coral beauty

[listerofsmeg]

I have accidentally got a coral beauty! Here's the story:
I went to my LFS to buy some fish. At the till they gave me someone else's bag as well as my own! So when I got home I found a coral beauty! It was too late to take it back to the fish shop because they were closing soon and I live an hour away. So I acclimatised and released it into my tank (90litre... I know a bit small but what was I meant to do?)

Anyway, after several long hours over the next week trying to catch it and failing, I decided I would have to keep it. Yes, I know the tank is too small, but it's only a little fish and I plan to upgrade.

So... onto my question... as part of my upgrade, I plan to upgrade the lights to allow me to keep SPS and LPS corals. At the moment I only have softies.

My coral beauty has never touched my softies, do you think it's likely he would try to eat any SPS or LPS?

 

[Toddrtrex]

Hope that you are upgrading soon, 24 gallons is pretty small for any dwarf angels.

IME, coral beauties love to eat fleshy LPS.

Posted this in another thread but....

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[jrp1588]

I've had a coral beauty for a while now, and he has behaved quite nicely. I keep a close eye on him though

 

[listerofsmeg]

Hope that you are upgrading soon, 24 gallons is pretty small for any dwarf angels.

Yep upgrade will be happening ASAP.

So far he's been very well behaved considering he's in such a small tank.

 

[jrp1588]

Make sure he's well fed. I've read that discourages them from getting too curious about the corals.