Marbled Angelfish
Just like the zebra the marble likes to live in warm water environments.
Marbled angelfish. The marble veil angel is a strain of angelfish that has a black white and yellow marbled pattern. Up to 6 inches. Marble angelfish pterophyllum scalare var.
6 vallisneria jungle val plants fresh live aquarium plants buy2get1free. Since a few years i am working at a phenomen which produces enormous possibilities to regulate the coloration of the marbled pattern at angelfish. The marble pattern is due to a dominant gene that produces a more extensive black pigmented pattern in a homozygous fish one having two doses of the gene than in a heterozygous fish having one dose of the gene for marble.
The fins are long and thin with delicate looking webbing and will typically extend past the length of the body. Beautiful marble angelfish lots of 5. Actually are four grades to be seen.
They have fins that aren t too flowing to tempt nippers with swirling patterns in black white orange and silver. Unique marbled body of black white gold. This phenomen is the differing variation at its dark coloration.
However it can have black white and yellow coloring in marbled patterns thus its name. But it s best to keep a slightly acidic water inside the tank because that s where they thrive. No two fish are alike either allowing you to set up shifting colors within the tank.
Norton 1971 1982a i refer to these angelfish as original marbles. The marble angelfish is somewhat similar to the previous zebra type. Pterophyllum is a small genus of freshwater fish from the family cichlidae known to most aquarists as angelfish all pterophyllum species originate from the amazon basin orinoco basin and various rivers in the guiana shield in tropical south america.
Angelfish do best in a tropical aquarium of at least 60l kept at 25 27 c with a ph of 6 2 7 0 and kh of 4. There is also an intriguing variant of this species known as marbled angelfish which has irregular jarred bands or even black spots instead of straight black bands. The three species of pterophyllum are unusually shaped for cichlids being greatly laterally compressed with round bodies and elongated.
A significant feature of their appearance is their striking bands over their bodies. It prefers a well planted tank of at least 30 gallons with soft slightly acidic water. Marble marble angelfish combine the best features in one.
The classic marble angelfish will show the distinctive marbling on the body coupled with stripes on the fins. 40 00 shipping. Wba rainbow marbled angelfish 2021.
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Marble angelfish were introduced by ash 1969. This specimen has a dash of gold thrown in making it particularly attractive.
