Flame angels and acropora?

[dwillingm]

Could I get some feedback on people who have kept Flame Angels in reef tanks with alot of acropora? I am trying to gauge how risky it would be to add a flame angel to a tank densely populated with acropora.

I feed and skim my tank very heavily, will this help keep the angel from eating coral?

 

[phoenix]

I have had a flame in my reef and no problem but I kept the tank fed well. The flame will need some food with sponge to thrive - this is available in frozen fish food products

 

[dwillingm]

Phoenix, Im not sure what you mean by "some food with the sponge". Thanks for the input.

 

[dwillingm]

Do you mean frozen food with sponges in it? I dont recall seeing that as an ingredient in my frozens foods. What foods do you recommend?

 

[phoenix]

Ocean nutrition makes an angel formula in frozen food cubes that I have used - I also feed a wide variety including mysis. spectrum pellets and nori

 

[CeeGee]

ocean nutrition also makes a pygmy angel formula.

 

[hanas]

I feed my flame the Ocean Nutrition and he loves it. Mine also doesn't bother with any of my acros, and the other corals I have.

 

[hanas]

I feed my flame the Ocean Nutrition and he loves it. Mine also doesn't bother with any of my acros, and the other corals I have.

 

[RichConley]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7386991#post7386991 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by phoenix
I have had a flame in my reef and no problem but I kept the tank fed well. The flame will need some food with sponge to thrive - this is available in frozen fish food products

Large angels need sponge, Centropyge needs algae.

Theres a poll somewhere on this forum that is this EXACT question. THe results were somewhere along the lines of 60% no problems, 20% occasional nip but doesnt really bother anything. 10% It eats one specific type of coral, 10% It nips everythign and I took it out.

 

[Greg129]

Are Dwarf Angels more prone to nipping/eating one category of coral than another? How would you rank them (soft, lps, sps)?

 

[finsurgeon]

My coral beauty nipped slowly at encrusting monti, gorgonians, pom-pom xenia, flame scallop mantle/tentacles, and a few other critters, but never killed anything. I just got a bit fed up and took him out. My flame angel is bigger, but hasn't touched anything during the 6 months they both were in my tank.

 

[mbunaman]

From what I observed with Pygmy angels of various types that they contstantly pick on the rocks for algae sometimes you will find an angel that will pick at the coral also. But its not trying to eat it. Its looking for algae. So the sps retracts its polyps and sometimes perishes from stress. Its a hit or miss with these things. Best thing to do is put him in another tank for the first month with some easy sps like montipora digita and see what happens. But this method might not always work either.