Keeping Angelfish?

[Paul]

Hiya

I would like to put some angelfish in my comminity tank, maybe 3 or 4
but I have heard that they harras smaller fish. Is it a good idea to
put put them in my 55 gallon / 200 litre tank with...

8 x neon tetras
2 x feamle platy
1 x male platy
2 x female guppy
1 x male guppy
1 x plecostumus

Please could you help me on this...

Thanks
Paul

[TYNK 7]

>Subject: Keeping Angelfish?
>From: (Paul)
>Date: 10/4/2004 8:49 AM Central Daylight Time
>Message-id: >
>
>Hiya
>
>I would like to put some angelfish in my comminity tank, maybe 3 or 4
>but I have heard that they harras smaller fish. Is it a good idea to
>put put them in my 55 gallon / 200 litre tank with...
>
>8 x neon tetras
>2 x feamle platy
>1 x male platy
>2 x female guppy
>1 x male guppy
>1 x plecostumus
>
>Please could you help me on this...
>
>Thanks

Hi Paul.
With the fish you have, as long as you start out with small Angelfish, you
should be fine.
The Neons must be full size before ever adding Angelfish, and the Angelfish but
be small, and grow learning that Neons are not food.
The only way to do that is to *only* try it with large, fully grown Neons (1
1/2"), and small (quarter to dime body size-not including fins), and grow them
up together.
Do not feed any type of feeder fish to the Anglefish and they should be fine.
After your Angelfish have grown, if you ever need to replace Neons..they too
must also be fully grown. Otherwise they will be snacks....expensive snacks.

[nuchumYussel]

I would not reccomend adding any agelfish. This is becuase of the
Noeon Tetra. I have nevere kept angles with anything smaller than
gouramis.

Evan Davis

[Dan White]

"Paul" > wrote in message
...
> Hiya
>
> I would like to put some angelfish in my comminity tank, maybe 3 or 4
> but I have heard that they harras smaller fish. Is it a good idea to
> put put them in my 55 gallon / 200 litre tank with...
>

I have a quarter/half dollar angel in with 6 cardinal tetras about 1" long
in a 55 gal tank. The tank is so big relative to the fish size I can't
imagine a real problem. Years ago I had a huge angel in with cardinals in a
29 gal and never saw a problem.

dwhite

[jk]

"Paul" > wrote in message
...
> Hiya
>
> I would like to put some angelfish in my comminity tank, maybe 3 or 4
> but I have heard that they harras smaller fish. Is it a good idea to
> put put them in my 55 gallon / 200 litre tank with...
>
> 8 x neon tetras
> 2 x feamle platy
> 1 x male platy
> 2 x female guppy
> 1 x male guppy
> 1 x plecostumus
>
> Please could you help me on this...
>
> Thanks
> Paul

Aside from the obvious reason of them eating your small fish when they get
bigger, the other issue is that some of the fish will be chomping on your
angels long fins, thus making them stubby and ugly looking.

--
JK Sinrod
Sinrod Stained Glass Studios
www.sinrodstudios.com
Coney Island Memories
www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories

[Eric Gutierrez]

no experience with neon tetras... but I have kept 3-4 small angel fish
(they started at about 1") with relatively the same small fish such as
fancy guppies, mollies, goldfish, 3 swordtails, s.variatus, and 8
archers) in a 100 gal tank.

no problems encountered (harrassment or fin-nipping), they never
bothered anyone in the tank, even when the angels grew to their
current 2". they love the baby pellets I feed them, they always would
want more and follow me across the tank.

newborn fry, of course, was food to almost everyone in the
tank...couldn't get them out in time to save any, even though the tank
is heavily planted with plastic.


eric


(Paul) wrote in message >...
> Hiya
>
> I would like to put some angelfish in my comminity tank, maybe 3 or 4
> but I have heard that they harras smaller fish. Is it a good idea to
> put put them in my 55 gallon / 200 litre tank with...
>
> 8 x neon tetras
> 2 x feamle platy
> 1 x male platy
> 2 x female guppy
> 1 x male guppy
> 1 x plecostumus
>
> Please could you help me on this...
>
> Thanks
> Paul

