Wild Male Peruvian x Marble Female Spawn
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I think I was about 18 when I watched my first Angel fish spawn. I know I was in college. I always had a love for just the plain old silvers and the marbles. Now, 30 + years later I still have a love for just plain old silvers and the marbles. Last year I picked up a bag of mixed marble angels at a club auction for a pittance. Then a little later on I picked up some wild Peruvian angels for a reasonable price. The marbles grew up and I got a very prolific pair that I have gotten a lot of fry from. They seem to have about every gene in them that exists. About 1/4 of their fry are albinos. I also had one extra marble female in the same tank. I moved her to a 29 that had a half dozen wild Peruvians. She finally paired off with a male in that tank and I got a spawn. The tank also had a lot of endler's in it, supplying a steady supply of live goodies to eat.
Housing and Breeding

They are in a 29 gallon tank. The tank has gravel, an outside filter, heater set at 78F, 2 slates, and a lot of plants. The endler's drop babies that quickly disappear in this tank. Unfortunately, as the Angels grow up, the males have disappeared also. Now the tank just has 10-15 females that are slowly dropping the last of their fry.

The angels in this tank have never done much sparring like I am used to angels doing. I would just notice that a couple were at one end of the tank, and all the rest were at the other end. At one point the tank had a couple at one end, another couple at the other end, and a pathetic collection in the middle. I moved the middle fish to another 29 gallon. One morning I had a dead angel. I moved the other fish to the next tank. That left me with a 29 with a marble and a wild along with a slowly declining number of endler's females.

Naturally, they ignored the slates and spawned on a leaf right in the middle of the tank. As you can see in the pic, the endlers hovered and worried the fish around the clock.
Foods
Adult fish are fed live blackworms, daphnia, Frozen brine shrimp, mosquito larvae and frozen bloodworms. Not all at the same time, of course.I feed blackworms for about 3 weeks, then the frozen brine shrimp and frozen bloodworms for 1-2 weeks. Then back to the blackworms. Mosquito larvae and daphnia are fed when available.I add some flake food just as a toss in when it is between meals.

This spawn reached free swimming. But that was it. The endler's picked them off in droves. I know that I could have pulled the eggs, or even syphoned out the fry. But what I wanted was to see if the parents would manage to raise them up. My very productive marble pair pays a little attention to the eggs, but eats everything as soon as they go free swimming. So with them I have to pull the eggs if I want to get the fry.

With this new pair, the wild male tried hard to keep an eye on the eggs, but the females seem to be the primary care givers. And this marble female did not work nearly as hard as would be needed to protect her young.
While I did not get any fry raised up, or get what I would consider a valuable breeding pair, this effort is still a great success. If I want to pull the eggs, I have a good pair that laid a lot of fertile eggs on their furst spawn. If I want to break up the pair, I have a marble known female and a known wild male. And I got some great video of the spawning that I can edit and work up into something useful.