Blue Marble Angelfish Care

The fish can be lightly or heavily marbled.

Blue marble angelfish care.

Wild caught angelfish are silver bodied with black stripes but you can find angels in just about every color as well with the most popular colors being marble black white blue gold silver and koi. My pair of blue marble angelfish spawning in my breeding tank. The koi angel is a strain of angelfish that has been bred for it s mottled black and white coloration. Wild caught angelfish are rare in the aquarium hobby with most fish for sale being captive.

Possibly the most recognized freshwater fish in the aquarium hobby angelfish belong to the family cichlidae. Admired for their graceful swimming behavior angelfish make stunning additions to large community aquariums. The fins are long and thin with delicate looking webbing and will typically extend past the length of the body. Angelfish can grow up to 6 long from nose to tail and most of an angelfish s growth takes place within the first year of their lives.

A different gene causes the gold marble coloration which is a more gold than silver and has only a small amount black marbling compared to a regular marble angelfish. My pair of pearlscale blue marble widefin angelfish boötes and ophiuchus spawning on a breeding cone in my 29 gallon. In marble angelfish the silver and black markings are marbleized rather than in stripes.