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some really nifty, healthy fish for you to sell if the whole thing is done right.
Boy am I smart . . . yea . . . Mikey’ll eat it, give it to Mikey. Anyway . . . I’ve
been breeding angels for about 5-6 years now. It’s another story about how I got
started and what I’ve raised, but I still piddle with them and I am always looking
for a way to be more successful in the hatching and raising of these wonderful
fish in a system that does not resemble a gazillion acre fish farm . . . sooooooo
one night I am cleaning the tanks and I think, hey, you don’t have to always have
PVC tubes they lay their eggs on falling down . . . why don’t you “silastic” a piece
of PVC to a piece of slate . . . great idea. So I found a piece of slate that is about
3” x 3” and perfectly flat on one side (so it won’t wobble) and I cut a piece of PVC
about 6-8” long . . . 45 degrees cut on one end. I positioned the PVC on the slate
such that it sticks upright at a 45 degree angle and “silasticated” (is that a word?
- it’s a fish thing) it to slate . . . perfect, perfect, perfect. Now when the fish lay the
eggs on it you can just pick it up and put it in the hatching tank and it has its own
base and no problem . . . heh, heh, heh! It all went perfect. My albino angels spawned
like two little . . . well, they just spawned . . . I grabbed the “spawning tree” and
it’s base came with it slick as slime and put it in the hatching tank and bingo . . .
everything went perfect and they hatched and I was so proud I left the tube in the
hatching tank too long . . . you are not going to believe what happened! Out of
300+ angels ALL but about 5 were down in the PVC tube and smothered to death
. . . I’m not kidding . . . there was something to the current of the water passing
over the top of the PVC tube such that all of the young as they just became free
swimming they were all sucked into the top of the PVC tube and they couldn’t get
out and all died for lack of circulated water . . . and you think things happen to
you . . . result . . . I took a hack saw and cut the PVC down vertically so that there
is now a 1/2 PVC tube 6-8” long glued to the slate. . . now it works super . . . just
when you thought you think you know it all you tend to be jerked right back down
to the reality of earth . . . Fins Up!

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