Archive for December, 2010
Angelfish Fry Day 38
The fry are now growing at an impressive rate. I have started to wean them onto decapsulated brine shrimp eggs, which turned out to be much easier than the last time I raised fry. I couple of days of 50-50 feeding and they’ve figured out that the still stuff was edible too! Now I’m feeding [...]
Angelfish Fry Day 31
Firstly, apologies for the delay in updating the blog! There isn’t too much new information regarding the fry, other than they now look like true angelfish. Furthermore, due to their continued diet of baby brine shrimp they have a lovely pink/red hue to their fins. I’ll get some photos and video on here ASAP. It’s [...]
Angelfish Fry Day 19
The fry are really starting to look like angelfish now! Take a look and let me know what you think! // Click here to open the gallery. As you may be able to see from the video, I have added some bogwood to the tank, to give the fry something to pick at, as last [...]
Angelfish Fry Day 17
Not too much new exciting news, other than the fry and are starting to acquire the slow-moving grace that is commonly associated with angelfish. Their colours are also starting to become even more apparent. I will try and get some photos tomorrow, they’re a bit easier to take now that the subjects have calmed down a [...]
Angelfish Fry Day 15
No more issues today so the ‘lemmings’ stage seems to have passed. Today I noticed that the fry are beginning to grow ventral fins! To me, this is the first stage where they begin to resemble true angelfish. After this step it’s simply a case of getting them to grow in size before selling them. [...]
Angelfish Fry Day 14 – The Lemmings Strike!
My lemmings prediction came true today…When it came to tank maintenance, I found 4 fry had managed to jam themselves against the sponge and have died. Like I said yesterday if there’s any way these lil guys can hurt themselves they will. As it happens, the four that died were small, so perhaps they were [...]
Angelfish Fry Day 13 – The Big Release!
Today is an important day in the lives of the fry. Today is their first taste of ‘freedom’! I’ve noticed over the last couple of days that they were becoming a bit cramped in their vase so the time had come to transport them into their grow-out tank. // Click here to open the gallery. [...]
Angelfish Fry Day 12
The fry are really starting to grow now, with little fish shapes appearing… They now all have very distant dorsal and anal fins, with the next stage of their development being their transformation into the deep angelfish shape we all know and love. At this stage, however, they still look more like torpedoes, each with [...]
