Angle fish

[Giants13]

Most angle fish will people say "might" nip at your corals. Has anyone had luck with angle fish ?

 

[thegrun]

I have had two flame angels, one for 5 years the newest one for only 6 months that have not picked at corals, but I know several friends who have had problems with both Flame Angels and Coral Beauties. If I had to take a guess it is probably at best a 50% chance of any Angel being reef safe.

 

[Giants13]

what did they do once they found out the angle fish was nipping at the coral??

 

[thegrun]

They had to catch and remove the offending fish.

 

[figuerres]

also Cherub Pygmy Angelfish, Centropyge argi - I have two and so far no problems with them.
the large angels are so big you need a huge tank for them. the cherub stays small.

 

[neededahobby]

so we can try it as long as the LFS will take it back?
I really want a dwarf angel eventually - just have softies so I am hoping it will work.

For people who had angel that nipped - was it immediate or did it take awhile and just become noticeable when you bought a nice new expensive one?

 

[Bent]

Most angle fish will people say "might" nip at your corals. Has anyone had luck with angle fish ?

It really depends on if they are acute, or obtuse.

I'm sorry, I had to.

 

[Conor_K]

Right on....

Couldn't resist. Bent started it...

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

My last flame was fine for about 5 years before he started destroying coral.

 

[Matt.C]

It is luck of the draw IMO. If you're willing to stock your tank around the angel then you should be fine, fleshy LPS such as acans and trachyphyllias usually gets nipped.

Saying that I have had a coral beauty for 3 years, 2 of those years were in a mixed reef tank that had scolymias, acanthophyllias etc, she never nipped at anything but the slime of my SPS.

However now i'm 99% SPS because i have a tinkers butterfly, regal angel and a goldflake angel, so the LPS had to go!

If you have a softie tank or SPS tank then personally i wouldn't be that concerned about the nipping.

 

[theMatrix]

Added a koran angel and really has no interest in corals...i keep him and his mates pretty busy with other food sources.

Started gluing frags to rocks...and the fish jus stoped caring to pick at the frags

 

[thegrun]

One thing that I have done that I would highly recommend is to place a few frags of assorted corals in your quarantine tank with the angel (after it has finished the quarantine period) and see how it does with corals before you release it into your display tank. Obviously if it starts chowing down on your coral frags don't put it into your DT, but if it goes a week without nipping at the corals you have a decent chance of it being okay, although some will initially be reef safe only to start nipping after a year or two.

 

[Giants13]

so if i were to take a chance on one what one should it be??

 

[hkgar]

Like others, I have had good luck with Flame AnGELS and Coral Beauty and no coral nipping in my SPS tank.

I have a Spot Breast Angel. They are a large angel that is considered reef safe and she is behaving.

 

[JammyBirch]

also Cherub Pygmy Angelfish, Centropyge argi - I have two and so far no problems with them.
the large angels are so big you need a huge tank for them. the cherub stays small.

I have a cherub too, no problems at all.

 

[figuerres]

I have a cherub too, no problems at all.

Also if you have a large tank you can have more than one cherub in a tank.

 

[nuxx]

Bellus Angels are a pretty reef safe angel.

Looking at adding a Bandit and Clarion to our mixed reef. I know LPS and Zoas might be on the menu...

 

[jrp1588]

It really depends on if they are acute, or obtuse.

I'm sorry, I had to.

Hey now, making hilarious yet unhelpful posts is my territory. Anyway, I've had 2 different coral beauties without issues.