Marble Angelfish Anatomy

A mature annularis angelfish will have a white tail fin a light brown body and curving thin neon blue stripes.

Marble angelfish anatomy.

This fish can reach up to 60 centimeters in length leaving the average angelfish at 20 30 centimeters long. The angelfish grows to about 15 centimetres 6 inches is laterally compressed which means that it is flat and thin in a vertical position. This specimen has a dash of gold thrown in making it particularly attractive. The gold marble angelfish pterophyllum scalare is a tropical freshwater fish from the cichlidae family native to the amazon river basin in south america.

Angelfish anatomy if left then un eaten food can cause build ups of bacteria which can be harmful to the fish and for a long time. The largest species is the gray angelfish. There are many color variations that include genes for color marbling a mottled arrangement of coloring that forms a unique pattern in every fish. The classic marble angelfish will show the distinctive marbling on the body coupled with stripes on the fins.

One stripe goes through the eye one on each side of the dorsal fin. This enable it to move among river reeds and grasses. There is no visible difference between male and female blue ring angels. In the hobby they may be called silver or even wild angelfish.

In my opinion they are perhaps the most beautiful of all the freshwater community cichlids. The angelfish are made up of streamer like extensions and a soft dorsal and fins. This locus governs basic colour expression in angelfish. Marble angelfish they have broken pattern of vertical stripes in silver and black colour.

There are five known alleles of this gene. The wild allele original allele from wild angefish d the dark allele incomplete dominant gm the gold marble allele incomplete dominant m the marble allele incomplete dominant g the gold allele recessive phenotypes. Their mouths tend to be very small while they have large pectoral fins and round lunate tail fins. This species is shy initially when introduced to a tank but has been known to become territorial towards other angelfish as time goes on.

The silver zebra angelfish pterophyllum scalare like all pterophyllum species originate from the amazon river basin orinoco basin and various other smaller rivers in the guiana shield in south america. To maintain the health of your fish to the tank fully at least four gallons is usually better because it will groom a flat surface such as brine shrimp are considered closely since 1945. The wild angelfish is silver with three black strips.