The first set got along, they were awesome but both died in a tragic heater-stuck-on incident. At that point I only had two tanks and three angels. (90g and 36g) The orange and silver would get along but nether could be put in the same tank as the black. The black eventually died from wounds from trying to find the right combo. the silver and orange had to be split up. I do not know how they died.
I bought 5 baby blacks but ended up fighting as they got older(125g). in the mean time more tanks were added and they were spread out, but could never find a combo that worked. They , like the others before, would fight lip-locked and end up with mouth wounds and die. I believe they have been all male except one from the marbled angels. The 125g community is now my African cichlid tank and from one problem or another. I just lost the another last week in a 16g (last photo). He had to be removed from the 36g. I only have 1 black left in a 36g.(second from last photo---bad pic of the angel) All tank mates have out lived the angels, even in the heater incident only the angels died.
and don't worry about the thread... i love your pictures...also there is a disease in angel fish that causes angel lips to get more and more swollen...until they cannot eat.. that is a possibility..sorry i do not know what the disease is called.. but occasionally we had a couple have it through the years.. and you may have thought it was from the lip locking.. and actually they were spreading it..
