Re: please help with my freshwater angelfish fry (4 days old)

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 Monday, January 9, 1995 at 6:41:21 PM UTC-5, Alisa Dean wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Ken Cunningham) says:
> >
> > >discussion regarding angelfish babies...
> >
> >Well, thanks for all the responses... so far, at day 8, about 90% are
> >still up and going.
> >
> >I've been feeding them newly-hatched brine shrimp, as I haven't got a clue
> >where to find micro-worms or artemia, and they seem to eat it, I think...
> >they certainly get orangy bellies.
> >
> >They don't *do* much,though! The baby angels spend most of their time just
> >lying on the glass on the bottom of the tank, usually on their sides. It
> >looks a bit spooky, and I expect to seem them all dead each morning when I
> >come downstairs, but they wiggle on.
> >
> >They occasionally dart up to the top of the tank, then will spend a minute
> >or so barrelling around up there, only to fall back down to the bottom for
> >a sleep, I suppose. Now, they are intermittently resting & hopping all
> >over the bottom of the tank, usually within an inch of the bottom. 
> >
> >They *go crazy* when the brine shrimp go in... I thought at first the
> >brine shimp were tickling the heck out of them, but I suppose they're just
> >eating them...
> >
> >Does all this sound fairly normal to you all?
> Yup! Sounds like you're doing great!
> It is normal to have some mortality with fry - remember, if all of
> them survived in the wild, we would be hip deep in angels...
> Be sure to keep up with the water changes, and syphon off any
> dead brine shrimp or fry.
> Angel fry take almost a week or so before they are "free-swimming."
> The couple times I left them with the parents, I found that the parents
> would dig a pit and move the babies from pit to pit. I think it's to 
> protect them from predators, and to keep the area "clean" from 
> wastes. It took a couple weeks before the babies because free
> swimming. Until then, they just laid in a clump and wiggled.
> As long as the babies are eating (indicated by the orangy bellies),
> then you are well on the way to a good batch.
> Good luck
> Alisa
> dd