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K here I'm going to keep a running blog on my baby angels that I've got in my photo section. (read from bottom up)

4/14/08 - New video up of my newest fry! Whoot! Things are nuts all of a sudden! Here I've had nothing for so long, then suddenly one of the pair decide to spawn. I left the fry with them to see if they'd parent raise, lost the whole batch. they spawned again, mom ate them before I could get them out.  Then again, these I got out and have a page for. They spawned again and I've got a new page up for those fry. Then another pair spawned, this is a new pair, so I left to see if they'd raise. She ate them about 3 days after they were laid. So next time they'll be pulled. Then the first pair spawned again just this evening! I'll set up a new 5g for them and pull tomorrow. It's a crazy problem (but good!) to have:)  I've also got a new what I hope is a pair of black veil tails. not sure if they are super veils or not. and there is a stripe, so I'm not sure of the genes yet, but will post when I find out. I've got a new baby marble veil that's in with my adults and doing great. Then a new batch of sunsets arrived by mail and are in a 55g grow out. So all in all, life is good here in fishville!

2/11/08 - Been a bit, not much going on. We're going through first a dry spell with the adults, no eggs whatso ever. Then we had a bit of weird fungus attack one baby (the german blue blusher) and one of the adults. Now that's all past, everyone's doing fine, so I'm planning another water change tomorrow and have to get more bloodworm, hopefully that'll get things moving again:)  I'll also *finally* be getting 10 baby Turquoise angels! WHOOT!!! I can't wait!  They will have their own page since this is the gene that I want to specialize in:)

12/6/07 - Okay, the new blogs that are "fry specific" will be on their pages. Here I will talk about general tank stuff with my angels that are not pairing off yet.  That being said, I finally after over a month was able to move the angel that was so sick into the big tank last night! He's completely cured which I'm amazed as I didn't have much hope for him. His eye is better. I still think he's blind in the other, but I watched him this morning when I fed everyone and he was getting food with no problem. The angel that he was with when I first got them was totally mean to him from the moment I put him in, but this morning it appears that everyone is getting along. Goodness I can't wait to set up our 75g!  It'll be nice to move them all into there. Then this 55g that they are in now, I'm going to separate into 2 tanks and keep 2 separate pairs in there to raise their fry.

12/3/07 - Well the wigglers from the last comment also didn't make it. I think that there was too much bacteria in the bottom of the tank they were in and I think that a bit of the microworm culture got in there and added to it. I've just changed out the culture to a nice new oatmeal and yeast one, so now it's not like I need a facemask to open it. Hopefully in the next day or so we'll have new worms.  The batch of eggs from the orange and black marble that laid on the filter are now freeswimming in the 5g. They are eating fine the froz bbs (while the new ones are hatching) and the microworms. It's cool because these I can already see that there will be different colors. My first batch that are around quarter size are all one type and one coloration. These I think will be a big mix of orange and black. I'm looking forward to seeing them grow up.  Downstairs in the 30g the koi m and gold f laid a huge number of eggs. They are hatched and wrigglers now and m&d seem to be doing very well. the m watched the babies with his mouth about a centimeter away from them all the time while the f watches us outside the tank. If anyone gets too close to the tank, she rushes us and splashes. She's quite aggressively protective which I'm glad about. I'm going to leave that set in with m&d and see what happens. They should be ready in the next 3 days for feeding.

I'm going to work on changing things around here a bit so we've got different pages on what each batch of fry are doing. :) dumb I know, but it's more for me to keep track of things here:)

11/23/07 - Okay, a bit going on that I haven't blogged yet, so here we go.  First, I only saved about 20 of the fry from the below 11/11 comments. They are in a 5 gallon now eating bbs and microworms. So I put the koi dad back in the 30 with the golden that spawned before without a mate.  They've laid a nice set of eggs on the cleaning magnite so I moved them into a 2 gallon to hatch. They've since hatched and are in the 5 gallon as wigglers with the other slighty larger free swimming fry from the last batch.  There's a huge number in there, so once they are free swimming, I'm going to move the...oh yeah, I ordered 5 German Blue Blushers off ebay. They are in a 10 gallon right now. I'm going to move them into the 55g with the rest of the babies that are their size. Then the free swimming fry will go into the 10. *gasp weeze* Then!!! I've moved the new golden into the community 55g where as of today she's paired off with one of my black marbles (nice to know I've got more than one male!) and they've laid a nice set of eggs....once again on the filter tube! What is it with these fish?!?  I've even got real slate in there for them now, but noooo, only the filter tubes will do for this batch! lol  But they are in with all the others, so getting highly stessed each time another comes by, so I'm re-setting up the little 2 gallon right now to move the eggs into till they hatch. Then they'll go into the 5 gallon.  So yeah, lots going on here!!!  Luckily the older babies I've got some are and the rest getting to quarter size and I've got a pet store in Rock Hill that wants them once they are of that size.

