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?
Angelfish tank mates?
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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.
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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).
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.