what up fish tank people fishtanktv.com dustin's fishtanks it's Sunday you know
what that means that's right it's species Sunday and I want to do very
special edition because I got my girl Mya June and the mix turf first species
Sunday with her dad so she's all excited about that being that she's 11 days old
and it's puked twice today and I really want to talk about a fish that is near
and dear to my heart and this is angelfish and I want to call Petra
phylum I'll butcher the scientific name these fish absolutely rule I people were
kind of pissed about how I was dissing the cichlids not this fish this is a
cichlid if you look at the way Africa and South America are formed through
like Pangaea at South America kind of fits into that little edge of Africa
cichlids originally from the same area but this is a different type of deal
it's from Amazon they come from all over the Amazon River and then all the
tributaries around it Venezuela Venezuela Brazil - I believe they come I
mean just just straight up from the hobby like you you see like just
angelfish all over the place they've been bred in captivity since 1930 1930s
so many fish you see is probably not wild caught with the exception of
all-time angels this particular I believe she's a girl actually I think
this is a guy excuse me although I'm not sure I've had this fish sweetie when we
moved here 2006 2000 2005 2006 this fish is five years old and his
buddy died not too long ago I was pretty sad about that so you guys saw that
video so I love angelfish I'm not getting anymore until he passes just to
give you some scale that's how big he is spot 125 I just
topped off the other day so it's a pretty decent sized fish excuse me I
originally got this tank set up here in Kentucky I had six angels two two of
those two black ones and then to pearl scale kind of veil tailed they were like
a white color I've got some old pictures on my channel on fish tank TV you can
check those out they're much smaller here's what's up/ok they've been bred in
captivity forever so they're very very Hardy in my opinion um
they'll eat fish that are smaller than them and I wouldn't keep them with
cherry shrimp I do have some big cherry shrimp in here that have made it but
really Hardy just peaceful serene the real tall and skinny kids excuse me in
the Amazon they come from like slow-moving streams that's kind of like
a camouflage they've been bred and captivity for a long time so they're
Hardy but that also means that they don't they breed really well but they've
actually been bred so much in captivity that they no longer have their parenting
instincts so if they like lay eggs they're probably not going to be that
good of parents you guys can argue with me on that I've had them breed this was
pre fish tank TV days I had a big set of Water Sprite over here and a big spread
of water spread over here and at one time I had two sets breeding in here
they would what happens if you want to breed angel Fisher's how you do it you
get you get six of all them all about the same species and then you load your
plan the tank just load it load it load it up I was running heavy co2 at the
time so I had a real low pH they prefer a low pH but they'll survive in pretty
decent pH tons and tons of Water Sprite to the point where they can't see it
I've also got a article on just plants in general for green fish you want to
check out but I learned a lot about it through breeding these guys and what I
did is I just had them real separate so I had like the one on this side and the
one we're breeding over there and they basically couldn't see each other
because there's water sprite floating all
between and that eggs they'd lay on the Amazon swords so really cool fish hit me
up with some questions about him I know I know a ton about I'm I've kept them
for a really long time they come in a lot of varieties I've seen koi I've seen
black-veiled I've seen really long-tailed I've seen short tail I've
seen Ultem ultimania fish if you don't know are like really rare
and kind of hard to hard to get and also really hard to breed and they um they
get really really big they also look really cool so I'm just a big fan of
fish I can't if there's one fish I know a lot about it's probably angelfish I'm
surprised I have known a specie Sunday on him in awhile so hit me up you know
some of you guys are talking about doing Amazon tanks it's not complete without
an angelfish especially when they get big they love to eat blood worms feed
them they eat a little veggies to blood worms are their favourite though they
will eat like a cichlid those eat a ton I keep them with Congo tetras I keep
them with Cory cats I don't know they rock so I asked me some questions hit me
up species Sunday angelfish baby loving it