11/11/07 - Goodness, not sure what's up with mom this time around, but she keeps trying to sneak around the male and goes after the eggs! in a not nice way either!!!  There's less than half the eggs that were there before. So I took her out just now and put her back in my big tank.  Freaky fish!  Actually kind of made me mad that she was doing that. Just being mean!  Oh and the eggs have hatched, they are officially wigglers now. I'll wait one more day then start my bbs hatcheries and get them going.  I haven't ordered that feeder yet, but hopefully will asap.

The new angels are still in the 10 med tank. The golden is doing just fine, won't be much longer and she/he'll be moved in with the others.  The dark one though, not doing so well. The one eye is flat and the other still even with the meds has fungus covering it. So it's hard for him to find food. He kind of swims so the fungus eye is downward. I'm thinking he's blind in the other eye.   I'm going to soon take out the golden and do a big water change and heavy meds with the other to see if we can knock this out. I'm not having high hopes for him:(

11/9/07 - Alrighty then! I've cleared out the 30 with my breeders of gravel. So there's no gravel but for a clay pot with gravel and live plants. (no more of this plastic nonsense...lol) I actually love the way it looks and may go gravel-less in all my tanks. for sure makes it easier to keep clean!

Now this morning I'm finding that I may have been mistaken in the sex of my breeders. The Chocolate has the breeding tube hanging out and it's much larger than what I'm assuming is the tube of the koi. So Chocolate is mom...lol. They are very busy cleaning off 3 different areas, very very busy!  We may have eggs by tonight. I'm so hoping to catch them spawning to put it on youtube. Camera's ready, let's just see if I can catch it:) They are cleaning the side of the pot, a rock that's propped up in the middle of the tank and of course......the filter tube. lol I'll turn off the filter once they lay eggs. I've got 2 corner sponge filters in there now.  Do you know how hard it is to find those things? I went to 2 pet stores and they had no clue what I was talking about! (we're talking the big chain stores too! LOL)  Anyway, we'll see what happens!  I'm excited:) I also won off ebay a bag of the almond indian leaves. I'm going to use them mostly for the bettas, but in reading find they are good in all tanks, so that'll be fun:) Then too I found an auto feeder/hatchery for baby brine shrimp that I'm going to order. Being that I only have one breeder tank, this won't be too bad and help with the feedings. I'll still give the shrimp as they hatch in my main hatcheries, but this'll suppliment so there'll never be a hungry baby:)

This evening they started to lay the eggs. I did get them spawning! WHOOT!  There's a least 300 eggs now that they are done.

11/3/07 - I was just given 2 adult angels (Thank you Sherry!!!) One is a beautiful Golden with I think a bit of pearl scale on the side. and the other is a silver stripped with wild genes. I'm not that good at the genetics part of all of this yet, so I may be wrong. I'll add pictures up soon. They've been through enough today without me sticking my camera in their faces:)  Their set up in a quarentine tank for a bit with some meds. So they will be up and ready to go soon! I'm so excited about them! they are both awesome fish!!! *jumping up and down*

10/30/07 - Well the new babies aren't doing so well. I'm to blame. With the gravel in there and being that they are downstairs and not by me all the time I haven't been doing what I should.  I guess I thought the parents would do more, which was dumb of me.  I'm going to be taking out the gravel from the tank and getting a sponge filter for it as well.  Hopefully next time it'll be better:(

10/29/07 - I've got a new Angel now, will get pics up soon:) I'm guessing he's a he. He's a wild striped one (not sure the "official" name).  I traded with my parents for one of their adults for a few of my babies for their big tank.  Then too I traded with a local pet store 25 of my biggest babies for a good $30 worth of frozen fish food (whoot!). And it was awesome, as I was there giving the store the fish, a lady asked me about them and ended up buying 3 of them on the spot.  I was darn excited!

