angel pics!

My little angels are quickly becoming confident in their new home- out all over the tank most of the day. When I walk by they dart to the back wall, then turn and approach front again. They're already starting to realize I mean food.

They like the tangle of roots, and hang out a lot under the frogbits

Here's the larger, standard one in front-

and the smaller, zebra-striped one-

a few pictures focused on the smaller one:

and my slightly-larger, standard angel:

This one seems to have a scratch on its right side? where the lateral line goes across flank, there's a mark going down, and viewing the fish from rear, it looks like something is on its side there- torn scale? parasite? I can't tell. I hope it's not something to worry about. Maybe I'll dose with something anti-parasitic.

Just eaten- slightly bulgy tummies. I've offered them nearly all the foods I have, now- and a few more are coming from online order soon. They like crushed shrimp pellets, the protein flake, bug bites, spriulina bites. They spat out betta micro pellets so I won't bother to offer that again. Ate frozen mysis/brine shrimp mix, and bloodworms- but only if those are small enough. Liked NLS pellets but I have to crush those up, the size is too large for them still. Ecstatic about live mosquito wigglers- for those they will hang around front of the tank looking eagerly for more. They also eat the Gold Pearls eagerly. I also tried giving them some very small red wigglers (from my vermicompost bin)- they following the writhing worms down as sank through the water column, but just stared and didn't bite.

My kuhlis go nuts when I offer food to the angels (three or four times a day right now). Once a day I deliberately drop a sinking food for them, before I feed the angels at top. Tiger has figured out he can slide his body between the stem structure of frogbit and hang out at surface to find food, now. The others wriggle and wriggle constantly to keep themselves up there- but if I give them time to find the food on the floor, it works better. Some of them also now know to look for food that drops onto the anubias leaves- which is great because their activity there keeps it cleaner of debris as well. This guy moved right when I snapped the photo.

Full tank shot, and idea of scale:

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Later in the day- I think I've been overfeeding- it's hard to judge how much the little guys eat. Maybe three times is plenty, and I shouldn't give so much. Especially with the frozen foods, I'm new to using those. Water looks clear, Ammonia tests at zero and Nitrates less than 10ppm, but the larger angel I noticed today has black edge on the caudal fin and it looks a bit ragged in a few spots. I wonder if water quality has gone down, doing another 25% wc even though I just did one yesterday.