[TYNK 7]

>Subject: Re: Keeping Angelfish?
>From: (nuchumYussel)
>Date: 10/4/2004 2:34 PM Central Daylight Time
>Message-id: >
>
>I would not reccomend adding any agelfish. This is becuase of the
>Noeon Tetra. I have nevere kept angles with anything smaller than
>gouramis.
>
>Evan Davis
>

I've kept Angelfish with Neons together many times over the past 26 years.
You just have to know the "trick". = )

[david priestley]

hi
i've got to anglefish in my tank with 1 male guppy and 4 females and 3
platys and have had no problems with them at all.
"Paul" > wrote in message
...
> Hiya
>
> I would like to put some angelfish in my comminity tank, maybe 3 or 4
> but I have heard that they harras smaller fish. Is it a good idea to
> put put them in my 55 gallon / 200 litre tank with...
>
> 8 x neon tetras
> 2 x feamle platy
> 1 x male platy
> 2 x female guppy
> 1 x male guppy
> 1 x plecostumus
>
> Please could you help me on this...
>
> Thanks
> Paul

[Dr Engelbert Buxbaum]

Paul wrote:

> Hiya
>
> I would like to put some angelfish in my comminity tank, maybe 3 or 4
> but I have heard that they harras smaller fish. Is it a good idea to
> put put them in my 55 gallon / 200 litre tank with...
>
> 8 x neon tetras
> 2 x feamle platy
> 1 x male platy
> 2 x female guppy
> 1 x male guppy
> 1 x plecostumus

I have kept angels with neon and cardinal tetras in a community tank
without problem. However, guppies would not survive in the tank even for
one night, possibly because they like hard, alkaline water. They were
not eaten, just floating on top, dead.

[Jack B.]

(Paul) wrote in message >...
> Hiya
>
> I would like to put some angelfish in my comminity tank, maybe 3 or 4
> but I have heard that they harras smaller fish. Is it a good idea to
> put put them in my 55 gallon / 200 litre tank with...
>
> 8 x neon tetras
> 2 x feamle platy
> 1 x male platy
> 2 x female guppy
> 1 x male guppy
> 1 x plecostumus
>
> Please could you help me on this...
>
> Thanks
> Paul

I have two large Angels in a tank with 7 Cardinals, no problem. The
angels have spawned twice, though I haven't had the time lately to try
to raise them. I did purchase the Cardinals when the angels were
still fairly small.

RGB

[Mean_Chlorine]

Thusly (Jack B.) Spake Unto All:

Cardinals grow to almost twice the size of neons.
I, personally, wouldn't mix angelfish and neons, IMO it's mainly a
question of WHEN the angelfish will kill and eat the neons. I've seen
angelfish bite neons in half because they were too big to swallow
whole.

[TYNK 7]

>Subject: Re: Keeping Angelfish?
>From: Mean_Chlorine
>Date: 10/11/2004 7:05 PM Central Daylight Time
>Message-id: >
>
>Thusly (Jack B.) Spake Unto All:
>
>Cardinals grow to almost twice the size of neons.
>I, personally, wouldn't mix angelfish and neons, IMO it's mainly a
>question of WHEN the angelfish will kill and eat the neons. I've seen
>angelfish bite neons in half because they were too big to swallow
>whole.
>

I can honestly say that I have kept several batches of Angelfish with full
gorwn Neon schools many times over the years.
I'm talking about quarter body size Angels till they were good sized breeders.
It's all a matter of how you raise them.
It actually makes for quite a gorgeous tank.
Picture in your head....
Black gravel...
Bright green Amazon Sword plants drifting in the current.....
Reddish brown driftwood poking through.
A few stately Angelfish and a school of brightly colored Neons or Cardinals
swimming across the tank.
I've seen this many times, and never get sick of it.