New babies are doing okay, but because there's gravel in the tank they are in, It's hard to see what's going on. I'm thinking if any make it, I'll move them to a small tank for a bit and tank the 30 they are in and get rid of the gravel to make it easier to feed and keep my eye on.

10/28/07 - New babies are free swimming totally now and M&D have given up the idea of trying to keep them in one place. Now comes the fun part of keeping them fed. Problem is there's gravel at the bottom of this tank. grrr (Not sure why I didn't think of this sooner!) So the live brine shrimp goes down under before the babies can get enough to fill them up.  Any ideas anyone???  I can try scooping out the gravel, but I'm afraid that'll kill the babies and drive M&D nuts.

On the 26th my golden (see adults pics) laid a bunch of eggs in the community tank. But apparently there's no male yet interested as they all turned white and by today are all gone.  But least I know without a doubt she's a she:)

10/24/07 - The new batch of babies are doing well so far. Mom and Dad have moved them twice since they hatched. From the magnet to the corner of the tank (see pics in the Fry Photo Section) and now they are in one of the plastic plants, not free swimming yet.

10/18/07 - Mom and Dad laid a new batch today. They picked (with all the good choices I gave them) the magnetic cleaner that I left in there after cleaning the glass the other day! OY! these 2!!!  I'm going to let them raise the babies this time by them selves and see what happens.

10/8/07 - Well I've moved the larger babies now in with the younger ones. They're pretty close tot he same size believe it or not, so I won't post anymore about them here as they've joined the ranks of the younger.

9/11/07 - I've taken a few videos of the babies and put them on youtube. My name there is spenycat (someone took Penycat! how dare they!?!) lol If you want to check them out, way cool:)

I've got the 55 set up with the divider all in place and ready to go, only problem now is, the dresser that i was first going to put the tank on, isn't strong enough to hold that much weight. So now I'm in the market for a big strong but cheap dresser:) But everyone's doing well!!!

9/3/07 - Okay, I started to think that the 5 gallon was getting too small, so I moved the larger babies into the big tank with the other fish in a beta "suction to the side" tank on the 1st then moved the babies into the 10 gallon. The regular filter that I had with the older babies is too strong for the little ones, so the sponge filter is back in there and all are doing well. The older ones are aboe quarter size now from fin tip to fin tip. Today, I'm going to Home-Depot to get 2 pieces of plexiglass cut. I'm going to set up my other 55 gallon up here and section the tank in thirds. Then the older and younger babies can all be in the same tank and it'll be eaiser to keep them all. once they are large size and untill I can sell them, I still have my 75 outside (got to get it cleaned out) and we'll be good to go!

8/27/07 - Everyone so far doing well! The babies are growing and the older ones the same. I've got videos now on youtube if anyone's interested. - http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=SPenycat It's silly I know, but fun:)

8/24/07 - Everything's doing great! The first babies are starting to get streaks of black in their fins, so I'm going to assume they'll take after dad, but we'll see.

8/19/07 - Alrighty then! I've got a new set up now. the 4 older babies are in a 10 gallon aquarium with a rear filter and a bubbler and small heater. I bought a new net and cut the netting off to wrap around the filter base so that the babies won't get sucked into it but the baby brine shrimp that's not eaten will. The 2 biggest ones are now starting to look like angelfish. their fins are growing longer on top and bottom and one I think may be getting stripes, but they are still to small to really tell.

8/13/07 - The bigger babies started to eat the little just hatched ones, so I went out looking for a 10 gallon...grrr course the only places that had jsut ten gallon tanks that weren't kits didn't take our cc. But I got one of those net breeders and put the older babies in there and the little ones still at the bottom.

8/11/07 - 5 bigger babies are doing great. Now wondering if I need to move them in fear of them hurting the newest babies...lol anyone have an old 10 gallon??? :)

8/8/07 - Wow! We've been gone out of the house for three days. Our air condition broke in of course the hottest week of the year and so we had to vacate the area. I was worried that I'd come home to a dead tank of babies, but not a single one died, they are 2x the size of when I left! I can see body parts now (head, fins, whatnot) the biggest 2 are about a quarter of an inch and just acting like real fish. it's so fun! The eggs that the parent's laid in the big tank are gone now, I'm guessing they got eaten, but with the way they are going, I'm thinking there will be more shortly. I better use this time to clean out the big tank!

