Pterophyllum leopoldi

[benny]

Hi guys,

Photo by Jan Fredsholt from www.danskcichlideselskab.dk

Has anyone kept these before? How are they compared to Altum Angels? Comments or feedback please.

Was at Gan's Fish Farm and saw some of these from their recent shipment and wondered if they are identified correctly. They have a distinctively longer snout compared to the other angels. Was told that it's pretty hard to get these locally and this was the first shipment in a long time.

Incidentally, those interested please call as ask Gan's before heading down. They are still in quarantine and have limited pieces. No point going all the way there and it's sold out or not ready.

Cheers,

P.S. For dwarf cichlid lovers, there are 2 tanks of checkerboard cichlid left.

[mickthefish]

benny,

I've always thought this fish to be P. dummerilii with it's elongated body lines. We had some angels that come in about 8 years ago that were called P. leopoldi, which had the usual body shape. The thing that made them different from scallare was a black tear shaped mark of the dorsal.

If these were the true P. leopoldi, they were very agressive with each other, even pairs. I managed to breed them but you could not keep the pair together, they tear each other to pieces. I've got some old pics somewhere and I'll try to scan them in when i find them. I've kept the ones in your pic and found them to be good tank mates as long as the other fish were of a reasonable size.

Rgds,
mick

[benny]

Thanks mick!

Hmm... looks like most angels are fairly aggressive. Then again, the are cichlids afterall. Perhaps I should give them a miss, despite their rarity.

Cheers,

p.s. Is that anything that you haven't bred at all!?

[ranmasatome]

what about luohan??hahaa..

[Ibn]

Have always thought that P. dumerlii was synonymous with P. leopoldi.

[mickthefish]

hi eric, i don't think it was dumerelii has been known for a good many years , leopoldi has had some mystery about it , i think there was an article in TFH about 8-9 years ago i know ive read it somewhere. will try to get some info on them.
benny theres loads of fish i haven't bred , but there are a lot of fish that i have next time i see you i'll show you my breeding records from 1998 to now.
ranmasatone, what is a luohan???????????? haha

[ranmasatome]

Mick its a hybrid fish... also known as the flower horn.. ergh.. erks me just thinking of it... disgusting fish..lol

[ccs]

Hey Benny, Any altums at Gans shipment?

[mickthefish]

now i know that fish ranmasatome, ive seen them about but they don't interest me, ugly buggers and big, thanks for the translation.
mick

[ranmasatome]

Mick,

Ugly?? You're too kind..

[valice]

Hey Benny, Any altums at Gans shipment?

2 weeks ago, Gan still have a tank of about 5 altums... In the tank with a very beautiful royal plec... Still in my camera...

[mickthefish]

Hi benny and all,



These are the P. leopoldi I had with some youngsters. Sorry about the pix, it was taken with an old camera that I had years ago.

Also I've just remembered something else about them in the other angel species we have. In between the 2 dorsal stripes there is a faint stripe, with the P. leopoldi there is no stripe.

Mick

[dbcyeo]

Just sharing a picture of the angels that I bought from Gan's Fish farm when this post started. Find them to be rather peaceful and have never seen them attempting to take a bite out of the smaller fishes around.



Anyone has any idea if these angels can be kept with altums?

[joopsg]

is this the peruvian angel??