Coral Beauty Angel?

[Quiet Tempest]

I was wondering if there is any discernible differences between Fiji coral beauties and Indonesian coral beauties?

 

[IPowderBlueTang]

I purchase my coral beauty from a Vanuatu shipment from my Lfs, they had a Indonesia shipment with a few coral beauties. The Indo CB was not as nice looking as the vanatu CB. The colours on mine was more brighter and vibrant, the indo CB was a slightly duller coloration and the body stripes was not a sharp and the orange body was not as deep.
It cost more for the Vanuatu CB, but had to get it.
Indo or Fiji CB might be slight colour variation.

 

[aquariumkeeper1]

Agreed. The area the CB is from will affect it's coloring a bit. It won't be crazy different or anything, but one may have more orange opposed to purple, etc.

 

[Quiet Tempest]

My tank is still cycling but my daughter has been window shopping online with me and loves the coral beauty because "it looks like a sunset". She's 5.

I'd love to find a nice beauty for her when we're ready for stocking and was just wondering what variety would have the best coloration. Thanks for the heads up, guys. Any additional info would be appreciated!

 

[JamesJR]

There is very little regional color variation for coral beauty angels. You are more likely to see color variation in specimens from different depths than from different regions. The most beautiful specimen I ever had was from indonesia. As they mature they tend to get a lot more vivid coloration and this is especially true for males.

 

[Sheol]

It isn't really a great idea to add ANY Centropyge angel to a new tank, even Coral Beauty. i killed two before I learned my lessons. IMHO, angels need established tanks 4 to 6 ( 6 being better) to get a good start. Most Centropyge will graze on Hair & other nuisance algae. New tanks seldom have enough..
I'm sure someone will say I'm wrong, but this is my experience with them..

Matthew
PS. I don't mean to lecture either, sorry.

 

[Quiet Tempest]

4 to 6 what?

We're really just compiling a wish list at the moment. The tank isn't going to be ready for fish for a while yet. I'm content to take things nice a slow when it comes to stocking.

 

[Sheol]

Ack! What happened? I need to edit more.
4 to 6 months. Sorry, my bad.

Matthew

 

[Quiet Tempest]

LOL No worries.

I'm hoping it will have fully cycled this week or next so I can get a clean up crew in there. Won't start stocking with fish for a while yet.

 

[cherubfish pair]

Can someone show some pictures of how much grazable hair algae and other stuff is to make the tank exceptable for one or two Centropyge?

What I'm trying to say is my rock has been in my tank since last November and it's still bare. What can I do? Speed up the cycle with the cocktail shrimp method?

 

[Sheol]

LOL. You'd know if you had it, you would be asking how to get rid of all this ugly junk growing all over my tank"! Well, pretty close to that.
I don't think you need an actual algae farm, but you should have some visible patches of the stuff.

Matthew

 

[cherubfish pair]

I found a link to some grazable stuff:

http://reefcleaners.org/index.php?p...category_id=6&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=34

 

[sikk50]

I miss my Coral Beauty.

My GF named him Capt. Morgan because he riminded her of Parot Bay rum for some reason

 

[cherubfish pair]

I found a link to some grazable stuff:

http://reefcleaners.org/index.php?p...category_id=6&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=34

It says this stuff is for tangs, but do angels eat it too?