Help me ID my new angels please

I would also say silvers, or a sunset blusher mixed with zebra .. DEF turn your flash OFF. and just use the tank lights , and maybye a bright time of day where you will have some light behind you as well . better pictures will help. but all in all I would still guess silvers . I just see the gold color in the top fin and heads that are in my sunset blushers, and mine the bodys are white. HTH and GL !! IMO < no gravel would not bother a fish . I would belive they are stressed from you chasing them around with that flash !! LOL ~~ try to getthem off gaurd and use the cam with no flash on, so it dosent wash thier color out. very pretty fish you have there ethier way :)
 
Can't really tell due to there coloration right now i think there still getting settled in
my guess would be Altum / Half Black / Zebra but the fins don't look the same
 
My guess is Silvers. I have some that look like that and they also have a pretty blue undertone to them. I got mine from Born2lovefish and was told that the ones I got come from 25% wild blood parents. Anyway, just meant to say that silvers can have the blue undertone as all 5 of mine have it and it is really pretty.
 
Any newer pics of them settled? I am going to go with silvers as well.
 
They are not zebra, and do not have any blushing genes (and a sunst blusher would be a double dose gold with two stripelss genes- which is WAY off) and they are not altums. I am 99.9% sure they are silvers (AKA wild type, expressed as +/+ in genetic code).

I can see the confusion becasue their stripes are washed out - they are obviously stressed in the pictures.

I guess they COULD be non-expressing half blacks, or have a hidden single dose of halfblack genes but I doubt it. There is no reason to assume a fish that expresses silver has half black genetics unless you are specifically told they do- becasue those fish will demand a premium over silvers, so the seller is sure to tell you.

Most angles that are silver toned (zebra, smokey, silver, ghosts, blue blushers which are simply silvers with two stripeless genes- not a blue gene) have blue highlights in their dorsal fins, ventral fins, sometimes on their gill plates and crowns.
 
It actually seems to me that the more stressed they are, the darker their stripes are. So far they've laid and partially raised 2 batches of fry and when I'm nose to nose with the tank or doing a water change, their bottom fins go almost pure black and their stripes darken considerably vs if i'm just chilling BY the tank and there's no fry in there that they're trying to protect.
 
When spawning they will darken, or rather their stripes get really really sharp when they are protecting eggs or fry. That's not stress- that's agression! They do tend to be fearless when protecting their young. I have a pair with 6 week old offspring that are already dime sized and their mom with try and tear me up everytime I come near the tank. Once they are comfortable in their new home, they're not afraid of you one teeny bit.

The stripes will fade when they are stressed or spooked or unhappy with their water.
 
Hmmm.... They remind me of my Blue Angels... Actually besides the size they are almost exactly the same as my female Blue Angel. I belive that mine is Called a Electric Blue Angelfish...Silver I think he said... I'm going to look into that.
 
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I am sticking with silvers.
 
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