine tanks, however neither one seemed happy in quarantine. after 2 weeks of eating I moved them to the main angel tank and they both are thriving ! Looking back I should have started the fritz much earlier, I will know better if there is a next time ! THANK YOU !

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    Coffee with Teejay

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    On 8/4/2022 at 8:42 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

    I try to have more females also.  I've heard others recommending the opposite, so it seems like both works well enough.
     

     In my case I noticed the spawning female picks a male to spawn with, the males that were not spawning ate the most eggs..maybe they felt left out LOL, So I figured 2 males offered a choice for the female but less hungry males with nothing to do but eat eggs. Also this is with established breeding groups with selected males and females.

     

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    Coffee with Teejay

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    Hoping Im not butting in, but sounds like your trying to spawn your paleatus ???? Ive had best luck keeping water temp cooler than 75 degrees, 72-74 degrees for paleatus. Also mine never laid large bunches of eggs at a time, 7 or 8 here and there at a time. I keep 4 females and 2 males per breeding group. The biggest challenge for me is plaeatus are notorious egg eaters ! My groups will eat eggs as fast as the female is laying them ! So its possible they are spawning and eating eggs during lights off leaving you never to see an egg. Something you can try is cool water change 4 degrees lower than tank temp., then 1/2 hr before lights out feed them heavy frozen blood worms or frozen brine shrimp enough for them to feed during the night, when your lights come on in the morning they should spawn. be ready to collect the eggs as they lay them. I found it very hard to get eggs with paleatus its a timing thing. Aneaus however are much more easy and lay hundreds of eggs at a time. Good luck with your venture !

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    Corydora Difficulty

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    I agree with dont chase numbers, cory are pretty adaptable to water conditions. I think 70-72 degrees would be a good range for these cory's, 75 degrees and up I think is hard on them...any chance your heater is sticking on and spiking the temp ??? Also a good point is acclamation, I like to use a slow drip into the ice cream bucket method, but since yours are already in their tank you will have to work from there. So I would suggest lower temp. and weekly if not bi-weekly water changes. Cant really tell from your pictures if the barbells are missing or just laying very flat. Missing barbells can indicate a  water condition or sharp edge substrate but either way IF there missing look for infection. Hope this helps some,

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    Paleatus Cory breeding.

    in Fish Breeding

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    So a 10 gallon will hold 6 paleatus, good filtration and weekly water changes would be great. Cory do better with a sand substrate, Im sure they will love all the plants ! Cory will devour eggs and fry, I see them actually hunt the fry so survival rate is low in a community tank. Mostly they lay eggs on the glass but sometimes "hide" the eggs in the plants. If you want to try getting some fry....You can trigger breeding with live food and cool water changes. Ive had the best success by gathering the eggs, putting them in a floating bowl in the parent tank with a few bubbles from airline. Feed micro worms or live brine shrimp after 3rd day, daily water changes in the bowl. In about 3 or 4 weeks they can go in a grow out tank. Keep the eggs you want to raise ( I get about 40 % to release into grow out tank ) let the breeding group take care of the eggs you dont want.

    Hope there was some help here....

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    Sick angelfish

    in Diseases

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    On 7/24/2022 at 4:42 PM, Colu said:

    As general cure  worked  I would treat with Fritz Expel p I would treat both remaining fish even no the other one has improved and you could try soaking his food in garlic guard to help simulate his appetite

    Thanks for your reply. I've never had this problem with any of the fish I've ever kept....but shows up in the angels only, so now Im obsessed with figuring it out LOL. I used the general cure because I could get it LFS, fritz I have to order, since I learned general cure treats certain parasites and fritz treats the others ?????? So the fritz at this point would make sure I treated ALL parasites ???? would the treatment plan be the same for the angel that is eating as well as the angel that is not eating ???

    Sick angelfish

    in Diseases

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    So just an update.... I moved the 3 sick angels to a quarantine tank at the time of original post. Since then after 3 rounds of general cure per instructions, the larger of the 3 ( about 50 cent piece size ) has recovered and is eating and gaining size nicely, I moved him/her to a twenty gallon tall by itself. The smallest of the 3 died yesterday never took another bite of food. The middle one ( quarter size ) started pecking at micro worms 2 days ago and will inhale fresh guppy fry but refuses to eat all other offered foods ( I only had 2 guppy fry at the time ). This fish is in the original quarantine tank by itself, I did add a little group of guppies... comments /thoughts ?????

    Thanks !

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