Angelfish Buddies: Some GREAT Tank Mates for Your Angelfish! 

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I love this “buddy series” concept. Thank you! 🥺💕

Have a single Angel in a planted 29g. He's about 5yrs old and the size of my hand. He continues to do very well. Lots of personality. I think the key is to find fish that live at different levels in the tank. I've tried a few things with him. Black neons are great, cardinals great. I've also got Hillstream loaches in there. I know an odd combo, but the loaches are happy and spawning right now. He has no interest in them whatsoever. The tank is 18" tall, The angel tends to reside middle level. The tetras are all over, the loaches are usually at the bottom or on the tank wall.

Im upgrading from a 30g to a 55g for the Angels. Right now my the Angels are in with cherry barbs, a redtail shark and 1 lonely Albano Cory. They all get along great together.

Love this series!! It's super helpful. I currently have a huge angel pair in my 150 with a pair of severums, salvinis, and schools or Rainbow fish and Cory's. They're all getting along super well but having the bigger space was definitely needed now that they're adults.

Love these ideas. I have to agree my angels with a school of the big Congo tetras have been an awesome combo.

Happy Monday! This is a very relevant video for me since I'm looking to do this exact thing this week hooray Thank you!

I love her smile 😍

Thanks for the information

Good picks for sure

You both are awesome people!

Great video; I’ve tried most of those suggestions in the past/present. I did try putting my Pinoy blue angel in with my Severums in my 125, and the Severums were having none of it. I then moved the angel over to my 55 with 5 redhead Geos, 8 peppered Corys and a bristlenose and everything’s been perfect there since.

Love your videos! I lucked out by raising a blue gourami with a silver angel fish.

I finally got a betta ❤️🙏 I went to my LFS & 1 called out to me & said rescue me from this tiny cup!! So I did lol I’d already had a tank cycling for about 5 weeks (w/Malaysian trumpet snails & a few plants) it read zero nitrite, zero ammonia for a week straight & no nitrates to speak of ❤️ so I grabbed up this lonely little fish 😍❤️💖🐠🐌🪴

Hi I keep lots of angels I keep them with discus, with uarus , severums, tetras, flagtails, silver dollars, blue Acará, festivum and severums Great channel!

you guys are soo cute stahp lol :D So far we have cory's and a bristlenose pleco and it's working well. Want to ad more of the same but we just got a 75 gallon tank. If geophagus get along with corys and plecos i would love some of them. So many cool ideas, Thanks for the awesome content.

great video and happy monday

I just got four angles for the first time a couple weeks ago they look so nice

Great stuff!!!! I've kept Angels and Goldfish many times without a problem, easy peazy!

Last month you gave me some wonderful advice about my 45 gallon hex tank ( yes I am a lucky chick. I got mine off of craigslist with a beautiful matching wood cabinet for 20 bucks!!! One of the best things I've ever done in my life!!) And you gave me advice about angel buddies for that exact tank! 😎😎😎😎😎

I have platies in with my Angels, along with Bristlenose. Heavily planted 180 with snails and a bunch of Mopani. Everyone is happy and spawning/breeding. There's also one fat ember tetra that got moved when we took down my son's tank. The platies are nice because the fry are enrichment for the Angels, and the Angels keep the Platy population from getting out of control.

Love this video. My angel “Godzilla” loved 10 years with us and we just lost him. He ate all his buddies when he was young - hence the name , but was so happy and long lived as a solo in a beautiful tank. He liked all the attention. Now to consider what next. Thanks for all the ideas for possible buddies. Maybe my next one will be more of an angel than a Godzilla!

