Do Angels Eat Anemones and SPS?
- Thread starter BigEZ77
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Mmm-hmmm. And even if they didn't eat the anemone, they might gig it into going walkabout, which might be disaster if it puts a tentacle into a powerhead.
My recommendation would be green star polyp, which will coat your rocks in 'green lawn', and purple and greenstripe mushrooms, which are discosoma species --- discosoma neglecta is also a pretty one with some bluish overtones, but not common in the hobby. These reproduce when cut, are nearly impossible to destroy and are probably as prolific as aiptasia. They'll coat everything in frilly color and whether or not your angels will nip them, I don't know. I'd at least either buy a large rock covered with them or use an eggcrate shield to protect your mushrooms while they grow abundant enough to withstand predation.
You MIGHT consider starting your tank without the angels, and get a good mushroom population before they go in. Fancy mushrooms might not survive the predation, but discosomas may well.
My recommendation would be green star polyp, which will coat your rocks in 'green lawn', and purple and greenstripe mushrooms, which are discosoma species --- discosoma neglecta is also a pretty one with some bluish overtones, but not common in the hobby. These reproduce when cut, are nearly impossible to destroy and are probably as prolific as aiptasia. They'll coat everything in frilly color and whether or not your angels will nip them, I don't know. I'd at least either buy a large rock covered with them or use an eggcrate shield to protect your mushrooms while they grow abundant enough to withstand predation.
You MIGHT consider starting your tank without the angels, and get a good mushroom population before they go in. Fancy mushrooms might not survive the predation, but discosomas may well.
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acsamples79
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I've had two different coral beauty Angels with a nem the first one was perfect and never caused me an issue with anything but jumped out of the tank one day. The second picked at my nem all the time and I could tell it wasn't happy. It finally moved around to different places and settled in the back where I couldn't see it. So I removed the coral beauty. A while later I had an emporer angel with the same lta in a much larger tank and never had any issues.
davehead86
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My CB when hungry enough will nip at everything. It leaves the nem alone but it does go after my GSP and Mushrooms. So yeah. Its getting sold back ASAP. I wish i hadent gotten it originally when I was just doing a fowlr.
shifty51008
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there are a few angels that are reef safe, so just do you research first.
swallowtails, bellus are a couple off the top of my head
swallowtails, bellus are a couple off the top of my head
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