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.

Marble angelfish care.

Monitor the tank s ph level to ensure it stays between 6 and 8 and keep the temperature between 75 and 84 f. The marble veil angel is a strain of angelfish that has a black white and yellow marbled pattern. It prefers a well planted tank of at least 30 gallons with soft slightly acidic water. The fins are long and thin with delicate looking webbing and will typically extend past the length of the body.

They are the color variation that most closely resembles the wild type of the species p. The gold marble strain has become so popular that now it is often simply called marble as the original silver bodied marble angel has all. 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. The three species of pterophyllum are unusually shaped for cichlids being greatly laterally compressed with round bodies and elongated.

Silver angelfish have long been the backbone of the freshwater angelfish trade. The three vertical black stripes can fade or darken depending on the mood of the fish. They are quite hardy and among the easiest of the angelfish to care for.