Happy happy Monday guys!! I love these buddies series 💗 Thanks for how you always tell us everything that we need to consider when choosing our buddies for our fish!! Great video, great fish, and always the most beautiful tanks😍 Thanks for being our buddies 🤣🥰 and helping us be successful!! I'm always interested in what can be buddies with Bettas and nano fish ... Cories are always my number one Buddy's in my fish tanks!! I also really enjoy the community tank that I set up for my daughter.. CPDs, Daisy Rice fish, pygmy cories, Guppies, mystery snails and shrimp.. there's a lot of activity and fun to watch!! The worst mistake in my beginning fishkeeping journey on buddies that didn't work.. I had a whole school of albino Cory's in a 75 gallon, I went to the fish store and found the most beautiful juvenile African cichlids.. I only bought them for their beauty and had no idea what types of fish these were until it was too late 😭 Thank goodness I found you guys , so I don't have to live and learn with those mistakes anymore! Have a wonderful day and much love always 🙏🌿🐟🌿💚 PS.. what a surprise to see you guys on OFR Friday night I'm usually lurking... But it was a lot of fun to see Jason hanging out!! I hope you all had a great time in Ohio!!!

Nice!

Hi Jason, I am big fan of your videos. I know you have masters degrees in 2 fields that I can't remember. I really would like to understand the chemical reactions behind the common aquarium tests, could you possibly make a video on this????

I have 15 cardinal tetras and 4 adult angels in a 55 gallon planted tank and it has worked very well. When people look at the tank they always comment on the beauty of the cardinals in that tank.

Love my angels. I have balloon mollies and ca pack of corys in one of my tanks. Good Times!

Happy frosty Monday. Lots of cool choices there, think I’ll be dropping a few hints for Christmas 🎄

I’ve kept my angels with scissortails rasboras for a while now. They make a great tank mate! I upgraded them from a 40 to a 65 recently and added a school of purple emperor tetras and they’ve eaten all but 7 of the emperor tetras.

Oscars and angels have always worked out great for me. Same goes with blood parrots, electric blue acaras, salvini(mine was probably a huge exception), green terrors(you'd be surprised by how well they go together), firemouths and convicts. Some of the riskier tankmates that I've seen work out are red devils, vieja melanura, arowanas and channa barca. Edit: I forgot to add goldfish. I live in a tropical country and goldfish here are bred at the ambient temperature so that's not an issue. But my dad, who introduced me to the hobby very early on, loved this combination.

I have some glo tetras and wow there getting along with my angels 😅

You two are great, it was awesome getting to meet you at aquashella.

Sir, My Angelfish and Heart shape blood parrot fish are best friends from 2 months now. Sometimes I doubt about their friendship 😅 because of their lovely gesture with one another. My Heart shape Parrot always protects my Angelfish and resembles they may breed 😂😂😂

I keep 4 angels in a 125 with neons, blood fins, Cory’s, guppies, bristle nose, pearl and dwarf gourami, female bettas, platies and a cobalt blue parrot. Busy tank!

Great video as always! I do have a mixed of angelfish, clown loaches, bristlenose pleco, and goldfish and so far they're doing well. Planning to add at least 3 more fish and I'm open for any suggestions. Thanks!

Great video, Fairly new to fish keeping. Bout 9 months in. I’ve got 5 angels 2 lots of them have paired and lay on opposite sides of the tank bristlnose breeding pair doesn’t corys and Platys. How good are Platys they are so active in the tank and colourful. Backing it as the most underrated fish. They breed so easily too!!

Howdy 🤠 happy Monday is my no work day 😊

I had Lake Kutubu rainbowfish with my angel, along with black neon tetras, lemon tetras, panda corys, and a pair of bristlenose plecos.

I've kept Pt. Santa Isabel, they grew quite large ( 30 cm)... I' ve kept them with Rummy nose, Cardinals and Gasteropelecus. Worked very well. Watch out for small Corydoras, I found one in the mouth of one of my Angelfish. What works well ( and a little bit smaller then regular Geophagus) with me are Biotodoma. At the moment I keep Pt altums with Discus together with the previous mentioned ditter fish. Small remark... in my opinion the C. Sterbaï is a perfect mate... large enough and not that timid.

I've got torbedo barbs aka Roseline sharks like in the hatchet tank you showed

I have a 47 tall that I have 2 angels and a pair of Bolivian rams along with some cories and some tetra - heavily planted. The angels stay toward the top and the rams stay at the bottom. It works great.

I have rainbows with mine. Working well

I'm working thanksgiving day is all good get holiday pay 😊 I can buy more fish stuff ☺️

🤔🤔🤔Blue Acara, Electric Blue Acara, Threadfin Acara, Rainbow Cichlids, spotted and striped Raphael Catfish, Emerald and Panda Cory catfish, mollies, Platies and smaller plecos species. All have worked well with my Angel fish and my Discus.

