Marble Angelfish Breeding

Adult angelfish form breeding pairs and the pair will defend their territory from other angelfish and tankmates.

Marble angelfish breeding.

The veil or black veil angelfish is a result of over 40 years of selective breeding. 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. Like its names suggests it has a black coloring. The babies never made it too long for a variety of reasons and i eventually let the pair go.

My pair of blue marble angelfish spawning in my breeding tank. Most strains of angelfish available in the fishkeeping hobby are the result of many decades of selective breeding. For the most part the original crosses of wild angelfish were not recorded and confusion between the various species of pterophyllum especially p. Your pair will lay eggs every 7 14 days depending on your water temperature.

Angelfish have been successfully bred often in home aquariums. 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.