Fact 1: Angelfish Can Be Aggressive Dena Edwards, President of The Angelfish Society and an angelfish breeder for 10 years, said she often hears complaints from new angelfish owners about their fish eating other fish. Fact 2: Domestic Angelfish Come in Almost Every Color of the Rainbow With the isolated mutations that have occurred in the aquarium environment over the past 50 years, angelfish come in a wide range of colors to suit nearly every preference.
Fact 5: Introducing Your Angelfish to an Aquarium Will Take Time Angelfish are sensitive to drastic changes in water temperature and quality, so acclimation is the key to successful aquarium introduction. To properly acclimate your angelfish to its new home, Edwards recommends the following: Step 1: Float the bags containing the fish for at least 15 minutes in the tank that will be used as the quarantine tank to ensure the fish inside the bag are adjusted to the water temperature.
This tank should be void of any other fish and be large enough to accommodate your new fish. Step 2: Test the pH of both the bag water and the tank water — the greater the difference in pH, the slower water acclimation. According most experts, the ideal water pH for an angelfish is between 6. When there is a greater than 0. If there is less than 0. When the difference is greater than 0. The additional bioload waste from these angels may be causing ammonia to spike, and in turn, poisoning the fish.
In a tank too small for them, the filtration may be unable to keep up with the bioload. How often do you change the water? Have you been doing water changes after finding dead fish? A dead fish body will also release ammonia into the water, so when you do find a dead fish you should immediately remove the body and change a large amount of the tank water.
Ammonia aside, the size of the tank alone could be stressing the angelfish to death. I would advise you to not put angelfish in this tank. Remove any surviving angelfish, and return them to the store, along with the ones who have died.
And never put a betta and angelfish together. I'm glad to see you removed the betta from this mix. Not only are bettas bad tank mates for angelfish, but they're bad with mollies, too. Last edited: May 15, Click to expand IHaveADogToo said:. Yes, there are dangers to using too much dechlorinator. That stuff is super concentrated, and I've seen gill and skin irritation on fish from using too much. Follow the directions exactly. Adding more "just to be safe" can be dangerous. A little bit goes a long way.
If your test strips are saying there's no chlorine in your tap water, I would stop trusting those strips. There is chlorine in most tap water, and it does need to be treated.
There is also likely chloramine in your tap water, which you probably don't have a test kit for. A dechlorinator will take care of both. No, you don't need to uproot your grass carpet to clean the gravel. Just hover the gravel vac slightly above the grass. High enough to not suck up the grass, but low enough to where it still sucks up the gunk between the grass blades.
I know you won't get all of the debris. The grass itself will help process a good amount of the waste, so it will help.
But think of the grass as secondary, and you performing routine cleanings as primary. What kind of grass is it?
Is it a short grass, like dwarf hairgrass, or something longer? I know PetSmart carries this one grass that can reach 18 inches, but they also carry dwarf hairgrass, which grows to like 3 inches max. I have both kinds one kind in one tank, and the other in a different tank and I've found that I can actually touch the grass with my gravel vac and it doesn't uproot.
Byron Fish Guru Tank of the Month! But there are some other issues here that need addressing, moving forward. You asked about the one angelfish in a columnar 30 gallon Angelfish are by nature shoaling fish that live in small groups; but this requires a much larger tank, and there are other issues I won't get into; I wouldn't normally suggest one angelfish but as you already have it The clown loach must be returned or given away.
This is also a shoaling fish, and a highly social fish that must have a group of at least five. But as they grow to a foot in length, this also means a very much larger tank. Left alone the loach will almost certainly bee highly stressed, which means poor health and likely aggressiveness to other fish. An acidic pH is usually soft water though not always, but this seems likely here given the way the pH lowers. You should re-home the mollies, and the guppies for that matter. All livebearers require moderately hard water for important minerals.
You can check the GH general or total hardness with your municipal water authority, on their website perhaps. No point in a test kit unless you have one already for GH as once you know the source water, you work with that.
Ammonia 2. Nitrite 3. Nitrate tests. Ask the how they are doing the test what they are using as a lot of us here have a good understanding how to interpret the readings from different types of test and therefore can help you understand the results.
If the store is not automatically testing for ammonia I'd be willing to bet that they are using strips. Specifically the ones that do not even include ammonia. I went Through this with a neighbor whose ammonia I tested and the water in the test tube was so dark green it looked black.
Yet petco told him his only problem was pH!!!! Turns out they use strips and their strips don't test ammonia. And you have no ammonia reading. Which most likely means your store is using test strips that are inaccurate and don't even test for ammonia which is one of the most important things to test for!!!
You put two Angelfish in a completely uncycled tank which is also much too small for angels so I'm not really surprised that they passed. I get the impression you're not familiar with the nitrogen cycle if you thought the tank running for 4 days empty was going to prepare it for fish. You should do some research on that before you get any more fish.
What is your ammonia? Then what it is? Either way You need to educate yourself on the nitrogen cycle before doing anything more with living fish Also when did you test the water last? I have seen test strips. They have everything on one test strip and another test strip only has ammonia levels. Not accurate at all. You can't wait four days and then expect your tank to be perfect.
Not at all. Angels are also sensitive to water parameters. Ok and the tank was fishless until yesterday? Then everything would be zero. Every aquarist is expected to keep their tank clean. However, thorough cleaning can harm your angelfish in the long run. Massive and frequent water changes can cause drastic changes in the chemistry and temperature of the water. The resulting stress and shock will affect all the angelfish, and it could kill some or all of them.
A thorough cleaning can destroy this good bacteria, especially if it involves replacing the biological filters. Cycling allows good bacteria that turn ammonia into nitrites which is less toxic to thrive in a tank. Excessive water changes and irregular maintenance routines are normally driven by two primary factors, namely: [2].
If the filter stops working, pollutants will saturate the water. If your fish were happy and healthy when they came from the store, but they keep dying, you can use the following steps to prevent additional deaths:. First of all, you should acclimate all your angelfish before you add them to the tank. You can do this by floating their bags in the tank for half an hour while also adding small amounts of water from the tank into their bags.
This allows them to grow accustomed to the parameters in their new environment, not just the temperature but also the pH and hardness. You can also use the drip method, as described in the following Youtube video:. It would help if you kept all new fish in quarantine before you add them to the water. This gives you time to identify signs of any diseases and parasites they may have. You should also thoroughly scrub every object before adding it to the tank to prevent it from contaminating the water.
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