Angels in SPS dominated tank?

[Arnel0387]

Will these angels nip acroporas:

Red Sea Regal Angel?
Goldflake Angel?
Black Bandit Angel?
Flame Angel?
Potters Angel?

Also, will any of these fish nip or eat:
Florida Riccordeas?
Chalices?
Favias?

Thanks!

 

[sc50964]

All angels, except for bellus and swallowtail types, are time bombs waiting to happen in terms of eating corals.

 

[lynchmob3000]

Yah it's a gamble. When they do it's too late but I've got a reef buddy with a huge cube and nothing but wrasses and huge angels. Blue faced, emperors, queens and a bunch of others. And it's all sps. Now his polyp ext isn't the greatest that's for sure but he's got huge colonies from 10 years back

 

[lynchmob3000]

Flame usually no problems

 

[Whisperer]

Genicathus sp angels are generally SPS safe. I have tried swallowtail and Lamarck. No problem whatsoever. If this sp only have brighter colors...

 

[mhucasey]

I have Bellus and Swallowtail angels. Pretty fish, and slow growers, which is nice. They don't have any interest in corals or any other inverts.

 

[BrentH]

I have a bunch of angels with my sps as long as your tank is healthy it's not a prob ... Pe is affected a bit

 

[sc50964]

I have a bunch of angels with my sps as long as your tank is healthy it's not a prob ... Pe is affected a bit

Man. That's awesome. Pls share some pix.

 

[AcroporAddict]

I have a Blueline and a Goldflake angel in my 465 gallon SPS tank, and they are good citizens so far, and have been in the tank for a year + each.

I think one of the things you have to have is enough corals so if they do nip they will not hurt any single colony excessively, so how successful a large marine angel or two can be in a reef tank depends on the size and the number of colonies you have.

 

[Robby2782]

I had a gold flake in my system,a but my millepora wouldn't extend it's polyps because of the constant nipping. I don't think it harms the mille, but it definitely kept it's polyps retracted until I removed the angel.

 

[trueblackpercula]

You really can only keep them in large tanks, But from what i have read and from a few of my friends that have 350 gallon tanks and larger they always pick. as for the flame angel they pick the most and that is why I don't have them. The only angelfish that i have kept for a long time in my reef tank was a centropyge aurantius golden angel pair and they never picked not even on my clam.

 

[Arnel0387]

Tank will be at least 72-80"Lx36"Wx22"H

I'm removing the dwarf angels on my list so new angels list:

Red Sea Regal Angel
Goldflake Angel
Black Bandit Angel

Will these three angels get along fine?

 

[sc50964]

I think so. All are ones with mild temper plus I think they all belong to different genes.

 

[chema]

I currently keep a Red Sea Regal Angel, two flame angels, a female Genicanthus bellus, an Apolemichthys trimaculatus and a Centropyge aurantius. All of them behave like model citizens. I keep several species of Acroporas and Montiporas, Stylophoras, Seriatoporas and Euphyllias, and also two tridacnas. No problem at all.

In former times I had a C. potteri and it didn't bother any of my SPS.

The trick is to keep your fishes well fed. I give them flakes and NLS granules 7 times per day. Mysis, artemia and mussel every other evening.

Hope this helps

 

[trueblackpercula]

I currently keep a Red Sea Regal Angel, two flame angels, a female Genicanthus bellus, an Apolemichthys trimaculatus and a Centropyge aurantius. All of them behave like model citizens. I keep several species of Acroporas and Montiporas, Stylophoras, Seriatoporas and Euphyllias, and also two tridacnas. No problem at all.

In former times I had a C. potteri and it didn't bother any of my SPS.

The trick is to keep your fishes well fed. I give them flakes and NLS granules 7 times per day. Mysis, artemia and mussel every other evening.

Hope this helps

Thanks for the reply what size tank do you have?

 

[chema]

130 gallons, more or less. And around 30 more gallons in the sump

 

[Allmost]

get a pair of bandits, you will love them, great personality and not really a coral muncher ...

at least not with mine.

 

[sc50964]

get a pair of bandits, you will love them, great personality and not really a coral muncher ...

at least not with mine.

How easy is it to pair them up? It's hard enough to find even one so I wonder.

 

[Allmost]

How easy is it to pair them up? It's hard enough to find even one so I wonder.

what do you mean by pair them up ?

getting them to Spawn ? if that, then I have no Idea... probably not easy.

getting them to live side by side in a large tank ? then not that hard ... as long as introduced correctly [social acclimation] I have a local friend who just introduced the second one and had no ISsues to speak of.

 

[sc50964]

what do you mean by pair them up ?



getting them to Spawn ? if that, then I have no Idea... probably not easy.



getting them to live side by side in a large tank ? then not that hard ... as long as introduced correctly [social acclimation] I have a local friend who just introduced the second one and had no ISsues to speak of.

I misread your last message. I thought you said you got a pair.