I have 10 Denison barbs (roseline shark), 3 red tapajos geo, gold severum, red shoulder severum, electric blue acara, Venezuelan & emerald cories, lemon yellow blue eyed bushy nosed plecos all with 7 egg laying angelfish. No problems. All are from the same area lakes/rivers with the exception of the roseline sharks (their color is great). Congo tetras are another solid choice.

Giant Danios couldddd work but for me they get a little aggressive during feeding time and when hungry overall. When the Angels are bigger I don't doubt some of the danios may go missing.

Just had 2 brand new Marine land Penguin 350 filters arrive, putting them on my cycling 70 I'm setting up. I've used most every HOB filter there is over 30 years fishkeeping. I didn't realize how very good these are until just 2 years ago. Got a Penguin 200 for a snail/ crayfish tank. Do what this video says, you'll have a clean, clear, well filtered tank.

Dwarf cichlids are good buddies too 😉

Happy Monday! Nice video, and I definitely agree with your list! I really like how you guys give lots of amazing aquarium information that really helps fellow fishkeepers. I actually have an aquarist coll@b that I'm going to do, and I'm wondering if you want to be in it. If you want to, just let me know. Happy fishkeeping!! 😃👍🐠🐟🐡

Due to my 55 gallon leaking, I had to move my fish into my 75 gallon. I already had 5 full grown angels, a full grown turquoise severum and full grown gold severum, 2 red shoulder severum juveniles, a rainbow shark, 2 Dennison barbs and 2 sail fin plecos. Out of the 55 gallon I had to add 2 electric blue acara, 2 geophadus tapajos and 2 geophagus altifrons with 4 full grown silver dollars. Also had to add a firemouth that had no where else to go. Needless to say the tank is way overstocked but with the turquoise severum in charge no aggression present. I have 4 angels, 2 red spotted severums ready to move and 4 Dennison barbs in a grow out tank. Just bought a 36 gallon bow front aquarium I am going to use for all 8 angels and evaluate from there. I am a 72 year old female so resealing the 55 has to wait until I can get some help. Never a dull moment but I am alone so plenty of time to keep cleaning the 75 from the sailfin plecos that are about 10” and 12”. The LFS swore they were bristle nose😂

Angels plus Uaru, Discus, Keyhole Cichlids, FEstivums, geophagus, rams, apisotgramaas, corys, otocinclus, tetras of all types if big enough Diamond, Lemon Serpe, Bleeding Hearts, black Phantom, von Rio, Flame, Cardinals, hatchet fish, Chocolate Ghost Knife Fish, Raphel Catfish (spotted and striped)pea puffers, fresh water flounders (Indian flounders). I've noticed that the botia loaches tend to bother angels by searching them for external parasites even when they have none.

I have two angels in a 55 gallon with a few Corydoras, gourami and danios.. The only problem arises when the angel's spawn and they bully every other fish.. they drove the danios to the bottom of the tank with the Cory's. I'll be moving some fish around soon, get each of the gourami's their own tank. And move the swordtails out if my 40 gallon Corydoras tank they took over.. Angel fish are very nice, but very crazy when spawning and laying eggs.. I got lucky and managed to pick out a breeding pair for my 55 gallon, but it's also something that caught me off guard and I wasn't expecting, especially with the regularity of their spawning patterns.. today being the 5th time they have laid eggs, which I will take out of the tank to reduce the stress of the other fish. Like I mentioned I have danios that swim on the bottom like Corydoras now from being chased by the anything but angel fish..

Congo tetra for the win🎉

I had success with glo danios when they are adults but when they were small they used to be in with older guppies

Good Morning.

I don't know why they are not popular, but Mesonauta Festivus are the perfect Angelfish tank mates.... they live together in the wild, I haven't seen a single video of Angelfish in the wild where there are no Festivus with them. They are so rare to find now... Other fish I recommend with Angelfish are Red Eye Tetras and Lemon Tetras, these are typically not fin nippers at all.

