fizzypopz

How can u tell the estimate age of a Angelfish ?
And how fast(time) do they grow into fully grown Adults ?

capekate

Hello
From what I know, Angel fish reach maturity at about 1 year and the average size then is around 6 inches in size . They are capable of breeding at around 5.5-7 months of age.

~ kate

Tom

Kate is right, the angels take, in the best/largest tank, about a year to get fully grown, and they are able to mate in about 5-7 months after being hatched. The time it takes for them to grow depends on quite a few things;
1) amount you feed them
2) amount of helpful nutrients in the food
3) the size of your tank(the larger the better/faster usually)
4) the amount of water changes, they like clean water and do better in clean water
5) the size of the water change
Those are the only ones that come to mind at the moment, but I hope it helps and answers your question.
Tom

fizzypopz

Thankyou for Reply's

Sabi

My 2c
An adults body size should be around the size of an adult humans hand.

mccreations

6 inches in size......might sound like a silly question but is that measurement the body (minus fins) or would that be from top fin to bottom fin in height?

I saw some GORGEOUS angels at a pet store near here...they were pretty big so I assumed that they were adults. I wanted to buy 2 of them SO bad but our tank certainly isn't big enough for them. They were a tad on the expensive side but worth it in my opinion if I had the right size tank for them!

Melissa

COBettaCouple

We're trying to find a female the size of our male angel, but the biggest one that we've found was $25 and a good bit smaller. They do get expensive as they approach full size, but what fish doesn't, huh?

Sabi

Make sense. I saw adults go for R75 bucks here.

slakey

is it ok to add a pair of angels in a tank with nitrate between 20-80ppm?

It currently has 6 zebra danios, 2 adult male guppies and about 11 juvenile guppies and a pleco at the minute.

The angels would be babie by the way, and I will be moving my male guppies back to smaller tank, and hopefully use some of the juvenile guppies to pay for the angels

Also how are Angels with Corydoras?

Barbrella

Why don't you just lower your nitrates before putting fish in the tank?

Baby angels are very fragile and very well might die with such high nitrates.

Angels are fine with corydoras. But corys can't tolerate those nitrate levels either.

Sabi

I'd advise you to rather lower the nitrates. Do extra partial water changes, hopefully it should go down within a week. What size tank do you have? You are currently 15in full aside from the young guppies. Ya, cories will be o.k with angels unless you have a breeding pair with eggs.

susitna-flower

Slakey, How long has this tank been fully cycled? You are talking about putting them in the 39 g tank?

The Pleco, is it a common? If so your total inches are more like 28, which means you COULD add two angels. I wouldn't try to keep a common pleco in a 39 gallon tank, they get just too big.

If you have a bristlenose that would be better. Corys would be ok with angels, but remember you have to have 3 or more, which would put you a little over on inches (if it IS a bristlenose), but with a regular waterchange schedule, you should be ok. You can get the dwarf corys which still clean the dropped food, but only grow about 1/2 size......

I agree your nitrates are high, to get angels your tank has to be fully cycled, and nitrates should be down to between 5-10....
Vacuum your tank thoroughly, and do 25-50% changes every day till it comes down, it can take a week if they are up as high as 80.

slakey

the fish shop water levels are teh same. and same nitrates in my smaller tank and I've had fish in there for 3months. *small tank has 3 cories, 3 guppies and guppy fry*

The pleco isn't a common one it's name starts with an 'A' and grows to 5inches.
Also about getting the nitrate down should I get a nitrate carbon filter piece and stick it in my filter?