Angel Fish In My Community Tank?

[windhopper]

I was wondering if i could put angel fish into my tank? Its 30 gal and has some minnows and guppies. I dont really know what size angel fish will grow to or how aggressive they can be. Would they be suitable in this tank setup?

 

[Truck]

angels grow to about 8 inches max average is 6 but they can get bigger. if you put angels in your tank the minnows will definatly disapear but the guppies maybe ok but they will have there fins picked at and may be eaten.

IMO for a tank this size there best off being kept as a single species set-up.

 

[windhopper]

angels grow to about 8 inches max average is 6 but they can get bigger. if you put angels in your tank the minnows will definatly disapear but the guppies maybe ok but they will have there fins picked at and may be eaten.

IMO for a tank this size there best off being kept as a single species set-up.

If you dont ask you never learn, thanks for the info

 

[Truck]

no worries mate

 

[waterdrop]

In my opinion, a 28G, 29G or 30G in the taller type configuration is an adequate tank for a pair of angels. It has to be the type that is at least 17" tall, which is the height of many of these tanks. If you have a different sort of 30G that is lower, then it won't work. You could probably get away with counting each angel as 6" of fish body, leaving you another 16" of so of stocking for a 30G possibly. Angels are among the cichlids which are unpredictable in nipping behaviour, some individuals being quite passive and other individual specimens being potentially quite aggressive -- almost impossible to know their personality until they've been established in the tank for a while. Small angels raised among the same community tank inhabitants will often leave their tankmates alone even after they are quite large.

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[Dick Callahan]

I was wondering if i could put angel fish into my tank? Its 30 gal and has some minnows and guppies. I don't really know what size angel fish will grow to or how aggressive they can be. Would they be suitable in this tank setup?

This is from a newbie, Dick C. I had Anglefish way back when I had them years ago. Angle fish get along better by themselves. With guppies they will eat the baby's. Guppies will have that good purpose for those Angles because they require live meals to grown normally. I guarantee you they will be eaten every time they come out from the females at birth time. The Angle love them.
By the way, Angle are found to be a joy to have as they are beautiful and in the right conditions they cab be bred, They are difficult to breed from as it take several time before they become mature enough to raise there own.

I was wondering if i could put angel fish into my tank? Its 30 gal and has some minnows and guppies. I don't really know what size angel fish will grow to or how aggressive they can be. Would they be suitable in this tank setup?

This is from a newbie, Dick C. I had Anglefish way back when I had them years ago. Angle fish get along better by themselves. With guppies they will eat the baby's. Guppies will have that good purpose for those Angles because they require live meals to grown normally. I guarantee you they will be eaten every time they come out from the females at birth time. The Angle love them.
By the way, Angle are found to be a joy to have as they are beautiful and in the right conditions they cab be bred, They are difficult to breed from as it take several time before they become mature enough to raise there own.

An added question of my own is in order. Since I have no acquaintances yet on this forum I will use this to get it in.

As a new member I have a question, which was my original purpose of getting onto this group. I plan on staying on as it seems to be a good forum. My question is.
I have a small bathtub converted pond which is stocked goldfish. Each year I take these little guys to the local pond and let them go to forage for themselves. getting replacements in the spring time. The frozen tub pond during New England's winters are the reason for this. A pond I let them go in allows them to be inactive and possibly survive the winters. These of course are feeder goldfish, for a dime each.
I feed them standard type Guppies during the summer months. No need to go further on that.
Last year I started withe several guppies from the pet shop. All summer long they bred the small fry being eater by the goldfish with a few surviving. I placed these this fall in a fifteen gallon tank with heater and a decent display and the are doing greatly.
In this bunch I noticed a new variety, not like any others in the tank. It looks so much like a mosquito fish but is marked differently. The markings are barbed and strangely up and down in a sequence I have never seen. This one fish is doing greatly and gets along with the others, but is ignored by the male guppies. They do not associated looking for the females, so therefore it is not a female guppy?
Question.
How do I find out what I have? It is so much smaller then the others and very slow growing.
Cordially, Dick C.

 

[waterdrop]

I was wondering if i could put angel fish into my tank? Its 30 gal and has some minnows and guppies. I don't really know what size angel fish will grow to or how aggressive they can be. Would they be suitable in this tank setup?

This is from a newbie, Dick C. I had Anglefish way back when I had them years ago. Angle fish get along better by themselves. With guppies they will eat the baby's. Guppies will have that good purpose for those Angles because they require live meals to grown normally. I guarantee you they will be eaten every time they come out from the females at birth time. The Angle love them.
By the way, Angle are found to be a joy to have as they are beautiful and in the right conditions they cab be bred, They are difficult to breed from as it take several time before they become mature enough to raise there own.

I was wondering if i could put angel fish into my tank? Its 30 gal and has some minnows and guppies. I don't really know what size angel fish will grow to or how aggressive they can be. Would they be suitable in this tank setup?

This is from a newbie, Dick C. I had Anglefish way back when I had them years ago. Angle fish get along better by themselves. With guppies they will eat the baby's. Guppies will have that good purpose for those Angles because they require live meals to grown normally. I guarantee you they will be eaten every time they come out from the females at birth time. The Angle love them.
By the way, Angle are found to be a joy to have as they are beautiful and in the right conditions they cab be bred, They are difficult to breed from as it take several time before they become mature enough to raise there own.

An added question of my own is in order. Since I have no acquaintances yet on this forum I will use this to get it in.

