{"id":9886,"date":"2016-02-22T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=9886"},"modified":"2016-02-24T18:19:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T23:19:33","slug":"koi-angel-pterophyllum-scalare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=9886","title":{"rendered":"Koi Angel (<em>Pterophyllum scalare<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9888\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_20160222_118924.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9888\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9888\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_20160222_118924-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Koi Angel (Pterophyllum scalare)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9888\" data-wp-pid=\"9888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_20160222_118924-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_20160222_118924-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_20160222_118924-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_20160222_118924-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_20160222_118924-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_20160222_118924.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Koi Angel (<em>Pterophyllum scalare<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In mid-November I bought some fish for a 70 gallon take that we have in our breakfast room. I posted pictures of a Red Dwarf Gourami (<em>Trichogaster lalius<\/em>, <a href=\"?p=9349\" target=\"_20151123\">Monday, November 23, 2015<\/a>) and of a Green and Gold Cory Cat (<em>Corydoras melanotaenia<\/em>, <a href=\"?p=9389\" target=\"_20151130\">Monday, November 30, 2015<\/a>). Here is another fish that I got at the same time. This is a Koi Angel. There are three recognized species of freshwater angelfish. In the aquarium trade, <em>Pterophyllum scalare<\/em> is the most common and most of the varieties that are available are derived from that species. I think it&#8217;s pretty obvious where the common name for this variety comes from, having been bred to have the sort of markings usually associated with koi, ornamental varieties of the common carp (<em>Cyprinus carpio<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-November I bought some fish for a 70 gallon take that we have in our breakfast room. I posted pictures of a Red Dwarf Gourami (Trichogaster lalius, Monday, November 23, 2015) and of a Green and Gold Cory Cat (Corydoras melanotaenia, Monday, November 30, 2015). Here is another fish that I got at the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=9886\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9886"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9892,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886\/revisions\/9892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}