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Aquarium Co-Op, Could you tell me how you feel about under gravel filters, I see your tank, I've done under gravel for 30 years not knowing the entire world abandoned this years ago, It's all I know, Thank you.
I watched this video before getting my angel babies and its one hundred percent attendance when i grab the vibrabites and they all look away when I grab the flakes 😂
I'm so glad I found this video. I'm planning on revamping my dad's 50 gallon tank. The tank is about as old as the house, so about 20 years. He doesn't really take care of the tank anymore other than the occasional water change and he still feeds them. But the tank is full of algae and and the rocks are covered in algae. He had a group of tetras, two corydoras, and a few danios (I think). So I'm planning to save up the money and redo his tank for his birthday in February. I've been looking at koi angelfish because they're gorgeous. And I'm planning to do a little bit of aquascaping with a piece of driftwood and some moss to make it look like a tree, and maybe some decorative bowls with plants in them.
I could feel the pain in his voice when he said about culling the fry with deformities I'm having a hard time too cause I gave so time in caring for my guppy fry dat I couldn't just kill it... sad
Thanks for sharing Dean. I've just started my 56th year of keeping fish continuously. I have not kept one species of fish for that period. Angels are one of my staples. I have two large marbled pairs in a 55g now. I'm one month into my first salt tank. Checked that off my fish bucket list. Great informational video. Thanks again, I always enjoy your presentations.
This is such a thorough, helpful, relaxing, and generous video! Angels are on my bucket list, hope to have a tank for them in the next six months, and this answered so many of my questions in ways other videos haven't. Look forward to checking out more of Dean's videos to learn from his vast experience! Thank you!
Anytime I see Dean in a video I get excited. He has so much knowledge and experience and shares it in an easy to understand way. Thanks for sharing it with us!
You can safely use whatever you have. I'm not proud of it, but I have used empty sour cream containers and all sorts of stuff. You do not need holes in the bottom, and its actually better if you don't have them. If you want to go natural/dirt in the pots, cover the compost/growing mix or whatever with a solid layer of sand or gravel to keep it from all getting washing out.
I avoided keeping angels despite their obvious iconic attributes because they were so prevalent with so many poor examples in my area. I have been inspired by Dean certainly, but also by the collaboration happening with Dean, Jimmy and Cory (Aquarium Co-op) to keep this fantastic fish. I found this information incredibly helpful to someone who will keep them for a first time and thank you all.
That’s true watching your fish grow is fun I got my read belly piranha when he was only about a few inches and I loved watching him grow and lose his black dots know he’s a big boy
I had kept fish from age 5 to 30. Mostly livebearers. We could never keep Angels alive. Gave away all my tank (close to 20 tanks) and did keep any fish till I turned 39. I got a betta and a khuli loach. Had them in a 2 1/2 gallon tank. Wanted to get them a bigger tank. My BF bought me a 10 gallon for my 40th birthday. Now Im 41 and have 10 tanks. And in my 40 gallon Ive got 2 Angels. I got tgem at about quarter size now they are full grown. Im beyond proud. Ive also managed to breed my Zebra Danios and raise the fry to adulthood. Only ever breed livebears before. I owe alot of the info I learned and added to my years of fish keeping to Irene, Cory and Dean. Thank you for shareing your knowledge and helping people to keep fish better!
@@galsenekovic I didn't say they was full grown when I posted that comment. I got them at dime size and within a year they had grown so much bigger so fast, that's what i meant . I still have two of those angelfish they now are in a 60 gallon and I am getting 4 more this weekend. I'm actually trading my rainbow fish for the angels I'm picking up this weekend .
Nice video 👍got a quick question can i put angel fish in with my mollies ive just moved up to a fluval 200 tank and would like a pair of them tank dimesions are 1000mm x 400mm and 500mm deep
Great video, Cory. Thanks Dean. I would love to hear about the different varieties that Dean has raised. When I started the hot variety was the Black Angel, it appears that the Koi variety is currently the rage. Also my dream fish is a large tank of Altum Angels, I would love to know if Dean has ever had them (or if Cory has) and some of the challenges they overcame with them as I understand that they are believed to be a difficult fish to source and raise.
