View Full Version : Angelfish tank mates?
lionfish1991
11-25-2006, 6:45 PM
What are some good tank mates for angelfish in a 25gal? And also the tank has no lid so they cant be ones that will jump out?
boofish2
11-25-2006, 6:51 PM
How many angels do you have in there right now?
lionfish1991
11-25-2006, 8:42 PM
2 small ones. and also how big do they have to be to breed?
skeletonhand
11-25-2006, 8:53 PM
I've always heard that you should have 10g of water per angel. I have 2 in my 55g, and I keep them with black skirt tetra's, Columbian tetras, Jumbo neons, danios, and a dwarf gourami. If you have good filtration and do bi-weekly or weekly waterchanges, you could get by with adding a small school of small tetras, or a couple of 2-3 inch fish. If you add the smaller fish now, the Angels won't likely to see them as food when they get bigger.
SKEL
jm1212
11-25-2006, 9:16 PM
25 gallons might be a bit small for 2 angels, but you should be ok if they are around the same size. get a trio of corydoras for the bottom and then a school of 6 larger tetras for the middle and then thats it.
lionfish1991
11-26-2006, 4:09 AM
How big do they have to be to breed?
JuanTamad
11-26-2006, 9:34 AM
Domestic bred Angels can breed as early as 6 months from the time they started swimming. Sizewise, I've seen them breed at a little bigger than a quarter in body size.
25gal is a good size for 2 angels. However, they will get big, so this will limit the bioload available for other fish - like jm1212 said, go for a midwater school of 6-8 tetras or other schooling fish of about 2" length (any smaller they may be eaten, any larger you'll be pushing the bioload) - harlequin rasboras would work well. Then you could get some sort of bottom dweller - maybe 6 small cories (again, about 2") like sterbas, or maybe a single ancistrus or small catfish (4" or so).
punkpook
11-26-2006, 4:31 PM
Angels do get big! I had one that was 4 yrs old, shes since passed on, but she was the biggest angel I had seen in my life. Fins and all, she was bigger than my full grown bloody parrot and my Severum. I have two more angels, and they are getting to be her size too. I've got them in a 30 gal. They were in my 55 gal and I guess thats why they got so big.
jm1212
11-26-2006, 4:37 PM
i have a school of six angel in a 90 gallon tank (two are six inches, 2 are 5 inches, and the other two are pushing 4 1/2) and they live with the tetras and corydoras fine.
you should get a lid BTW
Marinemom
11-28-2006, 1:14 PM
I have two small angels in my 25 with a small school of rummy nose tetras, two otos, and three yo-yo loaches. It has worked out fine for them.
Marinemom
Marinemom
11-28-2006, 2:21 PM
Just don't do hachet fish. They are notorious for jumping to thier death even from the smallest openings. Carpet surfing is just a real bummer.
Marinemom