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Angelfish Breeding Program

Our Continued Goal for over 30 years has been to develop and improve the freshwater angel fish. We are working towards the enhancement of present strains and every effort is being made to develop exciting new varieties of angel fish. Any advancement in fin shape, body size shape, color, fecundity and genetic vigor will be passed on to our customers with the sincere hope that they will further the groundwork.

Quality Matters

Our uniquely Quarantined Hatcheries mean that you get healthy angel fish. Our stock is not exposed to any outside fish, plant, etc.. Any new stock we bring in, goes through a three month testing and treatment procedure in a remote location. After proven to be totally safe, we add them to our quarantined breeding room, but they never enter our hatchery. Only "cleaned" eggs enter the main hatchery, meaning no diseases have ever been present.  In almost 25 years we have never had a disease problem in our hatchery.

Our Angel Fish Breeding Program: We use a combination of out-crossing and line-breeding to achieve our goals of enhancing desirable traits and eliminating harmful recessive traits, thus maintaining prolific and genetically sound strains of angel fish. The main thrust of our breeding program is to cross wild angel fish into our domestic stock of angel fish. We pioneered the first angel fish breeding program in this country that used wild angel fish to improve domestic strains. The increased vigor, health, improved shape and elimination of deformities is amazing. The success has been so outstanding that now most other angel fish breeders are attempting to copy this breeding technique. This is not an easy process and is very time consuming. The only other angel fish we have brought in, are angel fish from overseas, in an attempt to get stock with a totally different gene pool. We have had some success in locating good angel fish stock from other countries and on occasion have added the genetics of these angel fish to ours. Our fish are the foundation stock of most of the angel fish breeders in this country, and many other countries. If they didn't get their fish from us, then they most likely got them from someone who did. This is why we put such an effort into assuring that we supply healthy, vigorous angel fish across the country. The angel fish we offer, have stood the test of time. As an example, we have a Koi angel fish line that we've had for more than 20 generations and it's more vigorous, more vibrant, colorful and prolific than when we first got i - much more!

Stock selection: We generally raise anywhere from 50 to 100 juvenile angel fish of a strain to adult size to select from for our next generation. It is not uncommon for us to have approximately 300 adult Koi to select from, at any given time. Any angel fish breeding operation that is using only a dozen or so individuals is not going to make much progress (the strain will most likely regress). Almost all angel fish traits that we select for, are undeveloped in the juvenile angel fish. This would include adult coloration, fecundity, body shape, head profile, finnage, aggressiveness, spawn rearing tendencies and maximum size. Again, the only way to select for these traits is to select from a large number of adult angel fish. None of these traits can be reliably selected for, from juveniles and you would have to be extremely lucky to get the best angel fish out of a spawn of 500 by keeping only a dozen juvenile angel fish.

Angelfish Varieties Availability: We seldom work with more than 6-8 different angelfish varieties at one time. There are easily more than a hundred possible angelfish varieties from the color mutations that exist at this time. Our tank space only allows us to work on a few special projects at one time. Each year, we will have some angelfish varieties available that we didn't have in the prior year. We do maintain all the major color mutations, in case we decide to work with those genes.

Proven Angelfish Pairs. All pairs are sold from our "Angelfish Breeding Pairs"  page. Each angelfish pair is priced according to variety and quality, and are sold on a "first come, first serve" basis.

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