Freshwater Angelfish Care Guide

Опубликовано: 22 Март 2025
на канале: Chris with Palmer Aquatics

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Freshwater Angelfish tank size is a huge variable. My guide on Angelfish aquarium Care is easy to understand. These fish are super easy to look after and even breed. Angelfish have been close to my heart for a very long time. These are the dried cubes I talk about in the video. The fish love absolutely love them.

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So i've used blasting sand from tractor supply very successfully for a planted tank. Looking to do white sand this time around and not break the bank, need about 150lb's worth for a 125g mbuna tank. Ive seen the playsand from lowes and it looks yellowish..looking to go white or that white/black cichlid sand mix. Any suggestions?

Looks good, thanks! ill check it out. I actually clicked your profile on accident and it posted a video you put in the gfroup awhile back, on how to clean the sand. You used Quikrete all purpose medium sand. Yup! That's it, between $5-$8 a bag. Rinses out pretty quick and looks good. Mine are planted so eventually get darker over time because I cap my soil with it. My cichlid tank sands has always looked that way though. One of my favs besides the axolotls.
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Angelfish care in aquariums is super easy. you really nailed the look i wanted in the first two pictures. Caribsea is charging 60 per 50lb. Id rather do this.. So pool sand from menards and the regular thicker black blasting sand from TSC right? I find that the filters that sit on the bottom make more noise than the ones that stick to the side of the tank, because you can point the outlet tube towards the wall of the tank to break up the gurgling bubbles.
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I couldn't stand the noise it made (both the bubbles - which can be fixed by rigging in an airstone, and the pump which I had in a closed cabinet on a towel). I switched to a powerhead with a sponge on the intake and never looked back.

They are tough and hard to get rid of.i had it in my 20 long.i took everything out rinsed,dried it out and that was how I got rid of them.the mistake I made was I kept the gravel,I rinse it with tap water and put it in a tote and left it on my back porch for a month.i being cheap took that gravel and put it in my 100 gal and guess what,2 weeks later,worms swimming around.so then I had to sanitize the 100 gal and threw out the gravel.yes had to cycle my tank 3 times.

Supposedly they can come on a crustacean as some kind of intermediate host, but I'm not sure. Typically they come inside already infected fish. Once the worms are protruding from the fish's vents it means female worms are laying/casting off eggs which will settle in the substrate, hatch and infect more fish as they pick through the substrate and eat them.

The fish might have been infected for a very long time and slowly passing the infection - it can take forever to notice if the infection is mild. These worms don't lay dormant though - so if you ran an empty tank for months they won't survive without a host. The article I posted below claims that one of her sources says that frozen tubifex worms can actually transmit the parasite - so that MAY be a possibility. I actually learned something new in it too - her method of making medicated food is really cool! When I tried Febendazole with my infestation it didn't work, but her recipe looks promising.

She talks about dosing in the article and how her first treatment with Fish Bendazole didn't work. Febendazole occasionally will help buy time and IF you can get them to eat enough of it may slowly cure them, but since levamisole is absorbed from the water it's the best treatment. Does anybody here use marineland canister filters? I've used them for my filters for a very long time but I'm upgrading to a canister and would like to stick to the same brand. (Just how I am.) Are the canisters any good?

Angelfish aquarium care Guide.

I'm wanting to put it on my 55 with a small oscar and a couple of gold fish that I'm moving to another tank and 2 catfish. I was looking into the one for the 55 but considering the one that goes up to 100gal. You could just buy a air compressor and use a regulator. The bigger the compressor the better. You could probbly make it olny kick in once a day or two for 300 bucks. But noisy as hell.

Hahahah its a sweetwater s11 blower. Has a 1” outlet. Different setup than a traditional linear piston or diaphragm pump, runs on flow more so than pressure. Jehmco sells them, along with a lot of smaller options for the average aquarist looking for central air. They’ll even help figure out what pump will best suit your setup and help with system design if need be.