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Carefull, Chris....... I started exactly this way, about 30 years ago..... and I now have more than 25 different strains of "colour variety angels" and a few "wild type" strains in my breeding programme. Trust me (and Alto!) it really takes a lot of aquarium space and waterchanges and...

I keep A. trifasciata and A. cacatoides in several of my tanks - and when the females look like this it is usually only a matter of a day or two untill eggs are layed. The extra territorial behaviour of the female also indicates eggs soon to be laid (if not allready there). Mine often place...

I keep Apistogramma trifasciata, too. Beautifull fish and not that diffucult to neither hold or breed. Your male should get much more iridescent blue and very elongated, red threads at the fin on his back. Your female look female to me. All my males seem to be serious Bast..ds to eachother and...

These were the very first fish I kept (not counting local cought stickleback and the likes in buckets and dishwashing bowls alongside all kinds of water-beetles, frogs and salamanders - sorry, but yes I've been there, killing off a few, too). The "White Cloud's" were really fascinating in...

I have had a fine population of Red cherry shrimp going in a huge, densely planted tank for long - adding adult pairs of Angels (some of my breeding stock) made the defenite end of that within weeks.......... I now have the same Angels living (relatively) peacefull with a population of big Amano...

Congratulations - success often comes to those persistent and willing to learn:clap:. I usually feed Artemia for 4 - 6 weeks......sometimes longer. It really make the fry eat all they possibly can, thereby growing all they possibly can. If fry does not start to eat "dead food" voluntarily...

no - I mean you should not be tempted to put too many fish in too little water, even if you do a lot of water-changes (really should be self-evident). The fry will grow surprisingly fast and therefore need surprisingly lot of space in surprisingly short time. When I grow more than a thousaind...

The Hikari-food I know of is for Koi-carps and based on wheat-grains=> plants. I would expect the fry of Scalare to need their animal-based food => Artemia. In principle you can probaply use most crustations of acfeptable size........but Artemia is really by far the easiest to handle. Being...

Good to see success, finally. Remember to feed "the kids" very well with the Artemia.........preferably 3 times spread over the time, ligjts are fully on. It is really important, fry is eating all they possibly can, to develop their full potential. If they for some reason get a stop in growth at...

Oh an P.S. - I expect you have a weak light going at night, so parents can actually see their fry and take care of them.....

Happy to hear your breeding pair is improving each time......as long as they get better each time, there is hope they will finally success! It is not unusual, that a pair that loose their eggs will spawn again within few weeks (sometimes days).Often a male will choose a different female, if...

I allways try to do a good (=about 50%) waterchange when I see pair cleaning space for laying. This will reduce amount of fungi and bacteria in water, which can attack the eggs and young larvae, killing them off. So chances of eggs hatching gets better this way. High tempetature (= 29 - 32 C...

Double-female-pair in domestic Ptetophyllum scalare is actually not that rare.........I have had several. It is not (always) a matter of no males available, since I have had such pairs pairing out, when I do my usual large "teen-age" groups (25 - 50 individuels) to get the best possible...

I breed angels - but agree you will not make money out of it :) - it is fun, though, if you want to observe parential behaviour in cichlids. Your angels have obviously paired off and are cleaning a space for laying their eggs (probaply done, by now!). For successfull (natural) breeding, you will...

Running anything between 15 - 25 tanks at home at any time..........there's allways a place for quarantine :rolleyes:............. - I would not dream of letting anything un-quarantined near some of my breeding-stock-angels........it took me years of selective breeding, to get the quality :stop:.

I think your fish are named as follow - ( so you can search the net F.eks by googling for "angelfish genetics" ) : 1 & 2 are Leopard or snakeskin 3 & 4 are smokey 5 & 6 are Gold Marple maybe Koi 7 is wildtype or Silver 8 & 9 are smokey Gold Marble - and the extra long fins are also genetic...

I think 2 types of Pterophyllum are accepted today; Pterophylum scalare scalare and Ptetophyllum scalare meboldii/leopoldii. I'm pretty sure the Ptetophyllum altum is considered a more distant relative to the two. The two first can interbreede - I haven't heard of crossbreeding with P. altum. -...

P.S. Angels are notorious "easily scared" - especially at lights on/off - which make them do very fast "jump forward" no matter what they hit or come inbetween. This is how they escape predators in the wild. Knowing this, makes a "scratch" even more likely, as you say it occured "overnight". It...

I am 99% sure that is a "skin-scratch" (sorry, english is not my native tongue). My angels (and I have many, since I breed them !!) look exactly like this, if they have been stuck a little inbetween things ( =rock/glasswall, filter/glasswall, rock/rock......or the unlucky; fishing...

