Angelfish Moments

Well I figured I'd start a journal of my angels - right now from egg to adult. Right now I have one breeding pair, two adult females (two different tanks, so they are not a pair, nor do they like each other).

The breeding pair - low-medium orange coverage koi angels Ringleader and Tamer, they just recently spawned this morning for their fourth time. Their first batch was a surprise that I first saw as wigglers, they made it to free swimming then mom and dad ate them..their second batch I pulled as wigglers into a separate tank, a resulting issue with dragonfly larvae left everyone but one baby dead, he sadly didn't make it the night after being moved. Their third batch is currently in free swimming, happy-go-lucky eating all the brine shrimp mode (they also had an issue, but this time a heater failure that killed all but seven, three of those died over the day of me getting them another heater, they were in a tub in a warmed tank, not left in the cold) - they are currently 16 days old.
The gold girl - adult female that surprised me with a batch of eggs that she got a little frustrated over them turning white and finished them off. Very pretty girl, a little shy but greets me when I walk over.
The third gal out - she lived with the pair before they paired up and had to be removed to avoid harm coming to her, she is a pretty little standard koi that doesn't pick fights unless they are bigger than her.
The trio - my mixed blue babies I have left (I sold most of them and the lady that got them accidentally managed to kill all of her angels, plus the others I sold her, when she knocked a surge protector off and it unplugged the heater, I feel really bad for that but am glad I kept one of each color now), I have a blue zebra, a blue marble, and a blue black (has striped gene, you can see the stripes when it swims as it is not a DD black) that are siblings - they show very little blue but have a nice purple-blue sheen at just about all times when I look at them.
The four survivors - these are my current batch of koi babies, the survivors of heater malfunction and being put in a convalescent home in a warm tank to prevent them from dying from cold, they range from really dark looking to almost no black, the two in between just have black caps and spots of black along their bodies. These guys are still small, not yet showing classic angelfish looks, nor color. These guys were the ones I expected to lose from the whole batch as they grew, they have surprised me with how tough they are.
BS/BSPS group - these are my blue smoky and blue smoky pearlscale babies that I got in. All of them have pearlscale genes, just about half of them are showing (so have two doses of pearlscale genes) - they were very pale and shy when they came in but have strong smoky coloring and greet me every morning with a shimmy dance that they have learned from the trio (basically "feed me feed me").

This concludes all angelfish that I have, now for pictures of some of them.

Ringleader and Tamer with their first spawn, RL is a combtail veil and Tamer is the standard.

The odd one out of my koi adults.

The gold girl, with her surprise eggs.

The survivors, huddle up for the night (they ran away from the light when I tried to take a picture..so they kind of messed up the picture...)

This was my group of blue mix babies, most in the picture are zebra/striped and marble - you cannot see the black ones as they pretty much blend in in this tank, I feel really bad that all but three of these babies are dead..

 

Thanks for sharing I hope that the remaining babies make it all the way to adulthood for you!!!!!

 

Adding a new member, platinum (?) pearscale - seems to fit right in the with smoky group. (Pictures during acclimation.)




Edit: it seems to have three paler white stripes when viewed under some light.

 

The surviving four have small visible fins! (the largest of the group has the largest fins, the others are a little less defined but definitely there!)

 

I have lost my blue black and blue zebra angels, now only my blue marble is left, but that seems okay. The baby kois are cute, the two largest have yellow noses and are just over a month old, they are between pea and baby lima bean size - they eat like pigs but seem to enjoy the extra food.
Everyone else is looking good, I'm looking at getting a mate for the gold girl and actually selling the koi pair (to free up space that way I only have one pair at a time).

 

I am down to two of the koi babies and man are they stunning, right now I'm calling them Phantom and Opera though they both have the "half mask" going on with black on one side of their faces. Opera has a clear ventral and a white ventral (which freaked me out today because I thought it only had one ventral). They both look to be veil fins and Phantom is doing a good impression of their father (I have since sold the parents as they kept eating their eggs for no understandable reason, they will be missed!). They love crushed snails a little too much (first thing they go after instead of their actual food...). I need to get pictures of them as they are quite fetching, they are nickel sized or a little larger.

