Altum Angel Fish Room
Spice up your aquarium with some altum angelfish for an authentic Amazonian experience. Did you know angel fish, plecos, and tetras occur alongside discus in their natural Amazon river habitats? Furthermore, altums are naturally very peaceful fish that encounter Amazon sword plants, and anubias in their wild habitats.
The Orinoco altum angelfish exhibit reddish finnage, whereas Atabapos do not. Next, the natural base color for both subspecies is silver. Similarly, both Atabapo and Orinoco angel fish share vertical stripes. As members of the cichlid family, angel fish are distant cousins to the discus fish, which is also a cichlid.
Altums enjoy the same foods as discus: beefheart, freeze dried blackworms, and frozen bloodworms. Everything we offer on Discus.com may be safely fed to your angel fish with no health concerns. Similar to discus requirements, altum angels require very clean water in order to thrive and breed. Although beautiful, they are considered suitable for advanced aquarists.
Finally, if you are looking for a nice touch to complement your discus collection, this could be it. Angel fish have very long pointed fins that help distinguish them from other discus tankmates. Their relatively small bodies make them an interesting addition to their more rotund discus cousins. In addition to altums, another popular tankmate choice is the tetra. An aquarium filled with tetras, corys, discus, and angels is a sight to behold. Many of our customers have replicated this exact mix of species with great success. If you are ready to take your hobby to the next level, our altum angelfish are a must-try.
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Large Wild Orinoco Altum Angel Fish Cichlid 3″
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Large Wild Atabapo Altum Angel Fish 4-5″
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Jumbo Negro Wild Altum Angel Fish
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XXL Wild Atabapo Altum Angel Fish 6-8″
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what is the smallest size tank you can use for breeding
My water has a high ph which is the best way to treat
My Discus pair have begun to spawn every week since Christmas. The eggs are fertile. As they hatch, the parents seem to fight over the babies; which then soon disappear. What should I do?
Can golden nugget plecos do well in a discus tank? In 84 degrees? Thank you.
Im having issues off and on by loosing fish. I have 7.6 ph tap water. I keep a 40 gallon barrel with heater and air Stone. I treat the barrel to lower ph in between weekly water changes for 40 and 90 gallon tanks. Any suggestions are welcomed.
I have 2 pair of Breeding Discus. They are all in separate breeding Tank (20 Gallon). The female lay eggs almost every week. the male also ejaculates, but within a few weeks, the fertilization fails. Eggs are all white, and I am not successful. Are both male impotent? Sometimes they also eat their eggs. Can you help me ? Thx
I love discus but always die on me. Now I understand have to be a no current pushing the flow. Temperature, tetras instead of angels. Etc…
I received in the shipment of the purchase #10880 an extra package of a yellow powder that medicine is and how they are used. Excellent the fish shipped although 2 of the 4 Altums 2 of them were not the expected size 3” but very healthy and beautiful fish the super excellent and punctual packaging under the adverse weather conditions to send.
When you say a discus size is 4″ is that measured to the base of the tail or the end of the tail?
Thanks
Great article and very informative.
I myself use to use 3 large canister filters in my 150 gallon xh aquarium, but maintaining 3 sun sun 704b canister filters became alot of work for me and made it hard for me to enjoy my discus I purchased from DISCUS.COM. so I took the plunge into a sump for my discus tank. 40 breeder aquarium makes a great sump…and now I definitely enjoy sitting and relaxing watching my beautiful discus…maintaining my sump is very easy and takes minutes, instead of hours cleaning several canister filters….also adds volume and is a place to add all my equipment…thank you Michael for providing such a wonderful website with loads of information and beautiful discus..
Where do you get your starter batch
What is the best medicine for it?
I basically want to know what meds I should have on hand
I have a few questions rather than a comment.
Would opening the shipping bag and allowing the built-up CO2 (from the trip) to escape suddenly raise the pH and make the ammonia in the water from the trip dangerous (by a sudden conversion from ammonium to ammonia due to the pH rise)?
Would it be safer to prepare new water at the pH they are accustomed to and then open the bag and quickly transfer them to the fresh water without ammonia present?
Also, what pH are your discus accustomed to so I may match my water to yours? Thank you, Mark, California.
Excellent readibg