Damage to angels - cause ?

[anewbie]

I have 5 male and 1 female angelfish all several years old. Recently they have been getting rather beat up. At first I thought they were doing it to themselves but now i'm not sure. Population include 6 L204; 3 BN (1 f 2 m); 6 clown loaches; 10 zebra loaches; 2 or 3 yoyo loaches; some sterbai dithers.

The angel show no skittishness around the loaches in the morning when i feed them and the loaches come out and eat with them. Nor do they show any skittishness around the female bn or L204 (i've not seen them around the male bn which hangs out in the very back). I did have one female angelfish die today but there were no marks on here - the other female angelfish has a few but not too many marks. The largest male only has one mark. Not sure why the female died she was 4 years old - and was alpha female so none of hte angels bothered her.

[Ken Burke]

Sorry for your loss.  Angelfish are the pride of my 38g.  
 

when I first got them I had a yo-yo loach and a dojo loach. When they started playing with the angelfish, they got a new home.  
 

I would not worry about the bn, but the loaches would gimme pause….

[anewbie]

I've not noticed any direct interaction between the loaches and my angels during the day - so if it happens it happens at night. In the morning when i feed the angels the loaches come out and the angels show no shyness around them.