Just checked your journal, Martin (sorry, I don't usually have much time for journals). From the patterns in fins of your angelfish, I am pretty sure they have some 'zebra'genes in them, though mostly appear 'wild' type. As said, there are really many forms. I am quite sure, a lot of the...

P.S. not that this sounds like the issue, you have - but if you raise fry of "standard" wild-type angels in full light, 24 hours.....they will not develop their stribes. If this goes on for long enough, stribes will not develop ever, even if fish is then moved to night/day conditions. Some of...

The "standard" wild-type angelfish is nowhere near the wild type anymore - they are long-time, captive bred strains. Which I actually find a good thing, since this mean less hunt for wild specimens. But it also means, that there a really a lot of different strains in trade. Some of which are...

While working in a zoo, years ago, I had some (supposedly) "true, wild guppies" released into some huge ponds. It really took less than a year, though, to detect noticeable changes in body-size, colours and shape of fins on primarily the males........simply because of too little predation on the...

Consider this fun and "try and error"...... If you really want to understand the genetics of it.......you are in for some SERIOUS reading up on Mendell's laws, dominant- and recessive genes, allel genes etc. etc. I bred colour-variations of angelfish years ago - also creating new colours - and...

I have had A LOT of Oto's swimming private tanks, test-tanks and expo-tanks. And I've been wondering, too, why they differ so much. To me there is clearly differences in shape of fins, shape of body, shape of head, coloration and adult size. It's not individual differences -'there seem to be...

- I'd seriously consider some planting, for cover for the other inhabitants as well as the Pterophyllum scalare. Some large Echinodorus bleherii are really benefitial and are easy plants to keep.....

I have kept Pterophyllum scalare on both ways - I really don't think they care, as long as flow doesn't push them around !! Some of my smaller holding-tanks for adult pairs, not needed for breeding, actually only have the flow from an air-stone.....and waterchanges ofcourse. A few pcs. of...

If you're going for "domesticated" lines of Pterophyllum scalare, these are generally very tolerant of water-parametres (ex. ammonia) - therefore easy fish to keep. Some "strains" are much more agressive than others, though (ex. True black males, tend to be mean Bast..ds ! ) Like allready...

Several Kissing gouramis were part of the Asian exibition in the zoo, where I once worked. They inhabited a relatively small pond, and were a quite large size. Nowhere near the Giant gouramies, though (scary Bast...S, those !!) Visitors loved them - they displayed their kissing behaviour a lot...

Ramshorns, Oto's, cherries and Amano have been eating leaves off Nymph. hyd. when just planted in my testing of the plant, too. Every time it has been due to the emergent leaves not adapting well - the little Bast...'s can smell a decaying leaf long before we see it :confused: and then go for...

- learning by doing.............or ........try and error !! We've all been there (though not all willingly admit, I suppose) - and we are all still learning (I hope) :thumbup:

Maybe do a little research on fish, before buying.............:oops: Barbs are generally more or less herbivores, I think ! - this is why I never choose those, for Expo-scapes, actually. Nice, lively, easy and colourfull fish........but not really plant-safe !!

I've actually used them "professionally", to keep underwater-grown moss free of algae AND trim new growt, to promote division of "strings". Worked like a treat - but it's a fine balance of plant-mass and fish-population. This was actually dificult, since the Bast... breed like rabbits.....:meh:

Congratulations.........you're in for a very interesting behaviour, when you get the time to let them go all the way. - a first advice: raise the temp. in the tank to 29-30 celcius, as soon as the eggs are laid. This will increase survival of the babies on their first week ( when they are still...

You are so right !!! This is actually one of my favourite colour-strains in angelfish.

Hi NC Yep - it's good practice to buy at least 5-6 juvenile fish of same type, if you want a chance of pairing angels. They choose their partner, so more individuels than that, to choose from, make better and more reliable pairs. Maturity of angelfish depends a lot of what and how heavy they're...

Hi Andy Your fish was either German blue or Philipine blue (which may actually be the same thing). Notice the "standad" amount of stripes - compared to the extra stripes on the Zebra.

Looks a lot like juvenile fish, maturing. I've bred different colour-varieties of Pterophyllum (angels) for 30+ years now - and this strong colouration (incl. brighter red eyes)often appear when the fish become sexually mature. Often strongest on the males......but some females get strong...

It's gona look great, Karen - remember to let us all see how great ;) Mick.

I go with "the stick" idea too. You can add Anubias and/or Microsorum, to "break" the softness of moss. Just tie the plant onto a branch, you allready tied moss to. Really easy - looks very natural. Mick.