 

Phantom and Opera have gotten to quarter sized and got upgraded to live with the bigger angels. I got in five adult angels (would have been six but the night before I went to get them one jumped from the lidless tank to its death sadly it was one half of one pair), a koi male, a pinoy male, a paraiba female (second pair that was trying to pair with the pinoy, they have a tank to themselves now), a smokey male (not blue, but kinda bland, but was showing a breeding tube when he was placed with my gold female, probably from the pinoy and paraiba trying to pair up with so many other males around), and a pearlscale marble male (believe it to be platinum marble, the only pearlscale in the group). I forgot to get pictures but they are stunning for sure.
My "blushing" angelfish seems to be a paraiba blushing (with purpleish patches rather than the normal blue) and seems to be growing well (veil/superveil possibly combtail) faster than my others. Bit of a bully though, I had to move it because it's longer fins had become a target.

 

Where are the pics of phantom and opera!!! I gotta see these beauties!

 

Phantom hates the camera so he is in the background, he looks strikingly similar to dad as far as color (and fins! gonna be a combtail), Opera kept running around right in front going 'I can't see mom, I can't see, oh there'. Plus pictures of four of the five I got yesterday.


Opera up front, phantom is in the back of the second picture, he dashed off when I tried to focus on him behind the driftwood...

Pinoy (looks almost black in pictures, my camera/phone sucks)

Paraiba, she is showing a breeding tube and they were cleaning off their rocks last night around 2 am lol.

Smokey, he was so pale last night he looked like the paraiba but now has regained his color.

And a butt shot because I deleted his other picture because I was trying to shoot Bluster not him lol, he is very nice about medium coverage with a couple orange iridescent patches on his sides. I just wish his partner wouldn't have jumped from the tank the day before I got them...(she was lower coverage and still nice)

 

I am so upset, I moved Phantom and Opera into a hospital tank last night because they were looking bet up - they both passed on me- I am going to bury them under the apple tree that way they have a memorial marker. They were close to quarter size I'm not sure what went wrong.
I lost three of the five I got, all males, the only two I have left are the paraiba (she is too spiteful to die..) and the pearlscale marble (he is in a tank with Bluster, the low grade koi, and the platinum pearlscale), I lost the pinoy this morning (he was moved from the tank into a hospital tank because something was going wrong and I don't know what - he had excessive slime coat and looked cloudy = not like a fungus but like he had a whiteish covering that was not bacterial or fungus) I am draining that tank and getting it a large sponge filter to run on it as opposed to a hob filter.
I just feel like crying this morning, I did start when I saw my babies dead because that was upsetting after getting them to that size and so friendly.

 

Sorry for your losses! That really sucks. Hopefully thing's go upwards for you from here on out.

 

So sorry for your losses! that is one hard day, and I hope things get better for you! <hugs>

 

So sorry for your losses! that is one hard day, and I hope things get better for you! <hugs>

More like a hard week, I just haven't had any luck this week (other than the cory I received yesterday from Platylover he recovered from shipping nicely and ate this morning with the others), I probably lost 200+ fish (mostly fry or baby plecos - both angelfish spawns I had are gone, and the massive die off of baby plecos due to a filter malfunction, plus the five angels three of which were adult males to really unknown causes) this week which is highly upsetting but I likely would have lost many more if my mom hadn't swooped in with a line from a neighbor (real nice older lady, she let us run power from her front porch to keep the tanks running/heated/etc. because the power went out) I likely would have lost all my tropicals because it got cold (well the guppies would have been fine, as would the shrimp, but just about everyone else likely would have died on me, which would have probably put me at another 100 dead fish if that had happened). So i'm thankful for her stepping up to save them though getting everything plugged back up where it was supposed to be was a definite chore (I had to start in one room systematically unplugging and plugging tanks back in, the longest a tank was not running was 5 minutes tops), but thankfully I haven't lost anyone else.

 

Oh no... I'm so sorry. That's really horrible. May they swim and peace. Hopefully that'll be all the bad that happens with you and your fish for at least the rest of the year.
*Virtual hug*

 

I'm so sorry! I was very distraught when I lost the blue snail, I know it had to be so difficult to lose so many! Plus with the electric problems my goodness! I really and truly hope things look up for you!

 

Thank you all for the sympathies, everything else seems good so far (my guppies are happily goofing around and the other angels I have seem to be doing well *knock on wood* so hopefully everything stays stable - though I'm going to be changing most of my hob filters to sponge that way I don't have to worry about the ones that need to be primed after the power goes).

 

Yes that's one of the reasons I switched from my AC. (Second to noise and flow). I have rural electricity and we lose power if the wind changes course. My canister cranks right back up if it loses power. Great for my peace of mind.
Also glad the Cory is doing well. I got the albino from platylover! Lol. He/she is doing great with the littles. They are making me consider upgrading!

 

Sorry for your losses.