I moved the 2nd batch of fries today to the 20gallon tank.

Batch 2 at 20 days old:

Batch 2 at 20 days old:

Batch 2 [spawned 2006.08.09]:

Batch 3 [spawned 2006.08.21]:

Last week I was surprised to find eggs on a leaf in our 55-gallon tank. Our koi angelfishes have spawned their first batch of eggs!

I immediately googled on what to expect during the first 7 days and moved the leaf into a smaller tank. Dropped some methylene blue and ran an airstone to circulate the water.

At day 7, the yolk sac is starting to shrink and the eyes and tail are well defined.:

To improve survival rate at fry stage, one of the recommendations was to feed baby brine shrimp but right now all I have is Hikari First Bites. We'll see how many will make it to 3 weeks!

-kyo-

What a difference 3 months makes:

Before: 2005.07.29

After: 2005.10.22

Thanks to Jim for pointing out that the URLs may not work correctly for certain filphoto.com users.

-kyo-