Marble Angelfish Breeding

My pair of blue marble angelfish spawning in my breeding tank.

Marble angelfish breeding.

Like its names suggests it has a black coloring. This is required not only for bigger groups but for a pair of adults. The babies never made it too long for a variety of reasons and i eventually let the pair go. Your pair will lay eggs every 7 14 days depending on your water temperature.

Adult angelfish form breeding pairs and the pair will defend their territory from other angelfish and tankmates. Try to provide your angelfish with a piece of slate rock positioned vertically in the aquarium or breeding and you ll notice that they ll gravitate toward it very quickly. The eggs are laid on flat fairly vertical surfaces like broad plant leaves flat rockwork or the sides of the aquarium. Most strains of angelfish available in the fishkeeping hobby are the result of many decades of selective breeding.

For the most part the original crosses of wild angelfish were not recorded and confusion between the various species of pterophyllum especially p. The veil or black veil angelfish is a result of over 40 years of selective breeding.