Marble Angelfish Breeding

Adult angelfish form breeding pairs and the pair will defend their territory from other angelfish and tankmates.

Marble angelfish breeding.

The eggs are laid on flat fairly vertical surfaces like broad plant leaves flat rockwork or the sides of the aquarium. Angelfish have been successfully bred often in home aquariums. If you choose to buy this type of angelfish be aware that they need at least a 30 gallon fish tank. Like its names suggests it has a black coloring.

Your pair will lay eggs every 7 14 days depending on your water temperature. The babies never made it too long for a variety of reasons and i eventually let the pair go. This is required not only for bigger groups but for a pair of adults. Domestic freshwater angelfish are the result of many years of selective breeding of various color attributes such as background body color stripes spots marbled color orange and black and even operculum gill cover pigmentation.

Try to provide your angelfish with a piece of slate rock positioned vertically in the aquarium or breeding and you ll notice that they ll gravitate toward it very quickly. For the most part the original crosses of wild angelfish were not recorded and confusion between the various species of pterophyllum especially p.