How to keep Bicolor Angelfish and Yellow Angelfish

chowshee · 03/26/2006, 11:16 AM

Dear Sir,

I had opened a marine aquarium tank last year. Since then I had been trying to keep Bicolor Angelfish and Yellow Angelfish but I found these 2 types of fishes extremely difficult to keep even though I managed to maintained very good water quality.

I put these two types of fishes separately in two tanks. I kept them alone in the aquarium tank without mixing with other fish because I did not want disturbance from other fishes. I fed them regularly with very small amount of food because I did not want to disturb the water quality of the tank. I used a powerful biological filter and a powerful protein skimmer. But no matter how hard I tried, these two types of fishes could only survive for nearly 2 weeks in my aquarium tank. I have a clown fish and a damsel in my aquarium tank. They had survived for nearly a year.

Can you please advise me how to keep Bicolor Angelfish and Yellow Angelfish.

Yours Sincerely,
Steven Chow

bubbaOPPD · 03/26/2006, 11:36 PM

I think Bi-colors need alot of live-rock with sponges and algae growing on them for the angel to eat, when I mean a lot I mean a lot. I have never gotten a bi-color to eat frozen or flake foods they seem to only want to graze well established live-rock. Yellows I have no experience with so your guess is a good as mine, or maybe you should try some other pygmy angels, I have a flame angel and African Flameback and they are very hardy and will eat anything you put in the tank.

orgetorix · 03/27/2006, 02:36 PM

I have had a bicolor angel for about 6 weeks now. It did not eat in QT that I could tell and it hid for the first couple days in the display. After that it seemed to flip a switch and has eagerly attacked all the prepared foods I have added.

03/26/2006, 11:16 AM	#1
chowshee Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Malaysia Posts: 2	How to keep Bicolor Angelfish and Yellow Angelfish Dear Sir, I had opened a marine aquarium tank last year. Since then I had been trying to keep Bicolor Angelfish and Yellow Angelfish but I found these 2 types of fishes extremely difficult to keep even though I managed to maintained very good water quality. I put these two types of fishes separately in two tanks. I kept them alone in the aquarium tank without mixing with other fish because I did not want disturbance from other fishes. I fed them regularly with very small amount of food because I did not want to disturb the water quality of the tank. I used a powerful biological filter and a powerful protein skimmer. But no matter how hard I tried, these two types of fishes could only survive for nearly 2 weeks in my aquarium tank. I have a clown fish and a damsel in my aquarium tank. They had survived for nearly a year. Can you please advise me how to keep Bicolor Angelfish and Yellow Angelfish. Yours Sincerely, Steven Chow __________________ Steven Chow Current Tank Info: 3 Tanks

03/26/2006, 11:36 PM	#2
bubbaOPPD Moved On Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Omaha, Nebraska Posts: 416	I think Bi-colors need alot of live-rock with sponges and algae growing on them for the angel to eat, when I mean a lot I mean a lot. I have never gotten a bi-color to eat frozen or flake foods they seem to only want to graze well established live-rock. Yellows I have no experience with so your guess is a good as mine, or maybe you should try some other pygmy angels, I have a flame angel and African Flameback and they are very hardy and will eat anything you put in the tank.

03/27/2006, 02:36 PM	#3
orgetorix Registered Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: SoCal Posts: 207	I have had a bicolor angel for about 6 weeks now. It did not eat in QT that I could tell and it hid for the first couple days in the display. After that it seemed to flip a switch and has eagerly attacked all the prepared foods I have added.