Angelfish Spawning

[Goosedub]

Hey,

I have had these angels for 6-7 months now. They were clearly adults when I go them. I originally purchased 6, all around this size. I was hoping they would pair off. The 2 below have always been around each other. It was 4 angels on one side of the tank and these 2 on the other. I just got rid of 3 of the angels. Now it is these 2 on one side of the tank, and the one angel that is left on the other. I have to assume these 2 are a pair. The issue is, I haven’t seen them spawn once. They haven’t even sniffed at spawning behavior. I really want to breed them because I love this color patter and I think they are awesome. It was my understanding that angels are easy to spawn. Is there something I am not catching here?

Sorry, forgot to add the pic

[SaLtee0ct0pus]

I am not a professional by any means. But I have bred angels before and Severums as well. I have found that they need a flat upright surface to lay the eggs on. I use an upright piece of slate tucked behind some fake plants I have. 
 

This obviously is all depending on if this is a true m/f pair. I can’t tell from the photo but I typically sex them at maturity based on the tube. 

[Goosedub]

They have a large rock and an enormous Amazon sword. What is the tube?

On 3/5/2022 at 7:43 PM, SaLtee0ct0pus said:

 

This obviously is all depending on if this is a true m/f pair. I can’t tell from the photo but I typically sex them at maturity based on the tube. 

 

[SaLtee0ct0pus]

On 3/5/2022 at 9:19 PM, Goosedub said:

They have a large rock and an enormous Amazon sword. What is the tube?

 

Underneath the fish where the eggs and sperm come from. On the males it’s a pointy and narrow tube. On the females it’s short and wide. Usually the tubes will show when fish are ready to breed but some angels have them all the time. 

[Brandon p]

I move my pairs to a 20 gal tank and give them a slate. The at just at the right age maybe a liittle young. I’ll show some pics because ba breeding tank can be simple. I like to use the skates once the my start about every 2.5-4 weeks they should spawn. Sorry about the the tank conditions I had a heart attack bout 9 days ago and in not supposed to lift or Scrub. The first two are just plastic tubs you can see the slate on the left side sort ofthe next is just a 20 gal I just moved this pair today. these two get moved out of this -5 gal back to the 75 after the hatch.these guys do the best but when I was in the hospital there normal 55 had a leak. I moved them and the slate the day I came home and the laid the same day. This one is not ideal because it is my mystery snail breeding tank and l 333 are growing out int there. last is a very messy 75 we’re they pair up. You learn pairs pretty quick. If you give a pair -4-5 weeks and nothing change one out. I find that if I move both and put to new I have less luck. If I have say 2 pairs of double blacks an d northern is producing I change the males to the other tank. Check every day if you think there might be funny business because they will eat the eggs.