You need altums. Pete just got some jumbo adults from Rio Ventuari. Only $50 a pop. A dozen of them would look really good in your tank.
Switching to Angelfish; Need Some Input
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You need altums. Pete just got some jumbo adults from Rio Ventuari. Only $50 a pop. A dozen of them would look really good in your tank.
altums are def the way to go. but they would only look nice if hes able to keep them alive. or waste a bunch of money for dead fish haha
by the water pete...did you remove your altums and only have the st isabels now?
That's the thing, I don't want to go and spend a couple hundred dollars on some nice altums only to have them die on me for one reason or another, especially considering that I'm not the one who's going to be paying for them rather I'm just doing all the research, setup, and care. Besides, a dozen adult altums seems like a lot of angelfish for a 55 gallon aquarium as I was thinking of doing six adult scalare at max.
I think this is a better approach. You should experience with 5-10 bucks a fish first, before spending hundreds of dollar on those beautiful but expensive altums.
I prefer to get a bunch of sub-adult angels, 3-4 inch TL. Some will grow up well. Some will get sick a long the way. Some will die before reaching adulthood.
By then, when you know how to real well thru trials and errors, and if you still have a passion for it, then go for it.
Yep, I agree, the 55 gallon main tank plus 20 gallon sump is not big enough for more than 6-7 adult angels and other community fish.
Good luck with your project.
Thanks. So should I order more that what I plan on keeping because losses are inevitable or something?
I moved them to another tank...a 93g cube...to live with some I. adoketa. Just looked confusing to have them with the SIs.
You are right. I apologize. 55 is not big enough...altums can actually get to 18" top to bottom so it will have to be a deeper tank too.
I played with some Guyana angels before. Decent shape with red spots. Well, more like brown spots, but fairly good-looking. Only cost about $15 ea.
Oh, wow, I didn't know that altums could get that big; it sounds like they would need a really tall aquarium in order to be happy. I'll look into the Guyana angels, too.
I recently aquired some marble vieltails over in lewisburg pa.....dont know how far from you but theyve got alot of vieltails all sizes really cheap good quality.....their adults were 15$ which in my area pa its hard to find a good quality angel
That's almost four hours away from me, but thanks for the tip anyway. At this point, I think that I'll check a few local places again once the aquarium is ready to go before ordering anything.
Okay, here's what I'm thinking of doing for the livestock:
I figure that stock should give a decent amount of color while making sure that there's activity going on at all levels of the aquarium.
Does that stocklist sound like too many fishes, too few fishes, or just right? It seems to not be too much to me, but I'm always up for other opinions just to play it safe.
- 6x Wild or wild-cross angelfish
- 12x Cochu's blue tetra
- 12x Rummy-nose tetra
- 6x Corydoras catfish (or other similar genera)
- 6x Otoclinus catfish
I figure that stock should give a decent amount of color while making sure that there's activity going on at all levels of the aquarium.
Does that stocklist sound like too many fishes, too few fishes, or just right? It seems to not be too much to me, but I'm always up for other opinions just to play it safe.