I had a pair of young sibling angels with harlequin rasboras, and as they got bigger they started getting really aggressive...turns out they were M/F. All the rasboras were OK except the youngest who'd already been bullied by the rest. I rehomed the angels and it turns out they have mated! Had to rehome that 45 gallon tank to move, and boy do I miss it.

I've done Danios and that went well. I'm interested in going back to Angels once my 90Gal is freed up enough. Maybe I'll add Electric Blue Acaras.

I keep mine Macanarapu with silvertip tetras, a couple of borelii and panda corys

My angelfish of 9 years died yesterday, he was what got me and my family into the hobby, rip

I HAVE 9 Blue Zebra angels in with Geophagus, Red eye tetras Albino Heckelii and an 8 inch Chocolate cichlid. The Angels are not bothered by any of these and tend to only argue amongst themselves.

I have all tetras and corys and platys with my angels work well. ( congo, columbian, ornate, lemon tetras)

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My angels share their 56 gallon tall with my leopard fish. They are perfect companions

What is your opinion on guppies with angels? Especially when the angels have paired up? Lots of different opinions out there but you guys are my go to trusted opinion! Thanks for all you do!

Great video! Would dwarf cichlids like apistogramma or rams go well with angels? Thanks

I have Electric blue Acara with my Angels. It works well.

I have a tank of 7 angels and 10 peacock gungeons, a school of black neons, Siamese algae eaters, and a dwarf pleco that I cannot remember the name of. Lots of little areas for the small fish to play and hide and the angels don’t bother them at all.

I did Angel's an key hole cichlids. Calmest cichlids ever.

Rummynose tetras are great with Angel fish

I HAVE MY ANGELFISH WITH DISCUS. THEY GET ALONG GREAT TOGETHER

I have never viewed plaque as a serious algae cleaner as they much prefer to eat wood and pieces of dead meat if they can find it. Of course that would also include the odd dead fish if they can find it, but I am great lover of plaque and I do have two in my own aquarium. They make off any aquarium if you can get them at the right size but for a serious algae eater I would suggest Siamese Algae (Crossocheilus oblongus). I do not bother cleaning a lot of algae out of my tank I just leave it to the algae cleaners, I do find that it's more than suffice to keep the levels of algae down. A little piece of goo in the tank helps to keep it right and at a good balance. A sterile tank, is definitely not a healthy tank. I've been keeping tropical fish touching on 30 years, during that time I've kept all kinds of fish including South American Cichlids and African Ciclids. I am now just into what you might call community fish that is angelfish, severins and rainbows, others, to give you an idea of what I'm into. I particularly like my Marbled Headstander which is not often mentioned in any RU-vid videos or channels to do with fish keeping, which I am a big fan of. They do not grow all that large and find they are extremely friendly, they have also got along with other fish I have put them in with though others may have had a different experience.

I have my angels with guppies , black skirt tetras, phantom tetras, Cory cats, and danios

Uaru and electric blue acara co habit with angel’s wonderfully in my 125 gallon.

I keep Zebra Danios with my Platinum Angels along with two Siamese Algae Eaters. Cories and Plecos are a given of course. What doesn't go well with Cories?

I had a chocolate knife fish, 6 marble hatchets, 2 Siamese algae eaters, horse face loach, 4 silver dollars and a beautiful blue Jack Dempsey with 3 angel's in a 75

I used to keep them with flag cichlids and hoplo catfish with no problems at all.

Hi!, Thank you again for all the great content. I just need to know something unrelated to above video. I am new to the hobby. Had a fish tank for a few years, plastic plants and goldfish non heater and kept fish for the beauty there of and not knowing how to really give them the best they deserve. Had fish dying due to me not knowing what I'm doing. Now since April this year I've done many research mostly from your channel and some others what to do. Now I have 10 different size tanks al around my house with real plants and keeping fish in quantities, size tank and according to species rightly together. I have about 200 fish. Now here comes my question to you. I'm getting frustrated a bit due to fish dying every week, one or 2 from different tanks while mostly all other fish seems perfectly normal. I'm doing my best, 50% water changes in all tanks once per week. Cleaning filters(3 per tank) once per month. Air stones and air curtains in all tanks for air flow. Seeing that you also have many tanks is it normal to loose fish once per week from different tanks. Out of 10 tanks I loose about 3-4 fish per week...

