angelfish

I have 4 juveniles in a tank with the adult, what are the chances that I'll get at least a pair out of the 5 fish.

Thanks in advance
 
I have not had any spawn under 4 inches and that is rare. Usually they are fully grown when they spawn-5 inches.
 
mine are about a year old (three inches), and laying eggs like crazy. The tank I have them in now is too high in KH and the calcium causes the eggs to harden before they are fertilized so I don' tneed to worry about a bunch of babies (yet).

Your chances of a mating pair are pretty good Tom, and once you determine who the pair is, I recommend moving the others out because it can get pretty crazy once the breeding aggression starts up and the parents start chasing everyone else away.
 
When a pair forms they will be moved to a 20 gallon high by themselves and possibly some danios that are in the 20 right now.

Thanks for the replys
 
If you want the fry to survive you should take out the danios. Angels usually don't like other fish in the tank when they spawn and it may cause them to eat the eggs. It is unusual for fry to survive when other fish, esp. fast fish like the danios, are present.
Yes, they usually spawn when they are about one year old. At one year old they are usually full grown or close to it, 4 to 5 inches without fins.
 
My angels began spawning a month or so after I got them at quarter size. Even now, after two pairs spawning 3 times each, the largest angel is maybe 3 inches in body size. The female in the first pair can't be larger than 2-2.5 inches in body size.
 
Add behavior in my spawning pair

This thread seems perfect for my question. (Trying to follow OrionGirl's advice.Sticky)
We aquired a pair of adult angels several weeks ago. It was obvious from the beginning that they were paired. The aggressive spawning activity forced us to move our four juvanile angles to another tank. Now the mature pair share a fifty five gallon with two swords, a butterfly and one botia. What we think is the male, dug a hole in the gravel under a plant and lays there and plays dead. The other one bugs it so badly that it seems to have no other choice. It does come up to feed, then shortly returns to its corner.

Is this normal behavoir...:confused:
 
henpecked

Sounds to me like you have classic aggression avoidance behavior. I do not think such a stressed fish could live very long in those circumstances and suggest you separate them. If you really think they are a pair you can reintroduce them from time to time, but that level of aggression needs to be dealt with.
 
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