Angel Fish

My long time hobby has been keeping and attempting to breed Angel Fish. I have had lots of good luck keeping them, but breeding is a different story. I had a breeding pair once but the female died three days after their first successful spawn.

NEWS
02/23/2001 - Successful breading pair!!
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	First, this is my Marble Angel, my pride and joy. He was momma Angel's mate. I don't keep very good records of when I got these fish but I know he has got to be at least three years old. It is hard to tell his scale from these pictures, even with the five dollar bill there. He is about mid tank so perspective throws it off a little bit. Fin span is about 10 inches and his body is nearly 4 inches long and about 3 inches tall at my best estimate.
This is my next largest and second oldest. It is a Zebra Lace and is about 6 inches tall (fin span). I got it as a baby along with a 4 others hoping to find a mating pair in the bunch. Unfortunately the all of the others died pretty quickly, but this one has done really well. In the picture with the big angel he looks larger because he is very close to the glass while the big one is near the back.
	This is one of my newer additions that I added after getting a new bigger tank (27 gal hex). It is a Zebra Pearlscale - notice the shiny, bumpy scales - the pearl scale feature really makes her stand out among the rest!
My youngest and smallest angel, the baby! I bought this one at the same time as the pearl scale, there was just something about him that I loved. I think it is the little tiny black dots that makes him look like a leopard.
	These Pictures will help convey the size of my Angels. Other fish share this tank with the angels. There are 2 plecostomus (plocostomi?) and 2 headlight/taillights. I also try to keep live plants growing but I have no idea what variety they are.
Newest edition 2/02 - an Albino Angel! Just a baby, but very cool! I will probably now have to set up my old 20GH tank again because this tank is becoming crowded! Update 9/16/02 - The baby didn't make it. I have no idea what happened. Maybe jus the frailties of the breed.

Marine Fish

Our newest hobby is keeping salt water fish. We are trying to replicate the ocean environment as closely as possible with live rock.

You won't find bleached coral skeletons in my tanks!

The live rock is gathered from rubble fields so that it does little harm to the delicate corals that are still growing on the reef.

The live rock provides the best natural biological filter, a place for cool things to grow (like the mushroom polyp above) and gives our fish (like our Picaso Triggerfish on the right) some really cool hiding places! Each fish actually has their own hiding place and gets pretty territorial over it - like little fishy apartments! 8-)

We have several more fish in this tank but they were camera shy. We have a Sea Anenome, a Lawnmower Blenny, 2 Damsels (one blue and one zebra), a Brittle Starfish and several snails. The tank can hold a few more fish but we are going slowly to make sure they do well.