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How To Take Care Of Your Little Angels?

Angelfish have been popular for a long time, and new strains are still being developed. Wild-caught fish are also widely available. Angelfish are cichlids, which means they can be aggressive, territorial, and predatory. They also have some demanding requirements for space, water conditions, and diet. Angelfish require space to establish and hold territory. You can keep one Angelfish in a relatively small aquarium, but they will do a lot better in a group of five or more in a bigger tank. You should provide 10 gallons of water for one adult,  Angelfish . If you consider keeping Angelfish, locally bred fish are a good choice. They are usually already acclimated to your tap water and probably are available at your local fish store. There is a growing number of “basement breeders” all over the country who bring their fish to the store for sale. This will save you a lot of time and money if you are just starting with Angelfish . Wild-caught fish are harder to get acclimated to dif

Angelfish - Fry Diet

Angelfish fry has been successfully raised on a diet of newly hatched Brine shrimp (napulii) for the first 4 weeks of their lives and fed two to four times daily.  After that, they were gradually introduced to a mixture of finely powdered Angelfish flakes and powdered dried blood worms with an occasional (twice a week) feeding of baby brine shrimp.  When their bodies are about the size of a quarter, they may be fed Guppy fry. An easy way to provide this very nutritious food is to keep pregnant guppies in the same tank as the young Angels, and the rest is up to nature.  Of course, feedings of other varied foods are needed to round out the diet. The author conducted an experiment and got 6 quarter-sized Angelfish from a large tank of like-sized Angels and put them in a 10-gallon tank with a sponge filter and Water Sprite.  They were free-fed guppy fry and twice a day received any combination of Angelfish flakes, frozen bloodworms, frozen brine shrimp, and dried worms for 4 weeks. At th