As a new member I have a question, which was my original purpose of getting onto this group. I plan on staying on as it seems to be a good forum. My question is.
I have a small bathtub converted pond which is stocked goldfish. Each year I take these little guys to the local pond and let them go to forage for themselves. getting replacements in the spring time. The frozen tub pond during New England's winters are the reason for this. A pond I let them go in allows them to be inactive and possibly survive the winters. These of course are feeder goldfish, for a dime each.
I feed them standard type Guppies during the summer months. No need to go further on that.
Last year I started withe several guppies from the pet shop. All summer long they bred the small fry being eater by the goldfish with a few surviving. I placed these this fall in a fifteen gallon tank with heater and a decent display and the are doing greatly.
In this bunch I noticed a new variety, not like any others in the tank. It looks so much like a mosquito fish but is marked differently. The markings are barbed and strangely up and down in a sequence I have never seen. This one fish is doing greatly and gets along with the others, but is ignored by the male guppies. They do not associated looking for the females, so therefore it is not a female guppy?
Question.
How do I find out what I have? It is so much smaller then the others and very slow growing.
Cordially, Dick C.

Don't know the answer, but for starters you may want to try and figure out all the ins and outs of a good digital photo or several of the specimen and post it up to see what members think... somewhere in the pinned topics of one of the other forums there are lots of tips from the folks who know all the camera stuff I think, ~~waterdrop~~

 

[Truck]

guppies are the most easily sexed species of fish.

look at their anal fins, the males have an apendage called a gonopodium, its like a sword on the anal fin, whereas the females will just have a normla fan shaped anal fin

 

[Dick Callahan]

I was wondering if i could put angel fish into my tank? Its 30 gal and has some minnows and guppies. I don't really know what size angel fish will grow to or how aggressive they can be. Would they be suitable in this tank setup?

This is from a newbie, Dick C. I had Anglefish way back when I had them years ago. Angle fish get along better by themselves. With guppies they will eat the baby's. Guppies will have that good purpose for those Angles because they require live meals to grown normally. I guarantee you they will be eaten every time they come out from the females at birth time. The Angle love them.
By the way, Angle are found to be a joy to have as they are beautiful and in the right conditions they cab be bred, They are difficult to breed from as it take several time before they become mature enough to raise there own.

I was wondering if i could put angel fish into my tank? Its 30 gal and has some minnows and guppies. I don't really know what size angel fish will grow to or how aggressive they can be. Would they be suitable in this tank setup?

This is from a newbie, Dick C. I had Anglefish way back when I had them years ago. Angle fish get along better by themselves. With guppies they will eat the baby's. Guppies will have that good purpose for those Angles because they require live meals to grown normally. I guarantee you they will be eaten every time they come out from the females at birth time. The Angle love them.
By the way, Angle are found to be a joy to have as they are beautiful and in the right conditions they cab be bred, They are difficult to breed from as it take several time before they become mature enough to raise there own.

An added question of my own is in order. Since I have no acquaintances yet on this forum I will use this to get it in.

As a new member I have a question, which was my original purpose of getting onto this group. I plan on staying on as it seems to be a good forum. My question is.
I have a small bathtub converted pond which is stocked goldfish. Each year I take these little guys to the local pond and let them go to forage for themselves. getting replacements in the spring time. The frozen tub pond during New England's winters are the reason for this. A pond I let them go in allows them to be inactive and possibly survive the winters. These of course are feeder goldfish, for a dime each.
I feed them standard type Guppies during the summer months. No need to go further on that.
Last year I started withe several guppies from the pet shop. All summer long they bred the small fry being eater by the goldfish with a few surviving. I placed these this fall in a fifteen gallon tank with heater and a decent display and the are doing greatly.
In this bunch I noticed a new variety, not like any others in the tank. It looks so much like a mosquito fish but is marked differently. The markings are barbed and strangely up and down in a sequence I have never seen. This one fish is doing greatly and gets along with the others, but is ignored by the male guppies. They do not associated looking for the females, so therefore it is not a female guppy?
Question.
How do I find out what I have? It is so much smaller then the others and very slow growing.
Cordially, Dick C.

Don't know the answer, but for starters you may want to try and figure out all the ins and outs of a good digital photo or several of the specimen and post it up to see what members think... somewhere in the pinned topics of one of the other forums there are lots of tips from the folks who know all the camera stuff I think, ~~waterdrop~~

From Dick C.
I have thought of your suggestion. I went down to the tank to take a shot but this little guy is so hard to find and does not stay still long enough. Also the glass has a mirrored effect. Will have to place something behind to get rid of that reflection. I will give you suggestion a try. Thanks.

 

[waterdrop]

Yes, the shots get a lot better when you separate the flash from the camera and hold it directly over the tank (top removed) or even fancier, the pros use slave lights firing from the tank sides and sometimes from the back through a diffuser its like shooting models in a fashion magazine!

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[pippoodle]

i wouldnt keep angels and minnows together - i adopted a minnow from an angel tank that only had one eye and no tail , she was originally from a group of 10 and she was the only one who survived - took the angels 3 weeks to wipe the others out

that minnow is now happily breeding and now has a tail again

 

[paul_219]

What i know is that guppies and angel dont go together even if the angel is small.

 

[waterdrop]

Yes, on a serious note, looking back at my posts I should probably quit joking around and agree with Paul - its highly likely both the minnows and guppies would get eaten. This answer is more directly helpful to the OP.

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