Freshwater Angelfish: Tips For Keeping And Breeding Them
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Keeping Healthy Angelfish
Optimal tank conditions is water with a temperature ranging from 72-79 degrees and pH range of 6.8-7.5. The tank should be no smaller than 20 gallons and should be tall enough to allow plenty of space for the long fins of Angelfish.
When water is kept clean and optimal with regular water changes, angelfish will be healthy and add their own unique beauty to any aquarium.
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Tips for Breeding Freshwater Angelfish
Angelfish like to pair up on their own so placing a male and a female together is not going to bring the desired breeding results. The best way to get a breeding pair to to keep several juveniles together in an aquarium and let them grow up together. As they mature a male and female will naturally pair up. Once this has occurred then they must be separated from the rest by either moving the pair to a new tank or the others.
With a breeding pair now established and in their own tank inducing spawning is only a matter of good tank maintenance. A breeding pair of Angelfish will spawn often in a tank that is cleaned regularly and has optimal water conditions.
The pair will spawn by first choosing a flat surface to lay the eggs. The female will make several passes along the chosen surface laying her eggs. She is followed by the male angelfish who passed closely over the eggs fertilizing them. At the end of this both parents will guard the eggs and protect the fry once the eggs have hatched. Freshwater angelfish are good parents and rarely do they ever eat the eggs or the fry. A young pair may on occasion, eat their eggs after spawning but they usually stop after the first or second spawning.
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Freshwater Angelfish on Wikipedia
Pterophyllum is a small genus of freshwater fish from the family Cichlidae known to most aquarists as "Angelfish". All Pterophyllum species originate from the Amazon River, Orinoco River and Essequibo River basins in tropical South America. The three species of Pterophyllum are unusually shaped for cichlids being greatly laterally compressed, with round bodies and elongated triangular dorsal and anal fins. This body shape allows them to hide among roots and plants, often on a vertical surface. Naturally occurring angelfish are frequently striped longitudinally, colouration which provides additional camouflage. Angelfish are ambush predators and prey on small fish and macroinvertebrates. All Pterophyllum species form monogamous pairs. Eggs are generally laid on a submerged log or a flattened leaf. As is the case for other cichlids, brood care is highly developed.
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- Thank you for your lens on Angel fish. I have a pair and boy there always laying there eggs on the pump tub. But i have tried and tried to save them and have read enough to know how but never works for me.
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