I really like these fish care guides with Dean. Pretty comprehensive without going too far into “the numbers” and is still easy to follow along. Hope to see more like this in the future. I also like how he mentions the culling aspect of breeding, something that I think a lot of newbies don’t consider until they actually see the fry their fish have produced.
You were "by far" one of the easiest people to listen to! I've tried to listen to other blogs about angelfish & simply couldn't finish due to annoyance. Thank you!
I have a pair of F1 Orinoco Altum Angelfish that paired off out of my group. I have moved them to a 100 Gallon Tank. I put in a breeding cone. There are no other fish in the tank but I would prefer to have a cleanup crew (Cory's maybe)? Is that advisable or should I keep them the only fish in the tank? Thanks. Dani
I have 5 angels in a 60g. not quite fully grown. They are starting to fight so sometimes I wonder if I have too many. I think I have a couple males fighting over one of my females.
Yes you have. 60g is too small for 5 angelfish, especially when the’re forming breeding pairs. Also take note that both males and females fight, their behaviour is the same. Sexing them is pretty much impossible before they spawn.
I have a beautiful adult female angelfish that I've raised from quarter size. She's laying eggs on a leaf in our 29 gal. community tank as I type this comment. She's been laying eggs about every six weeks for several months and she is quite healthy with beautiful color. This is my first experience with an angelfish and I love her. Now, to my question... I'm not particularly interested in a breeding her, but I would like to add another angelfish to the tank. Is it possible to do that without aggression issues and if so, should I add a juvenile or a mature adult?
You could for sure add another angel either juvenile or adult. You will not know about aggression until you try, different angelfish have different temperments and you can't really predict that in advance.
Im always glad to hear when other breeders cull deformities, I absolutely hate seeing people breeding from deformed fish as all that does is lower the standards of fish available for everyone else in the hobby.
I have 3 Angels in a 55 gal community tank. One I had to take out for about one week to treat in my hospital tank. I noticed the other two just paired up and laid eggs when #3 was missing but eggs are no longer around. I just tried to reintroduce 3rd Angel back and male immediately attacked so took them out. Now what do I do? 😧
i use to breed angelfish back in the eighties, in very soft water with a ph-6.4 85 degrees, same as discus, always bread very easy in these conditions. kept then in tall 65 gallon aquariums with a 4 inch sand substrate, with plants.
I have an angelfish, I've had him for maybe a year and a half or two years? Not sure exactly how long but he thrives very well with our community fish. Our community tank is about to upgrade from 20 gallons to 65 gallons, so we're excited to give him a ton more room! He's not too big yet, but he's a sweet boy and he gets really excited around people.
As babies, yes. But they grow pretty fast and they need enough room for that, so make sure to move them to a bigger tank in time. Also consider keeping a bigger group if you can afford a bigger tank. 4 adults will only work if you are lucky enough to get 2 pairs. If you get 1 pair, the other 2 fish are doomed.
Dean is great to listen too and has a wealth of knowledge that can only help us novice fish keepers and I'm sure experts too.thanks Dean and Aquaruim Co-op .
I have two angelfish in a 10 gallon quarantine now, but I don't necessarily want more angelfish babies in there. I don't know if they are male or female. I don't necessarily want more babies in there. What if I put a pictus cat in there? Will he keep the population down if they DO have babies?? Thanks! Love ur vids!! :)
I got them very small in size and once they grew up the first thing they did is form pairs and fight with each other aggressively, not sure how your tank is so peaceful with so many angels…😊
Great info! He mentioned that he's kept and bred them in tanks as small as 10 gallons - were they grown out in that 10 gallon tank? It seems like the majority of adult angels I've seen would struggle to swim upright in a 10 gallon, so I wonder if they were stunted at all OR if they were a smaller variety.
It was actually an experiment that I did years back. I didn't grow them out in the 10 gallon, just moved a pair into the tank to see if they would breed. They did breed but didn't seem very happy in that small of a tank. Too shallow and not enough water volume. So did it work, yes, but I don't practice that now and wouldn't recommend it to others.