I have my paired angels with an electric blue acara, 2 rams, 15 white skirt tetras, 8 colombian tetas and 3 plecos. (90 gal tank) all work fine.

I have Bolivian rams in with my angels at the moment

Micky mouse platy's are awesome looking bright orange

Neons are snacks no matter what size. Stick with black neons if you go that route.

2:33 ugh platys 🤣 why overlooked? they're so dopey lol. they also swim and look like someone who gorged themselves at a buffet and can only waddle about. plus the constant pregs and babies and.... ugh. don't get me wrong, the colors can be beautiful. also realizing right now mollies/platys i'm treating those as the same thing.... but suffice to say, the more streamlined ones are fine. or, if you like a hot air ballon aesthetic. there's no wrong fish if it makes you happy (and is kept in proper conditions/housing.) :)

Hello Jason this is Bethany I'm curious about my brand new 55 gallon freshwater tank fish selection. If you buy all the fish as babies at the same time will they grow happily together and not harm one another. These are the ones we are planning on buying. 1 panda 1 marble & 2 zebra colored Angelfish; 4 Tiger Bards; 6 pictus cats; maybe 2 bala sharks; 2 blue dwarf gouramis; 2 honey dwarf gouramis; 12 cardinal neons; 2 male swordtails; 3 assorted mollies; 4 roseline barbs; 5 spotted corydors; 4 zebra danios; 3 redtail sharks

If you’re looking for other cichlids to pair with Angelfish, I’ve personally had great success with Keyholes and Electric Blue Acaras.

In my 125g there is my Beautiful Rescue Group I still have: 7 Blood parrots in various. Sizes 3 Texas cichlids in 3 sizes (It's like I have mama bear Papa bear baby bear situation 😎😀) 1common pleco medium size (thank goodness for that so far 1 sm Firemouth Although I would love to drop An angelfish and 2 Geophagus Tagajos in there I doubt it's a good idea. I've probably got enough craziness inside that tank. Ironically my medium size Texas cichlid tries to be the tank boss with the fire mouth constantly flaring up at it. Because the tank has no decorations so far just sand and a little bit of gravel and the filters it looks so empty. I know that the fish I have in here will continue to grow assuming that everything remains ok with them🙏 I don't ever want a fish to be nipped at especially a fish with beautiful long trailers.

I keep my Red Amapa angel fish with some geophagus proximus in my 200 gallon

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Myself i have a opaline gourami 10 black neons, 4 glo tetras 2 blue lemon long fin plecos 3 gold tiger plecos and a bunch of baby common bristle nose oh I forgot I also have a few female guppies who school with the tetras all with a angel pair and they don't mind gouramis and angel stay away from each other

I make geophagus tapajos whit angelfish thay are still very young. I will have problems when they grow up? Thanks for your help and your progam

My angels get along great with my silver dollars

What about electric blue acara? They seem pretty laid back

Keyholes. I have them with my angels and they seem to get on swimmingly!

I have a electric blue acara with mine. As a matter of fact I have two eba..

I have a single full grown Angel in a 75 galloon with 6 EBA and 2 bristlenose. So far so good. I have a FX4 that packed with bio media. Do you think I have room to add to the bioload? I wanted to get some a school of rummynose or similar

i have mollys , betta , snails and two corrys with my angels in a 55 gallon. i only have two angels and two plecos

What kind of angel fish was that the blue almost discus fish design looking angel fish

hi I've got lipstick gobies and was wondering if they could go with angelfish. I was wanting to put my gobies in my big tank but I'm not sure if they're compatible.

would a school of glow light tetra, 6 corys and a pair of angels work in a 40 gallon breeder

So I bought neon tetras and 3 other different ones and also a bristle nose but then the next day all where dead 😅😢 I only had 3 angelfish in there about the size of your middle finger and I guess they ate them and spit them out or idk but yeah so now idk what to put with them I will admit the new fish were little but is that why or is there a bigger reason I felt so bad I’m ganna try one of these fish I hope giving there size they won’t kill them🙏🏼💯😤