Help With Angles

[thefishykid]

i bough 4 angles and i would like to breed them only thing every one i have spoken to doesnt know how to sex them. they all say put them in a tank when they pair they will nest and sucsess. i want to know how many do you buy before you know there sex or could i end up with all male or female fish help and adise on this would be helpfull

i bough 4 angles and i would like to breed them only thing every one i have spoken to doesnt know how to sex them. they all say put them in a tank when they pair they will nest and sucsess. i want to know how many do you buy before you know there sex or could i end up with all male or female fish help and adise on this would be helpfullno angel helpers on tonight???

 

[Tolak]

Before you consider breeding them, figure out what you are going to do with 300+ angels. With 4 angels I think you have somewhere around an 87% chance of having at least 1 male & 1 female. Sex can't be determined until they spawn and breeding tubes are present.

 

[BigC]

And after 30+ years keeping tropical fish I now discover that Angels (Pterophyllum scalare) are Livebearers.
You learn something new every day.

 

[Weaver]

If you want to know about angels spawning and breeding there is a pinned article in the new world cichlid section which should be of some use to you.

 

[juliehainsworth]

I was always told that to sex angels you have to look at they're tails, the males have a fine elongation at the top and bottom on they're tail where as the femails dont. I found that way of sexing to work as I once had a pair of angels about (8 years ago) which did spawn a couple of times in my community tank but they kept being disturbed by the other fish and so ate they're eggs!

In the end I decided to get rid of the angels as they weren't what I wanted in my community tank after all they had a tendancy to bite the heads off my young platy's when I released them in the tank!

Hope this is of some help to you