A angel tank

I am busy making a 220 L angel tank.
It is gonna be for breeding them.There are gonna 4 angels to get a pair,2 corrys and a Flying fox.The substrate is gonna be Pool filter sand.The tank filter is gonna be a sump.A 300W heater.1 amazon sword plant,Floating plants and a long italian.The water parameters are Gonna be Ph 6.5-7 and the temp is gonna be 28.
Do you think I will be successful with getting a pair and breeding them?I will get BS.

 

Sounds almost exactly like my setup, and Ive got fry. The only difference is I have a cooler 25 degrees and I think th FF would eat eggs.

 

I think the FF would eat the eggs

 

Ja me to.So maybe like when they start to breed I remove him or I just dont buy him

 

Angels are one of those fish which some people find incredibly easy to breed, while others have problems. Most strains of angels these days cannot be trusted with their eggs. I last bred angels about 20years ago. I picked a pair out of my community tank and fed them lots of microworm. They bred easily but one of the pair started eating the eggs and I removed them. I tried again with the youngsters when they grew up and had a pair which did not eat the eggs and I only removed them, when the fry became free swimming. In the wild the parents guard their youngsters in typical chichlid behaviour, but it has been bred out of most strains. I tried some of the more fancy colours and long fins, but they all had a go at the eggs and that was when I lost interest. I always tried to keep my fish as natural as possible and that included trying to preserve their natural instincts.

 

is Angels schooling fish? What is the minimum number you should keep?

 

Tried a night light, like the prof said? If the parents do not see the eggs all night, they forget it is their eggs and start chomping in the morning.

 

Perhaps a bit late to answer this. Yes they do school and I belief the general rule of thumb is that you should have a minimum of 4.

 

I am not an expert on cichlids in general, but have bred a few different kinds. I would say that most them, including angels, are schooling when young, but when they get sexually mature they break up into pairs. Even when they are young they do not have the strong swarming behaviour of some other fish, where you see the whole shoal turn like one. I know I was quite surprised when years ago I heard that Corydoras were schooling fish in the wild, as they seemed quite individualistic in aquariums. In general I found that most fish do beter with several of their own kind in the same tank, with a few exceptions like the red tailed sharks, etc., that cannot seem to stand the sight of their own kind.

 

get some 2 foot tanks with bare bottoms to house your angel pairs in. use the 220Lt as a grow out tank for the fry.
i would not put any fish with the pairs. they would either eat the eggs or fry or will get battered by the pair protecting the eggs or fry.
If stressed, the parents might end up eating the eggs or fry.