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[Vince272992]

Hi I am ordering a 2in lamarks on live aquaria today and I have a 1.5-2in flame angel on hold in my LFS, due to traveling I have to go get the flame tomorrow and the lamarks will not show until Monday or Tuesday, is this ok or will this end bad.

Also while we r on topic how reef safe are flames in your experience

 

[DustyReefer]

How big is the tank, and flames are pretty reef safe although they may nip at clams. So if you have any just watch out for that.

 

[tmulrney]

I had a flame angel that was nipping/eating my acans and other LPS. It was months of acans that would die and LPS corals that didn't look great before I finally caught the fish doing it. He just went from coral to coral nipping away right in front of my horrified face one day.
He's in a friends tank now, needless to say.

 

[Vince272992]

Tanks a 125 reef with SPS lots of LPS and sme soft including lots of zoas, will add clam and anemine later but and wht do u exactly mean by LPS I want to know which he is prone to pick at, and wht about the first Q....
THANS

 

[michael_cb_125]

The flame should not bother the lamarcks. These two species have totally different feeding patterns, and as such should ignore each other. The flame with nip at the rocks and substrate, and the lamarcks will feed primarily from the water column.
As far as reef safeness goes, I have personally kept flames in reef tanks with great success, just keep them well fed.

~Michael

 

[Vince272992]

Ok thank u so much

 

[DustyReefer]

You'll find that keeping a lot of prone nippers from nipping is just keeping them fat.

 

[Vince272992]

I will defiantly do that haha

 

[Jasanden]

Careful I had a Flame angel with a taste for SPS.

 

[reefjunkie42]

IF you have LPS /SPS id say NO! most centropyge sp. nip/feed on coral in a NAURAL SETTIN AKA will not work. Maybe not right away but will eventually nip. As far as Lamarks or any Genicanthus SP. GOOOD to go these are planktenoic feeder eating from the water column..no picking on coral.

 

[reeferstace]

How big is your QT?

 

[michael_cb_125]

IF you have LPS /SPS id say NO! most centropyge sp. nip/feed on coral in a NAURAL SETTIN AKA will not work. Maybe not right away but will eventually nip. As far as Lamarks or any Genicanthus SP. GOOOD to go these are planktenoic feeder eating from the water column..no picking on coral.

Even if this is the case, our little fish our not being kept in a natural setting.

I have kept several different species of Centropyge and larger angels with both sps and lps with no issue over longer periods of time.

~Michael