I must admit I did not noticed the angels for quite some time, but after 10 years it seems that only 'improved...' versions are available. Every petshops has them, in all kind of colors, but does nobody fancy's the originals anymore? An other thing I have noticed is that there are not much adult fish, or semi adult fish for sale. There are only large quantities of young ones. The petstore's are selling these little angel fish for small, well small in my opinion, community tanks together with a bunch of guppy's and tetra's.

The buyers of these small angel fish have no idea that they are buying really large cichlids, mature angels can get 10 inches high easily. And besides their size it is also an schooling fish that should be kept in a small group of 5 to 7 fish, so a really large tank is required. In my opinion petstore's should have at least some mature fish in their store to show the customers what kind of animal they are actually buying, but as one petstore owner told me "people are just buying new angel fish when their old ones are getting to big, they flush them down the toilet, if they not already died before"