April, 2007
Volume 15 Issue 8
THE
FILTER
TBAS . . . Since 1992
Celestichthys margaritatus
Galaxy Rasbora . . . Celestial Pearl Danio
. . . photo by MFJacobs
MONTHLY BOWL SHOW
1) Sucker Catfish 2) All Other Cats
3) Open
March Meeting
Paula Biles talks on Pond Plants
and then we are having a spring Plant Auction!
Tampa Bay Aquarium Society
“The Filter”
Tampa/St. Pete, Florida
Volume 15 Issue 8
April, 2007
CONTENTS
President
Chris Hockett
V-President
Ken Friesen
3) My First Angelfish Pair
Gene Linkoski
6) Angelfish Growout
Secretary
Jackie Friesen
Hank Darin
8) - 9) March Bowl Show Results
Treasurer
Patty Moncrief
10) TBAS BOD Meeting Places
10) Internet Ideas
BOD
Hank Darrin
11) Monthly Bowl Show Categories
Thelma Frias
Joe Emmons
John Papp
Ludo Van Den Bogart
Welcoming
Mike LoBello
Newsletter Editor
Mike Jacobs
http://www.tbas1.com
photo by MFJacobs
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by Gene Linkoski
pictures by Gene Linkoski
Since I was having trouble getting my Discus to raise a family, I decided to try
Angelfish. I purchased 5 dime-size angelfish at the Tampa Bay Aquarium Society’s
monthly meeting in Sep. 2005. I grew them out in a 15-gallon aquarium. After
about 10 months none of them paired up, but at the same time when I purchased
mine I also purchased 5 dime-size angelfish for a friend of mine, so we decided to
swap 2 of our Angelfish to see if we could get a pair. And we did — I got one pair
and my friend got 2 pair. I sold the remaining Angelfish at another TBAS meeting
and moved my pair to a 10 gallon tank which contained a small piece of driftwood.
Their first spawn was very good and consisted of about 200-300 eggs. They laid
them in the front upper right corner and when they hatched they moved them to
be attached to the heater in the back right of the tank. They were “wigglers” on
the heater for about 3 days until they became free swimming. About 200 of them
I believe. I fed newly hatched brine shrimp 3 times a day, but they only lasted
about 3 days with the number of survivors diminishing each day until there were
none left.
After this first spawn, I moved them to a 15 gallon with a UV-filter and I added a
PVC pipe to be used for laying their eggs. About 1 week later I noticed another
batch of about 300-400 eggs on the tubing for the UV-filter. They hatched after
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about 1 1/2 days and the parents moved the wigglers to the top of the PVC pipe
where they stayed until they were free swimming about 3 days later.
This batch survived and I still have some of couple of them in with my Discus in
my 75 gallon tank. Since I left the offspring with the parents, there were only
about 50 that survived to dime-size. I sold some at the TBAS auction, sold some
to a local fish store, kept a
couple and gave a couple to
a friend of mine. The number
of different looking fry was
quite amazing. There were
gold, wild, hybrid black,
smokey and blushing. Some
of the small fry looked like
they were albino, but they
didn’t survive too long.
Albino’s are very delicate
and require special handling
to raise them.
About 2 weeks after removing this spawn, the parents laid another one, but the
eggs were eaten before they hatched. They laid another batch about 2 months
before the Florida State Fair. There again were about 50 left when I removed them
from the parents. I had 3 of them in the 20 gallon aquarium I entered in the State
Fair.
My pair is a Smokey Hybrid Black Ghost(D/g - S/+ - Sm/+ - +/p - +/a) female and
a Smokey Leopard Ghost(+/g - Z/S - Sm/+ - +/p - +/a) male. I knew that the mother
of these two was an albino, which
meant that my pair each had a
recessive albino gene and that
possibly 1/4 of their offspring
could be albino. The genetics of
the pair indicate that they can
have 156 different looking
offspring. I used the Angelfish
Phenotype Calculator that can be
obtained after become a member
of “The Angelfish Society.” Their
website
is
http://
www.theangelfishsociety.org and
contains a lot of very helpful and interesting information about angelfish. Look
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for a picture of one of this pair’s offspring, a smokey blushing, that won their
Angelfish picture contest for November 2006.
I really enjoy having this pair since I raised them from about dime-size and hope to
get more offspring from them. I recently set up a 45 gallon aquarium to use as a
grow-out tank. I am going to try next time removing the fry earlier from the parents
and see if more survive to dime-size.
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There Is A New Web Site In Town!
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Coastal Aquarium Society
. . . our Sarasota Friends.
www.coastalaquariumsociety.com
Plant Auction at the
April meeting!
Yep . . . those Wonderful
Beautiful Plants!
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Angelfish
Growout . . .
Young Koi From
Steve Rybicki
by Hank Darin
Photos: MFJacobs
This year the Grow-out contest will feature the Angelfish. They will be
approximately 2 month’s old (Hatched on March 9) and ready to accept dry food
but to be successful in the grow-out contest you will have to provide ideal
conditions and a verity of food. First you need to know something about the fish
you are about to give your tender love and care.
