Ive a pair of angels, wasnt sure their were a breeding pair untill about two 
week ago i caught them eating eggs laid on a plant, i removed the eggs to 
tub with some meth blue and an airstone and they all turned white after 
about 4 days i discarded them.

About two days ago, more eggs on another leaf this time the angels werent 
eating them but i removed the leaf just in case, again put in a tub, drop of 
meth blue, airstone, and replaced 50% of the water daily with tank water, 
still nothing, am i doing something wrong, maybe i will leave the eggs in 
situe next time and see if they hatch, being in a hardwater area though they 
usually get fungus.

Plus the angels are with other dwarf chiclids which may eat the young in any 
case. Not feasable to remove adult to another tank, they are quite big. Its 
either leave the eggs and hope, or keep doing what im doing and hope its 
just that they are not fertile at the moment.

It could be that ive two females of course. di

In message <440032fc$0$3638$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>, 
SpiceySpice  writes
>Ive a pair of angels, wasnt sure their were a breeding pair untill about two
>week ago i caught them eating eggs laid on a plant, i removed the eggs to
>tub with some meth blue and an airstone and they all turned white after
>about 4 days i discarded them.
>

There are numerous websites on breeding angels and how to tell their 
sex. I had a breeding pair and it drove me bonkers trying to get them to 
hatch. My personal view is that you need flowing clean water. So I put 
them in a shallow tank with a fairly strong powerhead providing a good 
current over the top of the eggs. Then I started to get knee deep in 
baby angel fish :-)

It's nice to do it once or twice though, just for that "oooooo" feeling 
when you first see a tank full of baby fish. Sex the fish first to see 
if you have a pair, then set up a tank with running water. Not an 
airstone, but a good strong current over the eggs.

-- 
Edward Cowling London UK

"Edward Cowling London UK"  wrote in message 
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> In message <440032fc$0$3638$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>, 
> SpiceySpice  writes
>>Ive a pair of angels, wasnt sure their were a breeding pair untill about 
>>two
>>week ago i caught them eating eggs laid on a plant, i removed the eggs to
>>tub with some meth blue and an airstone and they all turned white after
>>about 4 days i discarded them.
>>
>
> There are numerous websites on breeding angels and how to tell their sex. 
> I had a breeding pair and it drove me bonkers trying to get them to hatch. 
> My personal view is that you need flowing clean water. So I put them in a 
> shallow tank with a fairly strong powerhead providing a good current over 
> the top of the eggs. Then I started to get knee deep in baby angel fish 
> :-)
>
> It's nice to do it once or twice though, just for that "oooooo" feeling 
> when you first see a tank full of baby fish. Sex the fish first to see if 
> you have a pair, then set up a tank with running water. Not an airstone, 
> but a good strong current over the eggs.
>
> -- 
> Edward Cowling London UK

Some good advice here.
PS How do you ever get a breeding pair to hatch?

Water chemistry is also important.
Soft and acid is preferable, very hard and alkaline - egg fertility drops 
off.

Once the eggs do hatch and the fry need feeding I found it essential to have 
a ready & ample supply of newly hatched brine shrimp.
I found that the fry would totally refuse finely ground flake and would 
literally starve themselves to death unless some form of small & moving live 
food was available.

Fed enough NH brine shrimp, the fry had fat orange bellies and grew very 
quickly.
Once at about 4 weeks and beginning to actually look like angel fish they 
eagerly took small bits of flake.

It's a great sight to see the parents with a shoal of babies.
Good luck.