Archive for November, 2010

Angelfish Eggs Day 6

Today is the first day we have signs of attempted swimming! Most of the little guys are clumped together on the bottom of the vase, resulting in regular addition aggitation by me, just to ensure everything is well! Every now and again the odd little guy will go on a mad dash swim, before re-attaching [...]

Angelfish Eggs Day 5

The eyes have now developed from black dots to lovely silver eyes with black centres (images to follow).  Still no free swimmers though… Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

Angelfish Eggs Day 4

The little guys now have eyes! Currently, they are just little black dots but these will change in no time.  // Click here to open the gallery. Powered by Cincopa Media Platform for your website and Cincopa MediaSend for file transfer. There are still no free swimmers but it’s still a bit early anyway…this is [...]

Angelfish Eggs Day 3

From my personal point of view, I find that today is the most siginificant and, frankly, exciting day for a newbie egg rearer.  Today is the first day movement can be seen from the eggs! The first signs of anything come in the form of a very thin tail, which will start to wiggle frantically.  [...]

Angelfish Eggs Day 1

As you’ve rathered, I’ve decided to rescue some eggs from my breeding pair again.  I was hoping to use my last blog as a guide for timescales but it’s vanished so these posts shall be my definitive guide!   These eggs were retrieved and placed inside a handy vase, inside my 3ft tank.  All that’s needed [...]

Angelfish Eggs – The Preparation

I currently own a breeding pair of angels, and have decided that the next time that they lay eggs, I will remove and raise them.  Why remove them from their parents? Well my pair have a history of eating their eggs, even when alone with them…currently they are in my community tank, so it’s rather [...]