Look what I found today!!!

[kc2005ptgt]

Maybe should be in off topic, but oh well, move it needs to be done

Story:

For five years I have been raising fish, in particular Angelfish (freshwater, not the saltwater ones) and have tried over and over to get a pair and hope they spawn. Well, after several attempts over the years, when I moved in to my apartment back in March of 06, I bought 6 baby angels, born from a local breeder I know, and they were barely the size of a dime (about a month old)... so, 14 months later, they have grown up and they have gotten really big, and look very pretty...

here is their tank, a 75 gallon South American Setup (5 Angels, 6 rummynose, 6 marble hatchets, 6 cardinal tetras, 8 corydora catfish, 1 ancistrus/pleco, 2 blue rams, 1 bolivian ram, 1 freshwater fiddler crab):


Tank looks different now though, I should get a new pic!

Today, while feeding them after work, I noticed something in the corner of the tank....



EGGS!!!
Who knows if they will survive, but they look healthy and there are a lot fo them for the angels being young and their first time!!! SSOOOO here is mama and papa:

^^^Thats Mom....


Mom and pops, kinda out of camera, but I will try to get better pics later Hard to do

I am sooooo totally stoked!! Even if they do not survive, I now know who the male and female is, so I can put them in a 10 GAL tank with nothing on the bottom and raise them right

[MyNeonSaysHi]

And I thought I was a nerd.

J/p man, sweet fish! I always wanted a fish tank as a kid.

[Cbussilver01es]

Andrew is beaming like a proud father! lol

[kc2005ptgt]

yeah I am sort of a geek

"First in my class here at M.I.T.
Got skills, I'm a Champion of DND
MC Escher that's my favorite MC
Keep your 40
I'll just have an Earl Grey tea"

That's me...

This morning they were all gone Which does not suprisae me, but either way, now I have a pair, and I am going to be moving them this week to a 10 GAL tank with nothing in it and see if they will breed again

[MyNeonSaysHi]

Sow here did they go? Something eat them I am guessing?

[kc2005ptgt]

I assume the parents ate them I have read a LOT of books on breeding, and in a community tank like mines, new parents will eat the eggs when overwhelmed with a lot of "predators". It was also very possibly that the ancistrus (pleco) ate them...

this is what mine looks like


So, whatever... not a huge deal, they will breed again, hopefully, after I move em. Much stuff I have read has also stated that some people claim they never breed again after being moved, but that could be due to water quality as well.

[Mr Josh Zombie]

i LOVE saltwater. My father used to have a HUGEEEE 300 gallon tank, along with a few smaller ones

[Cbussilver01es]

"First in my class here at M.I.T.
Got skills, I'm a Champion of DND
MC Escher that's my favorite MC
Keep your 40
I'll just have an Earl Grey tea"

^

lol thats kinda crazy about the eggs being gone, kind of reminds me of the fish that I had, one day there babies swimming in the tank, the next day they were nowhere to be found

[kc2005ptgt]

I use to breed kribensis, had them all alone in a 20 gallon planted tank with tons of hiding space and what not... they would have over 100 babies and at one time as much as 200 I finally had to do something about all the fish I couldnt sell, so the babies became food for the oscar Ah well, Darwin pwns. Nothing is neater than seeing a momma fish leading her babies around the tank picking at food and keeping a close eye on things while papa scounted the aquarium front and back side to side looking for predators to chase away

[JRM]

How many pets do you have?

[ek2588]

reminds me when i had my gold fish. had those suckas for 3 yrs b4 my lil bro killed em. Lets just say those fish dont like liquid soap...damn man kinda makes me want to go buy some pet fish lol