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Wild Scalare -- note the red splotches
Adaptable.
The original angels imported into our country cost an arm and two legs.
Rare indeed was the successful spawn.
Most of our Aqualand angels were born and bred right here in Des Moines.
They don’t need any peat water or dehydrated
Amazon river
extracts.
You can forget reverse osmosis water.
They adapted to our water -- unlike discus.
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Pterophyllum altum not seen much these days
Genealogy.
Angels originally came from the Amazon and some of its tributaries.
You rarely see imported angels from anywhere other than Thailand
and Singapore
these days.
(A few years back you rarely saw imported angels at all.)
At one time there was a controversy over what species name they were.
No one seems to care much these days.
The Pterophyllum part of their
name means “feather-finned.” Scalare
refers to their “ladder pattern.” We
occasionally see the pointy-nosed P. altum
and wild-caught red-flecked P.
scalare available. However,
locally grown specimens outsell the wild imports a thousand to one.
They live better and cost way less.
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An early gold angel
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Pic
Pearlscales come in every color.
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Pic
Nickel-size albino angel. One survivor out of a bag of ten.
Varieties.
No point in listing the varieties. As
soon as the list came out, someone would have a new one to add to the list.
We see variety in fin types, body colors, bars or absence of bars, number
of bars, marbling, gill cover colors, scales and who knows what since this
morning? On any given day you can
probably find a dozen varieties in Des Moines
alone.
Over time, you could probably find two dozen or more variations.
They all breed together more or less readily. LA.
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