Angel fish with psittacus

[bbortko]

I wouldn't mind adding a couple of angelfish to my 72x30x25” with:
4 wc geophagus neambi
2 cb red head tapajos
2 cb hoplarcus psittacus
wc l128 pleco
Pink tail chalceus

I can’t find any accounts of angels with psittacus, mine are 9-10 and bicker like an old married couple but ignore every other fish. The wife mentioned the wild caught angels I had before the psittacus and now the wheels are turning. Any experience, or thoughts are appreciated.

thanks

 

[Ansorgii]

I think it depends on the character of your pair. If they ignore the others it could work, angelfish have a very atypical shape aswell, so its likely they arent even perceived as rival Cichlids. I saw them kept with bigger cichlids like crenicichla or oscars, so it can be done, but you can't say for sure without trying.

I personally would worry more about the chalceus, mine were a greedy pain in the A that figured out they can be what piranhas are portrayed as, they would shred angelfish. Even took apart heros, but I think I was an isolated case.

 

[bbortko]

I think it depends on the character of your pair. If they ignore the others it could work, angelfish have a very atypical shape aswell, so its likely they arent even perceived as rival Cichlids. I saw them kept with bigger cichlids like crenicichla or oscars, so it can be done, but you can't say for sure without trying.

I personally would worry more about the chalceus, mine were a greedy pain in the A that figured out they can be what piranhas are portrayed as, they would shred angelfish. Even took apart heros, but I think I was an isolated case.

I’ve seen them with bigger fish as you mentioned but a five minute video doesn’t really say how it worked. My chalceus is only half grown but so far minds his own.

 

[duanes]

One other factor you may want to consider is flow preference.
All the fish you already have prefer a laminar flow and tolerate a fairly rigorous current)
but angels prefer slack water areas.
If you don't already provide rigorous flow, them it probably won' matter.

 

[Ansorgii]

I kept creni with various small fish and Oscars with Guppies and tetras.

The Creni were swimming with angelfish before I bought them, trained on pellets and ignored everything that wasnt shaped like them. They however tore apart a small arowana that had as "similiar" colouration and shape.

The Oscars were trained on pellets aswell and just didnt bother when I added the Guppies, they were curious at first but lost interest soon.

My chalceus were a group of like 20, also cannibalized.

 

[bkfamus]

FWIW, I just pulled a young PTC from a 210 for bullying more mature angels, forcing them to stay lower in the water column.. Angels seem freer now, back up top. May be that my PTC is an a-hole. but figured I'd share..

 

[bbortko]

One other factor you may want to consider is flow preference.
All the fish you already have prefer a laminar flow and tolerate a fairly rigorous current)
but angels prefer slack water areas.
If you don't already provide rigorous flow, them it probably won' matter.

Flow is return from a laguna maxflo 2900(probably around 2000gph after head loss) and a large wavemaker on one end with the overflow on the other end .