Babies at the meeting?

[Canadian Man]

No I am not asking if I can bring my babies to the meeting as I don't have any(human babies).
But what I am asking/offering is Angelfish babies (yes fresh water kind).
This is what takes up the other half of my basement is my angel breeding tanks.
So let me know if anyones wants some, few, lots.

They come from great parents that display wonderful non common characteristics(bob please check spelling of last word ;) ) such as red/orange eyes as they get bigger.

Anyways let me know as I have so many they are starting to take over the world!!! no just their tank.

[ 02 May 2002, 22:28: Message edited by: Canadian Man ]

[AJ_77]

Wish I had need of some, Jon, but there is only one small FW tank -10g- in the whole house.

And with any luck, that will be converted over some day!

Good luck with those - are you running out of retailers?

[Delphinus]

How do angels do in a community tank? I thought maybe angels need to be in by themselves?

[Canadian Man]

Alan;
no problem, just putting the option out for people.

Tony;
They do quite well in a comunity setting with most other fish even tiger barbs.

Not running out of retaillers just letting my fellow aquarium lovers the first pick of the stud's as per say!

[fishnut]

Originally posted by delphinus:
How do angels do in a community tank? I thought maybe angels need to be in by themselves?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Angelfish are cichlids, after all, and tend to become aggressive towards their tankmates at spawning time.

Since angelfish have long flowing fins, they are not good tankmates for fin-nippers, which will harass them.

[StirCrazy]

delphinus

I keep my angels in comunity tanks.. althought they are cichlids they are dosile and NORMALY only become agressive when a pair is spawning.
Tiger barbs are hit and miss with them.. personaly I wouldent mix them with barbs but other have had success. I just picked up a couple of festivums and my angels were being a bit crankey but they got over it after a day, now they are best of friends.

Steve

[Canadian Man]

To furthur explaine my first response.
I used to have 5 barbs in with my angels.
My angels started to have eggs.
so i took almost everything out.
Now in my angel tank there is the pair, a clown loach, a bumblebee gobie, and two ottocats.

[Bob I]

Yes Jon, I have no trouble with the spelling of that word. Now to business. I have my old 33 sitting in my living room. The chances of selling it are very low, so my only other choice is to toss it into the garbage bin. It would probably make a fine specimen tank. The only problem is that I have no substrate, or plants. I just have some (not a lot ) of lava rock. I can get a bag of chicken grit on Monday, but even so I could not get the tank cycled by Tuesday. Should I go ahead?? :confused:

[Canadian Man]

BOB
Angels are an interesting fish, reason i say this is that you can do a 100% water change every 2 days and the fish are extremely healthy.
In most of my breeding tanks i have no filtration i just do a 25 to 50% wc every 2 days.
My larger/ready to ship/go angel's are in a 33g. I have a canister(eheim2213) on there and feed 3 times a day very heavily. Oh and there are currently 100 or so quarter to loonie sized fish in this tank.
I would go for it if you want. let me know how many you want. :D

Ps; i wish we would have discussed this yesterday as i threw out a full 5g bucket of plants from my tank. They grow too quick! oh well there will always be more.

[ 04 May 2002, 11:58: Message edited by: Canadian Man ]

[Canadian Man]

That will work out fine Bob.
If you eventually want let's say a breeding pair then i would put 6 in a 33g and you should have 1 to 2 pair(male/female)
I wouldnt go with more than 6 in a 33 for full size.
I will bring to the meeting.