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information angel fish2007-11-24 23:37:09

hello all!

i hav an empty fish tank (due to an unfortionate accident :(, but thats a diffrent story) anyway the tank measures 24 x 13 x 11 i do not hav a heater or a filter or anything yet, but basically i want to raise a few angelfish, i need every peice of information u hav got lol, like how many 2 kep in my tank, do i need a heater/filter ect

all information is greatly appreciated!

Answers:

A 14 gallon tank is not really big enough to raise angels. They need deeper water and room to swim. You also need to put tall plants in so they have somewhere to hide.

I wouldn't put more than 3 or 4 at the most in that small of a tank. Good filtration will be a must. Use a filter with about 100 gph (gallons per hour) throughput. Put it on the back (not the side) of the tank so the inflow current is only at one end of the tank. Angels do not like currents in their tanks. They come from slow sluggish streams and tributaries of the Amazon.

One will become dominant and the others will need places to go where he can't see them. Plants, tall decorations are good.

They are south American cichlids and need temps around 78-80 degrees with a pH in the range of 6.5 to 7.2. In the wild, they live in very soft water (around 6.5) but the tank raised fish we get now are OK in the range I mentioned.

If your tap water is higher than 7.2 pH, put a ball of peat moss in the filter for a week or two at first when you get them so the pH will start low and then remove it when the fish have become accustomed to the slowly rising pH. Try to find out what the pH of the fish store tanks is and try to match it for the first couple weeks until they acclimate to your water.