The angelfish – Pterophyllum - is a small genus of freshwater fish from the family
Cichlidae that originate from the Amazon River basin in tropical South America.
In the wild, Angelfish are ambush predators and prey on small fish and small
invertebrates. Angelfish are unusually shaped for cichlids being greatly laterally
compressed, with round bodies and elongated triangular-shaped dorsal and
anal fins. This body shape allows them to hide among roots and plants, often on
a vertical surface. Angelfish form monogamous pairs.
There are three species of Angelfish known to the hobby. The best known
species of angelfish is Pterophyllum scalare. The others two are Pterophyllum
altum, (common name: Altum Angelfish or Orinoco Angelfish) and Pterophyllum
leopoldi.
Most strains of angelfish available in the fish keeping hobby are the result of
many decades of selective breeding. Domestic strains are most likely a collection
of genes resulting from more than one species of wild angelfish combined with
the selection of mutations in domesticated lines over the last 60 or more years.
The result of this is a domestic angelfish that is a true hybrid with little more than
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species although they most resemble P. scalare
and are frequently referred to as such.
Much of the research into the known genetics
of P. scalare is the result of the research of Dr.
Joanne Norton, who published a series of 18
articles in Freshwater and Marine Aquarium
(FAMA) Magazine. Those articles are reprinted
at http://theangelfishsociety.org/genetics.htm.
You will receive your Angelfish at the May
meeting and will have approximately 4 months
to grow them out. The baby angelfish are being
raised in city water. The young that I have
Young Wild Angel
selected are from mixed pair – the male is a
from Peru
germen blue and the female is a white gold cap
– so there will be a verity of color and patterns
in the offspring. The best method to achieve
maximum growth on these fish is to maintain good water quality, feed often with
a variety of foods, and provide enough space for them to grow.
Last year was the first year that I entered the grow-out contest and found it very
rewording and fun. I won first place in both categories – Discus and African
Cichlids. Here is an account of how I accomplished this.
A few of days prior to the TBAS meeting I set up two separate 2 ½ gal aquarium
containing aged sponge filters and a couple of small cory cats. When I got the
fish home I put the grow-out fish in these small tanks. The small tank assures
that the fish will get to the food that is feed and it is easy to do water changes.
(Don’t put LITTLE fish in a BIG aquarium). I fed the fish a verity of live and dried
food about 4 to 6 times a day and changed 50% of the water approximately every
other day. After about 6 to 8 weeks I moved them into a 10 gallon aquarium. At
this time I do water changes once a week unless the frequent feeding warranted
a more frequent water change. I still feed at least 4 times a day.
I keep a verity of live foods available for feeding the young fish that include
baby brine shrimp, daphnia, micro worms, grindle worms, and walter worms.
During the summer I also used small tadpoles. I also use frozen blood worms and
frozen adult brine shrimp that I feed sparingly. The main food is Zeiglers tropical
flake food. I also use various pellet foods from Zeigler and Marineland.
I believe that water quality and nutrition are the secret to growing large and
healthy fish. Good luck and have fun raising your fish.
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Photos by Mike
Category 1: Old World Cichids
Yellow Lab. . . 1st Place
Hank Darin
Category 2: New World Cichlids
Cryptoheros spilurus . . . 1st Place
Jim Greewald
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People’s Choice
Mesonauta festivus . . . 1st Place
Barbara Kusich
Best of Show
Cryptoheros spilurus
Jimk Greenwald
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2007
BOD Meeting Location
January
February
March
April
May
June
July 7/1/07 (2pm)
August
September
October
Ludo Van Den Bogart
State Fairgrounds
Thelma Frias
Chris Hockett
Mike Jacobs
Ludo Van Den Bogart
Ken Friesen
Patty Moncrief
. . . of course you are welcome!!!!!!!
INTERNET IDEAS
1)
http://www.aquamoss.net/Articles/Microrasbora-sp-Galaxy.htm
2) Just re-done: http://coastalaquariumsociety.com
3) http://www.theangelfishsociety.org/
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Monthly Bowl
Show
January
July
1) Livebearers 2) Egglayers
1) Barbs & Rasboras
February
2) Danios, White Clouds &
1) Killies Top 2) Killies Bottom
Rainbows
3) Open
3) Open
March
August
1)Old World Cichlids 2)New World
1) Bettas
Cichlids
2) Anabantids
3) Tank Decorations
3) Fish Art
April
September
1) Sucker Catfish 2)All Other Cats
1) Characins
3) Open
2) Sharks, Loaches & Eels
May
October
1) Livebearers Spawned & Raised
1) Native Florida Fish
2) Egglayers Spawned & Raised
2) Any Plants
3) Open
3) Fish Shirt (must be worn)
June
November
1) Marine Fish 2) Invertebrates
1) Goldfish 2) Ko
December
Awards
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