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twoluvcats
Large Fish
Registered: April 2004
Location: Western Colorado
Posts: 893
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Review Date: Thu May 12, 2005
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: $5.99
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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curious, active, good community tank fish
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Cons:
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fins can easily get clobbered, can get very agressive as they age
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Angelfish are like small dogs. They will follow you around (at least as far as the tank will allow ), beg for food, and swim around your hands if you have them in the tank. 6\" may be the body size, but with fins in good condtion, these guys can take up 12\" or more in an aquarium. They need more vertical space than horizontal. They really appreciate live plants. They\'ll eat almost anything, and commonly fight my bottom feeders for thier food. Small fish like guppies and neons will eventually become \'angelfish snacks\'...but that\'s usually not until the angelfish gets closer to the 6\" size.
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Balloon Fish
Super Fish
Registered: July 2004
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Posts: 3025
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Review Date: Sat May 14, 2005
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: $4.00
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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beautiful fish, don\'t swim so fast you get dizzy
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Cons:
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aggressive
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Awesome fish to have, when they breed they could get aggressive to other fish and other angels. They also like a really planted tank and some protien in their diets. Also a nice tall tank is probably better because they get really tall after a while and like to still have room to swim up and down the tank.
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CAPSLOCK
Super Fish
Registered: July 2004
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 3022
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Review Date: Thu June 16, 2005
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: $5.00
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Nice appearance, \"people\" fish
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Cons:
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Aggressive towards each other
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Definitely recognize their people, and will do their best to convince you that they never get fed, even when you know you fed them 10 minutes ago. Seem to get along with any non-aggressive fish. Will eat anything, and particularly like frozen. Mine recently discovered that I use bottom-feeder pellets, and they learned to follow the cories around and steal the pellets from them when they find one. I think the black, white, and marbled ones look the best... I\'ve got a mottled gray one who just isn\'t as pretty.
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jordz.999
Teenie Weenie Fish
Registered: December 2005
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 2
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Review Date: Sun December 4, 2005
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 1
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Array
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Cons:
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doesnt have breeding aspects
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this review is ok
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angelic
Teenie Weenie Fish
Registered: January 2006
Location: new zealand
Posts: 3
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Review Date: Sun January 1, 2006
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: $20.00
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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look good, good personality, awesome fish
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Cons:
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can be aggressive toward other angels
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angelsfish are very nice fish. i especially like black ones. they eat anything which will fit in its mouth and are never full. they get to know there owners and beg for food. they need a very tall tank to have lots of fun in and also like to have other angels with them not just 1.
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Zman16
Large Fish
Registered: August 2005
Location: Pennsylvannia
Posts: 865
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Review Date: Sun June 25, 2006
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: $7.50
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Very Colorful, active, hardy, fun to watch fish.
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Cons:
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Sometimes expensive
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These are excellent fish! I had two of them and they were fantastic fish. I was sad when they died.
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tranquiltank
Teenie Weenie Fish
Registered: July 2006
Location: central florida
Posts: 5
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Review Date: Sun July 30, 2006
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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beauty to behold, best pet fish ever
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Cons:
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need lots of tank space
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out of all the fish I have my two angels are the definite king and queen of the tank, these fish are fun to watch and feed. They are really more like a dog or cat, when begging for food. I will always have angels in my tank.
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Mom2Angel
Teenie Weenie Fish
Registered: August 2006
Location: CA
Posts: 59
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Review Date: Sun August 27, 2006
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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beautiful fish
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Cons:
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sometimes aggressive
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I love my angels! Wonderful to watch the graceful flow...they fit in well with other tankmates in my tank. Just be careful in what you choose to house them with.
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echoofformless
Large Fish
Registered: September 2005
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 749
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Review Date: Sat November 4, 2006
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Elegant, unique, lots and lots of character.
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Cons:
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Hard to find a good one, a little bit unpredictable as far as aggression.
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I had been planning my Amazon tank for a long time, and angels were always intended to be the centerpiece species.
The sad truth was that I had to go through over half a dozen fish before I finally found one that survived the acclimation. The reason for this is twofold - one, I wanted a small, juvenile fish so as to make him/her truly "mine." (Younger angels aren't as hardy as older ones.) And two, because most of the angels sold at the normal consumer level are basically "junk" angels; which are so inbred that they have lost quite a bit of their quality.
Frustrated to the point of either planning on mail ordering an expensive "breeding" quality pair or just giving up altogether, I happened upon one angel at PetsMart which I immediately knew was a good one. This is where I share some advice - always go for an angel with some red in their eyes. This means they are closer to the wild type and therefore a lot stronger than the overbred junk angels. But it also means they're a little more aggressive and territorial as well.
I knew this one was perfect...so much so that even after the fish catcher dropped him on the floor, I still insisted on taking him, much to the guy's surprise.
My assumption paid off. I now have had this fish for over six months and he shows more character, more colors, and more fiesty temperment than I could have imagined. Not only did he survive a drop to the floor at PetsMart, but he easily survived acclimation as well. He's now king of his tank - active, colorful and with lots of character. He swims right to the front everytime someone goes past the tank. Always ready to eat.
So the bottom line is this: make sure you're getting a high quality angel (take advantage of life guarantees like PetsMart offers, and know what to look for in the individual fish - stay as close to the wild type as you can) and make sure they are going to live with other suitable species in a well-established tank.
Once those criteria are met, you will be rewarded with a wonderful fish.
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Shark Bite
Teenie Weenie Fish
Registered: November 2006
Location: Australia
Posts: 9
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Review Date: Mon April 9, 2007
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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interesting breeders.
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Cons:
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can be aggressive when breeding.
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beautiful fish.... very family like when breeding. it is great to watch them take care of the eggs. very routine with caring for them. but also very paranooid. they can be aggresive and chase other fish away from the egg site. once you buy a couple of angels, you will forever have them (maybe not the same ones...)
great fish.
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