Top Fin Colouration Of An Angel Fish

[fozzy_wozzy_woo]

I have a short and quick question about my angel fish.

I have had my angels for around 4 days now and have seen that they are getting all their coluration now. when i purchased the fish they were the normal silver and black stripes.

now the stripes have really gone dark but i have now noticed that some of the angels have a blood red colouration to the out edge of the top fin, running from the body to the tip of the fin. i presume this is normal but does it identify a condition of the fish?. e.g does it suggesst the fish are happy? or male /female? ready to breed?

Etc..

thanks

 

[saboy]

I think from what your describing is that the angelfish is stressed, they get that colour when stressed

 

[Tolak]

Angels tend to color up better when happy. Stressed silvers can practically lose their stripes. Well conditioned content breeding pairs of silvers have incredible definition of the stripes, as well as an irridescence that I find nearly impossible to capture with my cheap digital camera.

As long as the coloration is not along the body where the dorsal meets the body it is probably natural coloration. A picture would help to confirm this. I have some silvers I'm working with that have a nice deep orange to the crown, it's something that isn't found too often. At times there are slight color variations to silvers.

If the redness runs alongthe body where the dorsal attaches, it's something to look into, perhaps the beginning of septicemia. One again, a pic would help.

 

[fozzy_wozzy_woo]

Well thanks for the two replies,

I will try and get a photo, but as you said a cheap digital doesn’t help. but i don’t think it is stress as the black lines are really deep in colour and the red is only on the top 1/3 of the dorsal fin. it is more of a burgundy red,

So I was thinking it had something to do with a difference between males and females in this type of silver. These angels are not wild although they do have 4 black stripes.

The Not so LFS did have wild Angels in the shop but at €25 per fish i didn’t want to get them. I will wait for my Juwel corner 450 aquarium that will house just Wild Angels and Cory’s and lots of long plants.

I have also seen that the red does go away when they do get scared.

After 5 days now they are starting to fight a bit to get their territories and gather a partner. But I still think they are to young to do this as they are all still juveniles. They didn’t fight when they first went in the tank and the full colouration wasn’t their as I said until day 4. There are 9 (was 10 but 1 committed suicide by working its way into my power jet) in a tank that is 2m x 50cm x 70cm so the tank isn’t too small.

Here is an edited picture to show where the red colouration is

 

[Tolak]

It's normal coloration, & a nice looking angel as well. I've noticed that sort of fin coloration tends to fade a little as they get older. Here's a pic of a tank of juvies from a couple years back, I'm guessing they are around 8 weeks old;

 

[fozzy_wozzy_woo]

you got it in one... ha ha ... my fish ar ok...well except for the one that got trapped. he has now lost in a day the two long things that hang doen and a part of his bottom fin... it looks like a fungis now so i have put him in my medical tank.. hope he makes it. I found him trapped and i had to free him.