Electric Blue Acara

[Beth777]

wow, that is so sad!

I hatch mine in a 10 gallon tank and they are about 4 weeks old and 3/4 of them are unable to get off the bottom of the tank. They are eating and growing but cannot swim! A few of them are swimming normally and they are starting to look like angels but most of them have no future. :sad: So I will sell my adult angels to anybody who wants some pretty pet angels.

[Beth777]

If you don't mind will you go into some detail about the behavior differences. This is very interesting!

Wild Caught do act deferent. As well as look deferent.

[troy tucker]

What does that mean Troy?

Their behavior is what I mean. Also the slight color or patterns.

[Ken B]

Females are harder to find.
Most angels are hatched in a 1g jar. and don't swim well. but as they grow do ok. As they get over breed. the baby's never do well.

I hatch mine in a 10 gallon tank and they are about 4 weeks old and 3/4 of them are unable to get off the bottom of the tank. They are eating and growing but cannot swim! A few of them are swimming normally and they are starting to look like angels but most of them have no future. :sad: So I will sell my adult angels to anybody who wants some pretty pet angels.

[ptran]

Wild Caught do act deferent. As well as look deferent.

What does that mean Troy?

[JCrizz]

Wild Caught do act deferent. As well as look deferent.

Are we still talking about fish?

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[troy tucker]

Wild Caught do act deferent. As well as look deferent.

[troy tucker]

Females are harder to find.
Most angels are hatched in a 1g jar. and don't swim well. but as they grow do ok. As they get over breed. the baby's never do well.

[ptran]

That makes sense! That is good strategy.

That is my strategy for my Moba tank. I will get them a handsome male when they are ready.

[Ken B]

Keep the females. Sell all the males and buy a wild male for the ladies.

That makes sense! That is good strategy.

[ptran]

Keep the females. Sell all the males and buy a wild male for the ladies.

[Ken B]

Very good point!

Side note: that is why I feel hesitated to buy wc fish because I don't know how old they are. LOL. Besides you have to pay a lot more for them.

Absolutely! But if you buy a fish that is 1/2 to 3/4 grown then you know you have a young adult. WC can be good if you want to introduce new blood into your breeding colonies. I wonder especially with africans just how close these fish are bred. You buy 30 fry from a breeder and they may all be from the same parents. Then you grow them and they start breeding. There has to be a point where the fry are inferior in some way. But I don't know when that might be. But introduce wild caught and you have strengthened the blood lines in the colony. I have an angel spawn and most of the fry are not able to swim correctly. I think this is because the angels are too closely interbred. I will try one more spawn and if I get the same results I will sell all of them and recommend that they not be bred! These are those "blue" angels we were talking about last week.

[troy tucker]

Wild caught

[JCrizz]

Very good point!

Side note: that is why I feel hesitated to buy wc fish because I don't know how old they are. LOL. Besides you have to pay a lot more for them.

wc fish?

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[Beth777]

I always get fish that are small because I hope to have many years with them.

Very good point!

Side note: that is why I feel hesitated to buy wc fish because I don't know how old they are. LOL. Besides you have to pay a lot more for them.