Dj Julius
I got my Savannah in about september as a larger baby so I'm guessing she's roughly 7 or 8 months old I have all the right temps n a family large cage about 5 ft by 4 ft with ramp n another level she's about 13 or 14 inches I feed her about a adult mouse and 50 crickets a week I just wanted to know if she is doing good growth wise for her age 13 inches and 7 months?
Answer
Sorry DJ, this is the wrong "monitor" category - questions in this monitor category are about computer monitors, not reptiles. I see that you've already posted under reptiles, so you should get a better answer there.
Sorry DJ, this is the wrong "monitor" category - questions in this monitor category are about computer monitors, not reptiles. I see that you've already posted under reptiles, so you should get a better answer there.
My angelfish just had babies, what do I do?
Lime
Well we have 3 angelfish and then we noticed, there were a lot of little fishes swimming around the tank. We assumed that one of our fish had babies but now we don't know what to do. We weren't expecting babies so we have nothing set. What do we need to help these fish live and grow?
Answer
Uhh... angelfish don't HAVE babies. They have to lay eggs. And I'm sure you would have seen them laying and guarding the eggs if they did indeed lay eggs.
Do you have any other fish in the tank, like platies or guppies? Those give birth to live babies, so you wouldn't see any eggs in the tank if it was the platies or guppies giving birth.
You could have also had a different fish lay eggs. Most fish don't guard their eggs, just mate and scatter the eggs around the tank, hoping they'll survive. So, do you have any fish like cories or danios, any egg laying fish in the tank other than the angels?
If your angels did indeed lay eggs and have babies, then just don't do anything. They will care for the babies by themselves. But you may have to put them into a different tank. Parent angelfish will become aggressive and attack any other tank mates that provoke them.
For now, make sure you cover the filter, so none of the babies can get sucked in. The foot part of a pair of pantyhose will cover the filter well without restricting the flow too much.
And since you have the filter covered, if the babies disappear overnight, then you can conclude that a fish ate them instead of them being sucked into the filter.
If you want to keep the babies (which you really shouldn't. overpopulates the tank fast) then go out and buy a 10 gallon tank with a hood and a sponge filter, no substrate or anything. Try using Tetra SafeStart to cycle your tank. Add a pinch of fish food or pure ammonia, so there is ammonia in the tank for bacteria to break down. Then add the SafeStart.
You can get a few live or fake plants, tie them to rocks to keep them down. You can also get a few decorations for the babies to hide in, but I wouldn't really bother if you have plants.
It's best to have a bare bottom tank because you can monitor the dying fry, feces and uneaten fish food that falls to the bottom.
If any substrate, use sand. Gravel allows uneaten fish food, feces, even small fry to just get stuck under the rocks, and then it becomes very hard to clean without sucking up any little fry.
Feed them very high protein foods, like 50% protein, so they can grow faster. You can use ground-up flake food, or baby brine shrimp. Ocean nutrition makes instant baby brine shrimp, for small fish and fish fry, so you can try that. Very nutritious, especially for growing baby fry!
Sorry this was so long, but I hope this was helpful, and good luck with the babies!
Uhh... angelfish don't HAVE babies. They have to lay eggs. And I'm sure you would have seen them laying and guarding the eggs if they did indeed lay eggs.
Do you have any other fish in the tank, like platies or guppies? Those give birth to live babies, so you wouldn't see any eggs in the tank if it was the platies or guppies giving birth.
You could have also had a different fish lay eggs. Most fish don't guard their eggs, just mate and scatter the eggs around the tank, hoping they'll survive. So, do you have any fish like cories or danios, any egg laying fish in the tank other than the angels?
If your angels did indeed lay eggs and have babies, then just don't do anything. They will care for the babies by themselves. But you may have to put them into a different tank. Parent angelfish will become aggressive and attack any other tank mates that provoke them.
For now, make sure you cover the filter, so none of the babies can get sucked in. The foot part of a pair of pantyhose will cover the filter well without restricting the flow too much.
And since you have the filter covered, if the babies disappear overnight, then you can conclude that a fish ate them instead of them being sucked into the filter.
If you want to keep the babies (which you really shouldn't. overpopulates the tank fast) then go out and buy a 10 gallon tank with a hood and a sponge filter, no substrate or anything. Try using Tetra SafeStart to cycle your tank. Add a pinch of fish food or pure ammonia, so there is ammonia in the tank for bacteria to break down. Then add the SafeStart.
You can get a few live or fake plants, tie them to rocks to keep them down. You can also get a few decorations for the babies to hide in, but I wouldn't really bother if you have plants.
It's best to have a bare bottom tank because you can monitor the dying fry, feces and uneaten fish food that falls to the bottom.
If any substrate, use sand. Gravel allows uneaten fish food, feces, even small fry to just get stuck under the rocks, and then it becomes very hard to clean without sucking up any little fry.
Feed them very high protein foods, like 50% protein, so they can grow faster. You can use ground-up flake food, or baby brine shrimp. Ocean nutrition makes instant baby brine shrimp, for small fish and fish fry, so you can try that. Very nutritious, especially for growing baby fry!
Sorry this was so long, but I hope this was helpful, and good luck with the babies!
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