my collection of angelfish

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3 kings from ah buk today

4.5inches

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2.5inches

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3.5inches

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3 in quarantine

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queen

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queen

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my french

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chrysurus

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Maldive blue ring

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durusumeri tang

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cortez angel

[neokn]

Nice collection of angelfish.

[KTLK]

awesome!

[Tigger]

Bro, very nice angel.

[shawncel]

Nice collection of angels you got there, bro.

How I wish I can also set up such a large fowlr dedicated only to angels

[tijou]

BRo,

Do you keep life rock in your tank? The angel family are very sensitive to disease if kept with life rock. Is it true?

[bigbird]

mine is not a fowlr, mine is a fowar

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mine is not a fowlr, mine is a fowar

hi tijou, my rock are those dead algae rock. you are right angel and butt are very prone to disease, iw ill dise copper for the new fish and remove the copper by all means till is as close to zero.

[tijou]

Pardon me, what is FOWAR?

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Pardon me, what is FOWAR?

new word in forum, fish only with articifial rock (fowar)

[tijou]

Bro,

I am setting up my 3x2.5x2 tnk next week. Intention is to have dead rock and fishes only. Someone told me a similar method you are using, adding copper powder.

Will be keeping blue face, yellow tank, purple tank,soha tank, blue ring, king and queen only.

I realised all the shops do not put any angels in their display tank, especially when there's lots of corals. I spoke to one LPS owner, she told me "can", just that they are putting any angels in it. Another owner is very honest, he told me "cannot", this fishes will get disease easily if put in coral tank. He say to keep this big fishes, best is to keep with dead rock and maintain the water with copper powder. He claim that copper powder will keep corals and live rock but not the fishes.

[bigbird]

Bro,

I am setting up my 3x2.5x2 tnk next week. Intention is to have dead rock and fishes only. Someone told me a similar method you are using, adding copper powder.

Will be keeping blue face, yellow tank, purple tank,soha tank, blue ring, king and queen only.

I realised all the shops do not put any angels in their display tank, especially when there's lots of corals. I spoke to one LPS owner, she told me "can", just that they are putting any angels in it. Another owner is very honest, he told me "cannot", this fishes will get disease easily if put in coral tank. He say to keep this big fishes, best is to keep with dead rock and maintain the water with copper powder. He claim that copper powder will keep corals and live rock but not the fishes.

The shop owner who told you can keep angel in the coral tank firstly what type of angelfish you saw in her tank? Centropyge( drawf angel) or the pomacanthus, holacanthus family? If you saw angel like acanthop, brazilian flameback or the flame angel, it should be ok if she house her tank with soft finger etc.

As for dead rock tank for angelfish, this is the best solution so far, but i have seen some people keep their angelfish house with live rock and kept so years. Keeping angelfish in dead rock tank with copper, your angel colouration is not as natural as keeping them with live rock. If you keep angelfish in a dead rock enviroment my advice is don't use copper powder mix with water type. Use seachem cupramine, and maintain at 0.5mg. Keep it for 10 to 14 days, and after the treatment, try your very best to reduce as much copper level as possible. Next optain a optimum water quality like balancing between PH level and KH level. PH from 8.2 - 8.3 at 8-10 dkh. Use tropic marin iodine and dose 1 drop per 50gallon daily and also add trace element daily, like example, 10ml/100gallon weekly, you divide by 7. This will give you 1.4ml (est) per day. Everytime you add new fish, stop all skimmer, ozone and UV, and dose copper to 0.3 for a few days. Reason, when newly arrive fish are already stressful, when introduce into the tank those old bird angelfish will surely attack and force it to a higer stress level, those disease like white spot, etc, will be invited to their body starting from the tail and the fish, and will spread to the rest. 0.3mg is playing safe, however if lymphocystis( viral disease) appear on the edge of their fin or tail, it alright, leave it alone, those are cause by stress, it will disappear in a few weeks if you maintain good water quality. Pardon me if i am wrong, looks like centropyge sp will not survuve in a dead rock enviroment, as they need live rock enviroment to thrive. Cheers bro. Wish u successful in keeping angelfish

[Dispar_Anthias]

Look at your sig... what a crazy tank size you have... Really awesome collection of fishes

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scribble from J&J

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personifer looks like male, the blue on the face