angelfish update!

Their eyes all look clear this morning, and I ran a water test- no ammonia, but I did a partial wc anyway. Fed them flake and they went about eating very casually- deliberate but rather slow at getting it. My festivums will eat everything before these angels even notice there's food in there, at that rate! They did spend a long time afterwards looking at the surface carefully for more food, even though I dropped in flake three times. And Miss Beautiful followed their example and ate some, which I haven't seen her do in quite a while. The same two koi still appear to be paired off, now defending the opposite corner than where they were yesterday, and the female seems interested in cleaning the airlift tube.

Looks like having two pair off got all the others 'in the mood' with breeding tubes extended and though it's very small on some of them, I can see it clearly. I've got three males and two females, among the newcomers. Honestly I'm not disappointed to only keep the two females- but I'm in no rush to re-home the males immediately, either. They just got here!

I just fed them for the second time today, NLS pellets. They ate that more eagerly than the flake. My older angel, Miss Beautiful, continues to be peaceful with them. She moves away quickly when the smaller male chases them about, and only mildly threatens one of the golden youngsters herself in turn. I could sit in front of the tank for hours watching them interact.