Angels Not Eating Their Eggs!

[rcalzadilla]

Have a 125gal planted tank. A pair of angelfish have laid a bunch of eggs (may 300 ?) and have not eaten them!
The parent pair have aggressively kept away all other tank residents.
Now there are about 30-50 eggs left with little wiggling tails, eyes a little sacks.
That not the end of it. Now this last bunch has been transferred, by taking them in their mouth and sticking them to a Vallisneria leaf!

Since the eggs developed tails they were constantly falling off the glass-cleaning- magnet, where they were first laid, and quickly the father (or mother) takes each in their mouth and spits it back unto the surface. Sometimes repeating this until they stick .
At first I thought they were eating them.

I guess they are going to die for lack of something to feed on.

Anybody with similar?

 

[Gerryd]

It is normal behaviour for the parents to move their young from place to place until they are free swimming. They will then guard the young for a period of time.

You need to raise some baby brine shrimp or something as a first food or they will indeed starve.

Parents may be more likely to eat after they become free swimming.

You may want to transfer them to a separate tank with no parents or other fish to raise them.

Many sources for angel breeding out there.....Young will grow fast........

Library or book store, or the web is a good place to start.

Congrats and good luck.