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I am in Millet... your in Wetaskiwin guess i should have look at this post before pm ing

I will send you a message before the next time i make a trip to the city and may stop by. matt

so to small to travel lol want to trade for some angles for plecos:) we have a angle production line here. my pair have spawned twice in the last week so there are a few free swimming and about 100 wigglers. and in another tank 30 4 month olds and in the big tank 12 year olds ( no no not 12 year olds "12" that are a year old) lol so many sizes to choose from if you want to see what they look like, i took a batch of 60 5 month old ones to golds a couple weeks ago. later matt

so you have 50 fry? how old now? matt

yea hurry up and make them grow! or should i just get some eggs off you.. LOL

how is the spawn doing? I am looking to buy some at some point, I am in line to get some:) matt

The box is located under the part where you add attachments. It should be under "post options" and say "Enable email notification of replies". Check that box. ok i see it there now:) thanks matt

hmm i got a notice about this the reply in this thread and while i post this reply I am looking for what you are saying and i dont see it.. o well as long as it works i will watch closer next time i post:) matt

i checked in my settings and i think i have it set right but i do not get email notification when someone posts in a thread i started or in a thread that i have replied to. what have i missed? matt

i have the wardley stuff but they seem to go for the first bits much better and go mad for the fresh shrimp. hope to have the 50 gal tank ready for just them by the end of the week. thought has crossed my mind to start up another 50gal tank for just the parents. lol this is getting out of hand. its like being a kid again but with the money to do the stupid things my parents would have said no to. I think i need someone to say no. not sure if its a good thing but my wife is more into it than i am . matt

everything is going well so far. the fry are starting to look like angels and growing faster than ever. so far no more losses at all still over 100 going strong. there are only 3 now that are still quite small but they seem to be getting bigger as well. they are getting live shrimp and first bits and they eat up like mad. have to keep on top of water, these little things sure put through the food! thanks for in the input:) later matt

would you be able to tell me how to get this thing hosted so people can download it!! I could host it if the file isnt to big. matt

Hi Matt I don't want to have to re-scape the tank I want to use, so I thought I'd use the 'egg crate' and raise it off the bottom an inch or so. That way the eggs will fall through and the big fish won't be able to get at them. Hopefully, that would save the eggs till I get home and take the big fish out. Thankx for answering. Rick I am sure that would work as long as they put the eggs into it i guess:) I am guessing that you are going to move the eggs to a new home at some point. matt

not sure if i would call myself a seasoned fish breeder or not:) lol more of a master of fluke. matt

No body knows???? I am no expert but i think the idea is to have gravel that is quite large, pea size or a little larger then as the eggs are dropped they fall into the gravel where the other fish cant get them. if you have a pair the male should be there at the time the eggs are dropped and he should be doing his job. now the eggs might be safe in the gravel until you go to clean the gravel, or till they hatch and swim up and out into the mouths of the other fish in the tank.. not sure if i am much help I have no experience with spawning tiger barbs at all, i do have about 8 of these mad little racers in my 80 gal tank:) later matt

For my 2nd post I thought I would share what I am dealing with. Seems I have stumbled on the right conditions for angels to spawn. I have a pair of marble angels which started out quite small when I got them 5 months ago. Since then they have grown from about 2.5 inches to 4" for her and over 5 " for him. The first spawn resulted in about 150 wigglers, following the advice from a poor source we moved them to a separate tank away from the parents, bad move, didn't turn out well at all about 4 weeks later a larger spawn took place, kind of thought something was up when they started to push over plants and ornaments in the tank looking for a good place to lay eggs. sure enough the next day I got to watch as about 500 eggs were placed on the ss thermometer. Following better advice this batch was to stay with the parents, tank mates were moved out just in time, seems angel fry makes great food even for the smallest fish, guessing 50% were lost. its been about 3 weeks since free swimming took place and the fry are starting to make large gains in size some are over half an inch now, during this time about another 50% were lost. So I have just over 100 angel fry which are doing very well it seems. I am sure if I were to try harder the losses could be lowered greatly, but I have one question. What am I to do with all these fish if I get them to a good size? I just setup a 55 gal tank for this batch to move into once they get a little bigger but even this size will be to small for 100+ fish! Also any tips in caring for fry could be posted in this thread I am always open to input I am a little worried about moving them to the new tank, thinking of moving the parents to the new tank, they seem to be getting quite stressed and leaving the fry to get bigger for another 3 or 4 weeks in the small breeding tank.30gal OK enough for now later Matt

just checking out this board in hopes to learn new things. also My angel fish just spawned and so far over 100 are starting to get larger, not sure how many to expect to survive but so far they are doing well, and have grown to almost 3/4 " I have 4 tanks on the go at the moment 80gal 55gal 30gal 9gal later matt