Captive breeding of the Bellus angelfish

[chad vossen]

Late last year we put in a lot of effort into rearing the bellus angelfish. The full write up can be found here - https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bellus-angelfish-breeding-project.319243/. I'll share the details here for everyone to enjoy.

Here's a video of the spawn.

This clip shows how the infertile eggs sink, while the fertilized eggs float

Here's an egg hatching

Which resulted in a nice crop of prolarvae.

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We had a massive number of larvae survive to about day 10

By day 28, we had 20 larvae past flexion.

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Around day 40, we had 6 left.

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Day 55

Then finally, day 87 we have little bellus angelfish!

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[HairyGary]

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Captive breeding of the Bellus angelfish



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Nice work Chad!

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

This was incredible, thank you for sharing your experience!

How many of the little fella's ended up making it?

 

[chad vossen]

Only a handful made it through, but this was during Black Friday when I was working 12 hours at the day job. We lost most of the angels around day 10, which was when I was working the most. In the future, I'm confident we can improve the results significantly.

 

[cracker]

My most respect for your work ! People like You will someday raise all the fish we need .

 

[fishplace817]

that's awesome! how you maintain to get the eggs into the container? how to keep it alive? Do you use a hatchery for the copepods?

 

[grassy_noel]

This is amazing and in my opinion the only viable long-term future of our hobby! Keep up the good work. I love to see breeders that are finally working with species other than clownfish and blennies!

 

[Amps Reef Life]

I love it!! Amazing work! Thank you for what you are doing! Respect ;Jawdrop

 

[Servillius]

Amazing work!

I have a watanabi pair I’m pretty sure has spawned, but I have no idea where to go from there.

 

[chad vossen]

that's awesome! how you maintain to get the eggs into the container? how to keep it alive? Do you use a hatchery for the copepods?

We have a series of screens that we use to clean the eggs, and concentrate them. The little jar was used only for visual, they're normally kept in a larger container. We maintain large copepod cultures to keep up with feeding.

 

[Sunny Goold]

Well this is so great! Huge respect. These are a great reef safe fish if I am right. I hope this turns into a good income earner for you and more people join you

 

[samnaz]

wow, simply incredible work you guys have done here. thanks so much for all your effort in aquaculture.

 

[A777flygirl]

Thank you for sharing! This is fascinating!!

 

[larryl]

Thank you for all your hard work, you are the future of this hobby.

 

[Robs Reef]

Simply amazing, great work!

 

[davocean]

You guys are doing some seriously amazing things!

 

[cracker]

This is amazing and in my opinion the only viable long-term future of our hobby! Keep up the good work. I love to see breeders that are finally working with species other than clownfish and blennies!

This could someday be so much more than just this Hobby.

 

[pasquale petrovia]

I didn't know it was possible in captivity short of ORA and the likes. Awesome job, You have me thinking. I may pick your brain some time in the future. Thanks for all your efforts. We all have hero in us.

 

[TX_Punisher]

What ever happened with this project? Have any bellus available?