by Kaycy Ruffer at www.kcff.net

In 1988 I tried spawning Angelfish. A good friend of mine in Red Bluff, he owned the local pet shop at the time, told me the best thing to do was to hatch and raise the fry myself. He eventually sold his pet store to one of his employees so he could spend all his time breeding Angelfish for the area wholesalers. I tried my hand at breeding the beautiful Angelfish again. I had put the slate in a 10-gallon tank. Placed an air stone by the slate with the side containing the eggs facing down. The air flow was slow with a sponge filter at the opposite end of the tank for filtration. In Corning my pH was 8.0 and my hardness was more than 400 ppms. It still had not turned blue with 40 drops so I quit putting in the drops! I kept the temperature at 78° F. The eggs were definitely fertile and began hatching. This is when I would begin having problems. Part of the fry would die soon after hatching while others had no/or deformed ventral fins as they got older. I tried several different ways suggested to me to alleviate this problem but to no avail. I thought to myself that I just did not have the knack for breeding and raising Angelfish. So here I am again, in 1993. I was given a breeding pair of gold veil-tail Angels from a friend of mine that I met at an aquarium club meeting. I set them up in a 30-gallon bare bottom tank with a piece of slate positio ...

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