Angelfish fry has been successfully raised on a diet of newly hatched Brine shrimp (napulii) for the first 4 weeks of their lives and fed two to four times daily.
After that, they were gradually introduced to a mixture of finely powdered Angelfish flakes and powdered dried blood worms with an occasional (twice a week) feeding of baby brine shrimp.
When their bodies are about the size of a quarter, they may be fed Guppy fry. An easy way to provide this very nutritious food is to keep pregnant guppies in the same tank as the young Angels, and the rest is up to nature.
Of course, feedings of other varied foods are needed to round out the diet.
The author conducted an experiment and got 6 quarter-sized Angelfish from a large tank of like-sized Angels and put them in a 10-gallon tank with a sponge filter and Water Sprite.
They were free-fed guppy fry and twice a day received any combination of Angelfish flakes, frozen bloodworms, frozen brine shrimp, and dried worms for 4 weeks. At the end of the experiment, the 6 who received a varied diet twice a day were almost the size of a half-dollar while the size of the other Angelfish barely had any noticeable growth at all.
You can see that the correct diet for your Angels is essential to potential and current breeder fish.
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