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I actually am selling my fry! check out the fish swap section and message me if still interested!

thank you! They are called pearl or shimmer zebra blue angelfish.

I also had a group of angelfish and I believe that in such a small space it be harder for them to pair off. I had 6 angelfish in my 55 gallon and all 6 paired off naturally and went into their own sections. I recommend getting at least a 40 breeder and see if they pair off naturally. Also sexing angelfish is a bit difficult because a lot of male and female angelfish look very similar but are different genders. Really the only way to identify angelfish is when they spawn or by their size which can differ. My angelfish are very similar in features they both have the hump and are nearly the same size.

I am pretty sure there are thousands of articles on how to breed angelfish but I just wanted to recount from my experiences. When my angelfish started breeding they were still very young around 4.5 months old. Weird to think about because most websites state that they start around 6 months but that is completely wrong, my angelfish paired off at 3 months and spawned for the first time around 4.5ish months. I kept my angelfish in 81-82 degrees, a tds of 80 and fed them heavy on bbs, blood worms, white worms, brine shrimp, and tropical flakes. One thing that I regret doing when I noticed their first "behaviors" is moving them to a complete seperate tank. It spooked them a little and because it was a new environment they spawned and ate their eggs. I recommend keeping the pair in the original tank and do not move them at all, instead pull the eggs out and hatch them yourself. Now after they spawn, you want to keep them in a container for them to hatch to wrigglers. For this you need some methalyne blue and aeration. I used a 2.5 gallon tank that I found and used that to hatch my eggs. But any large container that can hold the eggs will work. Now this process may take 2-3 days for them to see any wriggler action. After 5 days they should be free swimming. During that process do not mess with anything in the water or the tank. Just leave them until they start free swimming. Now once you see them free swimming they should be able to take in food. I recommend using hikari first bites or what you can do is use boiled egg mix it in with water and strain it with a cloth to take out any large pieces. I fed my fry this for 2-3 and did small wc after every feeding and did this until they were big enough to feed on baby brine shrimp. At that stage where they were able to feed on bbs I moved them to a 10 gallon and kept them there temporary for a month, I find that in a too large tank the fry find it difficult to find food so in my experience I kept them in a smaller but larger tank. Raising fry up to an inch is going to take at least 1-2 months. Keeping water clean is a MUST. I repeat do not risk the chance of your fry getting stunted, do 50-70% everyday if you feed 4-6 times every day like I do. If not 10-30% wc will work with small feedings. But do not feed once or twice a day because they need the food and clean water to grow faster and less risks of getting stunted. Once you see their growths and see their angelfish "figure," this is where the cruel part comes in.. Culling. I love my angelfish babies of course but it hurts to cull them espescially raising them up. But thats the dreaded part of fish breeding... For those who do not know what culling is, it basically means putting down fish that have missing fins or body parts because it risks the next line of fish to have that same deformity. But at the end of the day breeding fish is a great and exciting thing to do and I hope that those who have not bred angels before and raised fry please PLEASe give it a shot. P.S. I am also selling the parent's fry and so if anyone is interested I am doing pickup only for now (check out selling section) but I will soon ship out maybe in the next month. Thank You!

You do not need to qt them for that long, I would say 3-4 weeks is efficient enough but if you want to take it to be 100% sure that they are disease free thats your choice. Goodluck!

If you really want to raise up the fry and get a good batch, I recommend taking them out into a seperate container and hatching them yourself. I use methalyne blue and some aeriation in the tank and wait until the fry hatch. I would say a 20 long will work fine. This video should help

That high of nitrate will cause harm to all fish. Below at least 10 is safe but lower the better

They are bare brackish, which is like 1.001-1.003, I personally will still not recommend it.

AFD are sensitive to nitrate and 50ppm of nitrate is extremely high.

A single red tail shark needs a 4 feet tank 55 gallons, you could try a 40 gallon but I do not recommend it because they get to 5-6 inches and they are fin nippers, I kept one in my community tank and it is far too aggressive to be with angelfish. They are known to be fin nippers which my rts was one so I returned it, If you want a rts in a tank you want to keep it as the main show piece, do not put anything else other then a school of tetras.

poor water quality

That is black beard algae. BBA is caused by poor water, too much light, overdosing fertilizers, and fluctuating levels of CO2. Some good algae eaters that eat BBA is siamese algae eater, flag fish and some cases otos, nerite and amano shrimp.

Your tank is fully cycled when the nitrite and ammonia is at 0 and your nitrate will be high. That is when you do a 50% wc and add your livestock.

You can never really tell if an angelfish is a male or female until you get a pair and see a breeding tube. Angelfish can look very similar even when they are the opposite genders. For example my angelfish pair are very similar in their features, but the size difference shows. Thats why the golden rule with angels is to get 6 and let them naturally pair off like I did, and if you get a pair or 2,(luckily I got 3 pairs but gave 2 away and kept 1) thats when you can really tell a male or female angelfish.

Depends on how you want the hardness to be. You can mix your tap with ro water which I do and match a certain tds. Most SA fish will breed in a tds of 50-100 and I aim for around 70tds (currently breeding angels and rams)

You keep the meth blue until the fry are free swimming. After that you do small water changes.

Unfortuanetly, a lot of long fin bettas tend to have fin rot easily because of the long fins. Its going to happen often even with other fish or no fish.

Discus are going to have a pecking order like most cichlids, I would not worry too much. Like most cichlids having a group will disperse the aggression from the main aggresive but I would only start worrying if one of them starts to get too stressed.

first one looks like a koi angelfish, second one looks like a blushing angelfish

Normally you would want a ratio of 1m to 2f because rams tend to find another partner after they spawn, not in all cases but something to be cautious about. You could buy a female for that one male but be aware that male might be too aggressive for that female and might have to return it back.

10/29/2022 My 1.5 month old angelfish fry are doing really great, sad thing is a some of them have defects and its going to be a hard process of culling but I guess I have to do it. Lost 2 out of 3 of my midnight ram for unknown reasons which is really frustrating and I hope that I can keep this last pair alive. I have 4 batches of angelfish fry right now and it is packed indeed.

Wow those are very nice looking rams! I believe they are called platinum blue rams, I've seen some online and never really knew about how they were made.

Yea very understandable. I try to get my fish that are locally bred and the only time I really ordered fish online was the midnight rams.

I find electric blues to have better spawn then the gold and midnight. Im not sure if its just my pair but electrics to have better spawns.

Yea I followed the same exact things that you have. I always pull the ram eggs and put them in meth blue and try to remove and white eggs. Still never any luck. I've had better with golds and electric but not really with midnight. Its very frusturating indeed I recently lose 2 out of my 3 black ram pairs for an unknown reason and Im trying to keep my last pair alive and running.