angel fish babies

Question
i just had babies hatch i have them in a regular tank gravel.plants,etc.didnt know i had a pair how and when do i seperate the babies and how do i care for them?

Answer
Hi Chris,
Congratulations on the new baby angelfish! Are they with the pair right now? If so, I'd let them be and let the mother and father fish take care of them. They will clean and guard the babies if you have a good pair. The fry will will clustered together for at least 7 days or so, they'll be feeding off their yolk sac and they will not have to be fed during this time. Make sure you get a batch of brine shrimp eggs going. You can buy complete setups for brine shrimp or just have a homemade version. You need a soda bottle and a airpump, plus salt and brine shrimp eggs.  You can now find packets of brine shrimp eggs plus the proper amount of salt  already premixed. Just follow the directions.

Watch the baby angels and as soon as they become free-swimming (they usually stay in a group together) you'll need to get a siphon started with airline tubing, and siphon out the newly hatched brine shrimp, siphon them into a brine shrimp net (they have white cloth with usually blue handles) over a container. Then take some freshwater (dechlorinated) and dip the net a few times in the freshwater to wash the salt off the brine shrimp. You can get the shrimp off the net into a container of tank water (a plastic cup) so you can use a eyedropper to directly feed the group or you can swish the net around in the water near the group to feed the babies. The fry should be fed at least six times a day. Or as often as you can manage. It should be very frequent and small feedings at a time. Some people get by with 4 feedings a day however.
Now that the fry are free-swimming you can start doing small water changes. Daily water changes are excellent for fry, it helps them grow faster and be healthier. Using a siphon around fry is tricky, but if you are careful everything usually works out fine. If you do in fact siphon up a fry, usually they can be returned to the tank unharmed (your brine shrimp net works well for this job) Make sure the replacement water is always pre-dechlorinated and equal in temp to your fry's tank temperature.

That's pretty much it for raising baby angelfish. Just keep them fed with small frequent meals, do small (20%) water changes ideally daily, keep their tank warm and eventually when they start growing more you can offer them finely powdered flake food or special powdered baby fish food. Hikari makes a brand. I wanted to warn you that when the fry start to take on the shape of their parents and begin to grow their true fins, they may start to nibble on their parents. Eventually this will progress more and more until the parents are quite battered. When the baby angels are about the size of your thumbnail roughly.
You can read more about raising angelfish here- this website also explains about the babies nibbling on the parent's issue including a question I sent in a long time ago when I was at a loss when I had baby angels eating up their father's fins.
http://www.aquaworldaquarium.com/Spawning_and_Raising_Angelfish.htm

Best of luck!
Karen~