New Fish Tank

[teesuk]

Hi all
hoping someone can help me,just got a second hand fish tank as my angel fish keep breeding and i keep losing the fry,so i am hoping to put the angel fish in this tank, i have just bought a heater of ebay a aqualine i think it already has the air filter. the tank isnt as big as the one i have now so will just use it for the angel fish, i think the measurements are 58x30x30 i was thinking of doing a 50% water change on my other tank to start the new one of will this work.
Any ideas very much appreciated.
Joanne

 

[Dark Wolf]

58x30x30

Cm or inches? If it's cm that tank is roughly only 14 gallons, which is on the small side for one angel, let alone numerous.

How many angel fish do you have?

 

[teesuk]

58x30x30

Cm or inches? If it's cm that tank is roughly only 14 gallons, which is on the small side for one angel, let alone numerous.

How many angel fish do you have?

its cm i have two angel fish male and female.
thanks Joanne

 

[Dark Wolf]

Right, first i'm gonna just say, i'm not having a go at you, or trying to bemean, or insulting to you, or preaching at you, I'm saying this first because, i've had a few people just insult me for telling them a few truths.

Basically the general consensus on this forum is that each angel fish needs roughly 20 gallons, now this is up to the persons discretion, but some believe they can keep them in 15 gallon tanks.

Unfortunately your tank, isn't even 15 gallons, and you have 2 angels. While it looks like they have lots of room, you are stunting their growth which will lead to problems such as illnesses later on.

I have very little knowledge on breeding, and so wouldn't be able to suggest whether or not being in too small a tank affects the breeding chances.

Sorry

 

[Truck]

i agree take them back to your lfs and get some tetras or guppies

 

[rabbut]

OK, 20g should be fine for a breeding pair, so long as it is resonably tall, so unfortunately your new tank is not quite big enough. To raise all the fry, you will need one, mebe two four foot tanks, to acomerdate the fry. Idealy, the parents would be in a 30-40g

You would need to cycle all two/three tanks before adding fish. This involves using ammonia, not adding old water, or leaving them to sit for a few days. See [topic="113861"]here[/topic], for details of fishless cycling.

In the adult tank, 50% twice weekly waterchanges would be adiquate, but more would be better. In the fry tanks you would need a minimum of 50% daily to get good growth rates. After a few months, you can cut this down to weekly. It is important to keep the tanks clean, so algea clean daily (when parents arn't raising young of have eggs) and suck all dirt off the bottom. agin, fry would do best with 80% for the fist few weeks.

To breed angels, you need a bigger set-up than perhaps you realised. Please also note, that the four foot tanks will need to hold the fish for a couple of months to get them to sellable size. Angels breed between fortnighly and monthly, so to keep all broods, yet more tanks are needed

HTH
Rabbut