I am wondering would it be safe to breed 2 Angels in a 20g with tankmates, but lots of plants ? And if so, what kind of decorations, plants, gravel, and all that good stuff should I use? If I can't, I will attempt to move my fish and try to breed Convicts in my 20g.
Angelfish breeding q's
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I think it would but ive only gotten my angels to spawn on the marble slates but all the times that the angels got that far they were very aggressive against tank mates and i have a 45 gallon tank and they beat the other fish very badly had to move them to their oun seperate tank.
I have used 29g tanks for just the breeding pair and 55g and larger community tanks but I wasn't trying to raise fry, I sold them off once I had mated pairs.
i think a 20g tank is a little small for a breeding pair of angels
much less with other tank mates
much less with other tank mates
I would think you need a bigger tank without any tankmates...but just a few weeks ago I was at a chinese food restarant they had a 29 gal with a pair of angels spawning on the filter tube,with 4 large goldfish and a big pleco in the tank.I wouldnt give the fry much chance for survival though.
I've seen them done in 20's as young pair. If you use tank mates expect them to be dither fish. You will need danios or something or else the angels will probably eat thier fry anyways.
As soon as the fry start to looklike real fish they are at risk but your 20g will make a great grow out tank if you throw in some elodea or cobomba
fry that grow up with their parents take care of there fry from what i've heard. it's the angels that get board of not defending against anything that eat their eggs. Then as they are smaller angels as guppie said the parents might eat their young if they don't know what they are doing. I would give it a couple times before I called it quits as angels will lay eggs when fry are free swimming.
Yes you can breed them in a 20g. even a 10g is fine. Make sure that you only have them two alone, if there are other fish both angels can become aggressive towards them because they are protecting their eggs/fry. Any plants are fine although they preffer the giant sagittaria also any plant that is from the cryptocoryne species or vallisneria spiralis are ideal. Have a dark background. If they hatch parents will take care of them don't turn lights on and off because parents might get scared and eat the fry. Remember that you will need a larger tank in the future as the fry grows. Have some of the floor bare, there will be less contamination. My angel fish spawned in a plastic broad-leaved plant. Daily water change is required. Angels may even lay the eggs on the aquarium glass.
My angels usually laid on the spiral vals or cryptos if they laid on plants. In the 29g I had a large flat piece of snowflake obsidian standing up on end that most of them used and large pieces of polished tiger eye in the larger tanks tucked into the plants that were popular.