K still same day but now at night. They've just laid a bunch more eggs. I'm thinking Daddy is going to be moved to my other aquarium for a bit. They need to stop doing this for a while. But this time I've got the eggs out, I know they were laid today, so it'll be cool to actually see everything from the very moment of coming into being:) There's new pics uploaded in the photo section of facebook.  The rest about these babies will be in their own separate fry section.

8/3/07 - I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! my angels have laid more eggs! this time on the heater of the tank. and this time I didn't catch it till the babies are already hatched and mom's cleaned off all the dead eggs. They are about I'd guess 3 days from when they hatched. and of course in the hardest corner to get into. Now I've got to figure out how to get them off there and into my baby tank...OY!!!!

8/2/07 - Well there are 7 babies left. these seem to be doing well and are growing. there's 2 in particular that are starting to change body shape a bit as they are getting bigger. They are now about 2xs the size of when they were born though still tiny. I'm feeding the live just hatched brine shrimp 3xs a day now and changing about 25% of the water each morning, enough to keep the bottom free of "stuff".

7/28/07 - Been a bit, but not much to report till today. Everyone was doing fine, eating a few times a day and me scooping out the bottom. But suddenly I'm losing a bunch of them:'( Not sure what's going on, maybe this is normal? But I last night and this morning scooped out a bunch of them. there's maybe 15-20 left. They seem to be doing pretty good, but I'm sad for the others. I just restarted my hatchery for the bring shrimp, maybe more of the live will be good instead of the frozen all the time. keep your fingers crossed!!!

7/23/07 - cleaned out the tanks a bit more today than just the random bottom cleaning. I'm figuring at this time there are between 25-50 babies. it's hard to tell with them all over the place now:) I fed them live food today, It's funny to see tiny little white things moving around the tank and the babies going after them. Love it!!!

7/22/07 - This morning when I woke up all the babies were in these tiny little clusters together all on the bottom. I checked the temp and saw it was below 80...still in the green for normal tank conditions, but obviously not warm enough for them. So I set a mini heater in there, fed them a bit of baby brine and left for church. 
- Got back 12:30 and they are all free swimming! Not a single one laying on the bottom! YAY! So will go and feed again for their lunch. This is awesome! 
- K now it's just before we leave for church again (3:30), gave them second lunch and actually saw some of the eating...whoot!!!!

7/21/07 - A few of the babies are free swimming now. They still stick to the sides and bottom, but can swim in a straight line now instead of crazy circles. But when we got home they are finally all not attacked to the filter and dead eggs, so i took that out and put it back in my big aquarium and siphoned the last of the dead eggs and white stuff out. But all the babies are laying on the ground. They wiggle every once, but being brand new at this, I'm a bit worried.

7/20/07 -  Most of their little yolk sacs are gone now, so I started to feed the frozen baby brine shrimp. Siphoned a few times today as the dead eggs have an icky white cloud of whatever around them. a lot of babies are still hanging on this white stuff and won't let go. (strong little buggers!)

7/19/07 -  - took a few more pictures of them as already they are starting to look like fish instead of sand bits. Siphoned out the bottom again

7/18/07 - I moved them into a 5 gallon aquarium with a sponge filter on very low. Took their first pictures. Used a line of aquarium tubing and siphoned the bottom a bit to get some of the egg sacks and "dead" eggs out (not fertilized white eggs)

7/17/07 - The eggs started to hatch.

7/15/07 - I first saw that the eggs had been layed.

My YouTubes

Angelfish Secrets Revealed
Very interesting!
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For those that aren't into Angels, but love other fish,
here are some resources for you!

Discus Fish Secrets I've not read this one, but anything to help with these fish I figure must be good! Let me know if you get it and how it is! Click Here!	Betta Lover's Guide Click Here!

Betta Lover's Guide Click Here!	Katys Tropical Fish - A Complete Guide Click Here!

Goldfish Secrets Click Here!	Arowana/Dragon Fish Care Click Here!

Tropical Fish Secrets Click Here!	Halfmoon Betta Fish Guide Only book I've seen that that Specializes in Half-Moons only! Click Here!

Saltwater Reef Aquariums 101 Click Here!	The Kick Aquarium A Freshwater Aquarium Book Click Here!