JAXON777

heres a pic the tank is still a little cloudy as I dumbly poured another bag of ECO in a few days later (what a mess that was). There isnt gonna be much to this tank I kinda like how it is with just the two swords.

Tex Gal

That's not a lot of plant matter for filtering.... Looks kinda lonely to me. What about a small insignificant foreground plant?

supersmirky

chain sword?? That would fill the whole tank in no time

JAXON777

Thanks for the comments. This tank is gonna be my do nothing tank that house my Large fish from my 100 gallon (5 hand sized angels) and 20-30 serpae tetras. The tank is so deep that I am not gonna do a foreground. My other tank is high maintence so I am not looking for that with this one. But as you know these tanks never stay the same no matter how hard you try LOL.

JAX

stuckintexas

just plug some glosso and let it go...it shouldn't take much maintenance. maybe some of that huge HM you have would look nice. doesnt elaine trianda look good? or UG? don't know how tough those are because I haven't tried them. anyway, good deal on such a large tank.

Tex Gal

How deep is your tank? Surely there are things that would work, like smaller crypts, dwarf sag, mosses, pellia...

JAXON777

Here is an update on the tank. Added the 5 black angels to the tank last week and I noticed that one of the bigger angels was hiding amongst the leaves of the large sword. Well tonight I noticed that two of them have paired off and have laid eggs on one of the large leafs of the same sword. Not knowing that much about angels I decided to catch the other three angels and add them back to there old tank. Is it true that the pair will try and kill of any other angels that get near the nest? This is crazy as I wanted this tank to house them all and they go off and mate. Nature go figure.. Any help/experiences about the subject would be great.

Thanks
JAX

BryceM

I have five angels in a 46g bowfront. There are two pair and an "odd-man-out". I've had two different spawns going on opposite sides of the tank at the same time. The fish beat each other up a little but killing each other would be unusual. Angelfish do have varying personalities though. I have too many fish for this tank I know. Three of them will be leaving soon.

stuckintexas

a tank that large, they should be fine. yea, the pair will defend their turf but they shouldnt kill the other fish. one good way to divide up the tank and create territories is to plant it heavier. i know that is not what you wanna do so...if you keep all 5 of them in there then there will be more stress on all of the fish. another thing you will find is that the parents might eat the eggs because they are afraid of the other fish eating them. dont know if you wanna raise fry, if you do then you can always throw a piece of slate up against the tank wall and they may lay eggs there. then remove the slate and well there are many more details past this point. what im saying is you will have a higher success rate if you pull the eggs from the parents and put in a jar or small tank.

but to answer your question, i doubt you will get any dead angels if you leave 5 in that large tank. maybe some battle scars but no death unless you have a super weak fish. i would change my plans and add more plants and that will lessen the fight frequency.

Tex Gal

The other thing that more plants will do, besides make the fish feel more secure is provide insuforia for your baby fry. They'll be able to eat it off and around the plants. If you use slow growers then you won't have a lot of work...