| A very popular aquarium fish is the freshwater | | | | this can result in early death. Angelfish cannot |
| angelfish. This fish originated from South America | | | | determine when to stop eating and will swiftly |
| from the Amazon River. They belong to the family | | | | become inactive and die. They are generally |
| Cichlidae as they are shaped like a cichlid, flat, laterally | | | | aggressive and will eat smaller fish so if you have a |
| compressed with round bodies and triangular fins. The | | | | very aggressive angelfish then they need to be |
| striped angelfish use the stripes for camouflage when | | | | separated from the rest of your fish. However for |
| in rivers. Freshwater angelfish can be very aggressive | | | | the most part the freshwater angelfish tend to be |
| and are predators as they consume smaller fish. | | | | peaceful as long as their family is not threatened. |
| They are also very family oriented and will rear their | | | | Most of the angelfish found in aquariums have been |
| children. Standard and veiled fin angelfish are available. | | | | breed for that purpose. Unlike the wild angelfish, |
| The main reasons for the freshwater angelfish | | | | there is the danger that tank angelfish will eat their |
| popularity are for their behavior, unique shape and | | | | young as bred angelfish lose the natural parenting |
| color. Pterophyllum scalare is the most common | | | | ability. It can also be tricky to figure out when the |
| species of angelfish used for aquariums. However | | | | fish are ready to breed or in fact which fish is male |
| sometimes you can find a Pterophllum altum. An | | | | or female. When angelfish mate they mate for life |
| extremely rare species is the Pterophyllum leopoldi, | | | | and will not 'remarry' if their partner dies. |
| but it has been found once or twice, as they are the | | | | Albino, black ghost, pearl scale, black hybrid, marble, |
| rarest type of angelfish available. Angelfish like slightly | | | | gold marble, ghost, silver gold marble, blue blushing, |
| acidic water and your aquarium water should have a | | | | leopard, koi, sunset blushing, half black, chocolate, |
| pH of 7 at the maximum. They also prefer warm | | | | smokey, zebra lace, black lace, zebra, gold, and wild |
| water and 80 degrees is about the perfect | | | | type of all common colors for angelfish though most |
| temperature. | | | | of these colors came about for specific cross breeds. |
| You should angelfish a mix of live, flaky and frozen | | | | The mutations that produced new colors were |
| fish food and take care not to overfeed them as | | | | selected and expanded on. |