The Angel Lovers Thread

i cant think · Mar 4, 2022

Aparker2005 said:
Is a bellus compatible with the following?

Powder Blue Tang
One spot foxface
Fairy, flasher, mellanaurus wrasse
Clowns
Firefish
Bangai cardinals

We're looking at adding a bellus angel as our last fish to our 125. Thanks!

I’d be cautious adding the bellus in after the PBT is established. Personally I don’t recommend adding any fish in after an aggressive Acanthurus/Zebrasoma/Prionurus tank is added.

MONTANTK · Mar 8, 2022

Well woke up to a dead flameback Angel. Feeling a little defeated because it was doing so well when I added it but yesterday it was acting very strange. Haven’t had a lot of luck with new fish lately so I’m probably going to wait a while before adding anything else.

blaxsun · Mar 11, 2022

I thought I'd share my Lamarck's angelfish - one of the most peaceful and graceful fish in my aquarium. Took this with my new Sony A6400, and while I'm still playing around with the settings I thought this wasn't too bad for just randomly clicking away with the 18-135mm zoom lens.

i cant think · Mar 11, 2022

blaxsun said:
I thought I'd share my Lamarck's angelfish - one of the most peaceful and graceful fish in my aquarium. Took this with my new Sony A6400, and while I'm still playing around with the settings I thought this wasn't too bad for just randomly clicking away with the 18-135mm zoom lens.

I’d love one but with an established G. melanospilos that I can’t figure out what gender it is, because it’s not reverting completely but not completely got the male colours it would be hard. Beautiful specimen you have! I assume female?

blaxsun · Mar 11, 2022

i cant think said:
I’d love one but with an established G. melanospilos that I can’t figure out what gender it is, because it’s not reverting completely but not completely got the male colours it would be hard. Beautiful specimen you have! I assume female?

Thank-you. Yes, female. I picked her up locally from a reefer that was shutting down their tank. She joined a pair of dwarf midnight and coral beauty angelfishes and a juvenile emperor angelfish.

tyryfin · Mar 18, 2022

Finally coming out after 3 weeks of hiding

Andresnyc93 · Mar 18, 2022

This is Tiger, he’s the most well behaved fish in the tank and is always nipping at the rocks for sponges and pods.

MONTANTK · Mar 18, 2022

tyryfin said:
Finally coming out after 3 weeks of hiding

That’s a beautiful fish! 3 weeks of hiding would stress me out. Where did you get it?

tyryfin · Mar 19, 2022

MONTANTK said:
That’s a beautiful fish! 3 weeks of hiding would stress me out. Where did you get it?

Got it from Jeremy @ Modern AquatiX. Not sure where he got it. It was one of 3 captive bred that he brought in. It definitely added a few gray hairs

Greg Gdowski · Mar 23, 2022

I have a hard time getting good pictures of mine.

i cant think · Mar 24, 2022

Greg Gdowski said:
I have a hard time getting good pictures of mine.

Do you have a female to get the nice streamers?

MONTANTK · Mar 28, 2022

A few pics of my newly acquired Cherub. Sadly the flameback didn’t make it. This Cherub is about the size of a quarter. TINY but doing well so far.

Acropora52 · Mar 28, 2022

Couple pics of my captive bluelines from poma labs... Matt does a fantastic job with these fish and I got a pair that hang out together. Eating flake from day one and just amazing, healthy fish.

As well as my imperator because he was looking at me

And one of the flame

Greg Gdowski · Mar 28, 2022

i cant think said:
Do you have a female to get the nice streamers?

I don’t know. But they are very long.

Bkatz1 · Apr 3, 2022

We have a majestic, a flame, and a lemon peel. All model citizens @ellies_reef

thumbsy · Apr 26, 2022

Here's a quick pic of my 4" regal.

I'm guessing female, and I'd like to try a pair. Has anyone put a 2-3" juvenile in with a female and had them pair up? I'm worried there will be allot of aggression before she changes to male. Or should I try to find a larger male?

i cant think · Apr 27, 2022

thumbsy said:
Here's a quick pic of my 4" regal.

I'm guessing female, and I'd like to try a pair. Has anyone put a 2-3" juvenile in with a female and had them pair up? I'm worried there will be allot of aggression before she changes to male. Or should I try to find a larger male?

I’d add a younger female, the larger of the two would transition to male 4” doesn’t sound like it would be a female to me, how long has it been in the tank?

thumbsy · Apr 27, 2022

I've had it for about 6 months, but for a bit in the beginning I had another regal with it (with an egg crate divider) that I believe was a male.
He was the same size, but had a much larger gill spike and his body was a bit longer and not so rounded.

Has anyone else tried pairing a larger female with a juvenile? I don't mind having a divider in the tank for a bit, but they're such slow growers I don't want to have it up for a year.