Frank's Fish Room

09/19/2026

09/19/2026

Just finished selecting and packaging fish and plants. We are bringing a LOT of cool stuff. Quad Cities Fish Swap. See you there.

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09/16/2026

Quad Cities Fish Swap Sept 20, 2026. Lots of awesome angels, live plants, medaka rice fish, super red plecos, Venezuelan orange cories and more. See you there.

07/21/2026

Pinoy lace Dark pinoy Qtr body sized

07/21/2026

Koi veil and black veil quarter body sized

07/21/2026

Blue marble, medium size and orange marble blush quarter body size

06/19/2026

For many years I did not influence the colors of my koi angelfish. I bred them to look "natural" and I paid the price for doing so as other breeders gained more of an advantage over my not wanting to deal with customers disappointed that their fish had faded in time. I purchase a group of very expensive Red Devils that had fantastic coloration of near red orange and did not use methods to influence coloration, after two months this expensive bright near red fish were orange just like my Koi lines. I was disappointed in the breeder at first but then I decided to influence all of my koi angels and within a couple of weeks all of my lines were brilliantly colored. A decision was made and it has to do with disciplines, not my disciplines but the disciplines of those who keep koi angels and seek red coloration. I decided it was up to the people who have koi to be responsible for their coloration maintenance but at the same time realized that any do not know science behind the discipline. Some think that red orange angels are a scam, they are not, they are the application of science to the art of angelfish breeding. I will share the science. In a nutshell red orange angels are sun tanned. This sun tanning is done by exposing the fish that are the most prone to gaining this result to light within specific light temperatures for extended durations. By exposing red orange and yellow fish to sunlight or full spectrum lighting for 8 hours per day minimum you gain brighter color. To brighten red even further the fish can be fed foods that contain vitamin A. Vitamin A has the ability to limit melanin production in the skin. By limiting melanin production in the skin, you lessen the amount of black pigmentation in the skin which allows red and orange and yellow to be more prominent. Vitamin A is also an immune boosting vitamin which helps against disease and infection. There is a negative caveat which is that over dosage of vitamin A can result in liver and kidney issues so we must apply feeds that have vitamin A in a measured amount and not just feed color foods solely. There are many sources of vitamin A available to fish including carrots, krill, baby brine shrimp, spirulina, marigold petal, astaxanthin and other natural sources. To maintain red orange coloration the keeper of the red orange fish must apply the science to maintain the color. I have posted a couple of my koi groups to show progress and have several more that should exceed this coloration. The fish shown are young fish and will gain more red orange as they mature.

06/18/2026

Pinoy Pearl Standard fin.
Pinoy is a fascinating beautiful phenotype group, I say phenotype group because Pinoy appears the most beautiful as a hybrid unset grouping within several different unset strains. Ultimately one would want homozygous genetics for Philippine Blue, Homozygous for Pearl, heterozygous for Dark and heterozygous for zebra and oh, a bucket of luck. Cultivating this composition of the various genes is a bit frustrating but can be very rewarding. Despite your best efforts to create and maintain the perfect ability to render the best color form you will have only a percentage of great fish and sometimes one or ten that are truly epic. To maintain the ability to create a really nice pinoy living art form that really gets me all giddyapp :), I keep a line of Double Dark veils, A line of Blue zebra veil pearls, a line of black pearl veils and groups of pinoys in many differing hues. Sometimes you get lucky and sometimes oops, we start from near scratch. The reason we sometimes need to start from near scratch has to do with the painful genetic fact that some genes are deleterious. Oh yes, dark gene, pb to some extent and definitely pearl are deleterious genes, but I love 'em. Deleterious genes are genes that when over focused have an effect resulting in low fertility, form defects, immune disorders, stunting or often minimal size attributes or fry growth or durability issues. If you get to a point where no matter what you try your fry just sort of bail from the living form after a few days to weeks you most likely have over focused deleterious genes that are causing issues with your fry, try swapping out a partner on your pairs that works genetically and you may solve the issue.
Pinoy types, fish that drive us crazy in the best way. I'll be posting images of some of my best attempts soon.

06/17/2026

Black lace pearl veil

02/13/2026

Quad City Fish Swap Fish List

We will have adult angel pairs available;
See me early for the pairs, no pre sales , sorry.
We will have adult Manacapuru Red Shoulder angels available
Angel types;
Black veil
Blue philipine
Koi veil
Koi standard
Bulgarian lilac
Bulgarian green
Pinoy pearl
Pinoy pearl veil
Pinoy lace in veil and standard fin, pearls
Blue marbles
Gold marble veils
gold veils
platinums
Blue zebra pearls
Other rare angels too.
Plants:
Amazon Swords;
Rangeri
Oriental
Rosettes
melon
kleiner bar
red flame sword
other plants:
Lyodiella
ludwigia peruensis red peru
Crypt wendti
Rotala indica
anubias barteri
ludwigia ovalis

see us early for the best selection, no holds, no pre sales, sorry.

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