Marble Angelfish Breeding

Try to provide your angelfish with a piece of slate rock positioned vertically in the aquarium or breeding and you ll notice that they ll gravitate toward it very quickly.

Marble angelfish breeding.

My pair of blue marble angelfish spawning in my breeding tank. Adult angelfish form breeding pairs and the pair will defend their territory from other angelfish and tankmates. Like its names suggests it has a black coloring. This is required not only for bigger groups but for a pair of adults.

Your pair will lay eggs every 7 14 days depending on your water temperature. If you choose to buy this type of angelfish be aware that they need at least a 30 gallon fish tank. Most strains of angelfish available in the fishkeeping hobby are the result of many decades of selective breeding. The babies never made it too long for a variety of reasons and i eventually let the pair go.

Domestic freshwater angelfish are the result of many years of selective breeding of various color attributes such as background body color stripes spots marbled color orange and black and even operculum gill cover pigmentation. For the most part the original crosses of wild angelfish were not recorded and confusion between the various species of pterophyllum especially p.