goldflake angel

[jminick2]

LFs has them for $265.00, anyone have experience with them in a reef?

 

[jminick2]

Good price, right?

 

[scooter31707]

No experience with them, but if he is eating and looks healthy, that will be a steal. They are an Angel, so it will be hit or miss with corals.

 

[GimpyFin]

Yes, that's a really good price. They are on the safer side for reef safe angels, but still a gamble. Gorgeous fish.

 

[d-man]

Mine left all existing corals in the tank alone including zoas. But any new lps other than euphyllias were toast.

 

[ThRoewer]

Mine left all existing corals in the tank alone including zoas. But any new lps other than euphyllias were toast.

I guess he saw anything added to the tank as food provided for him

 

[kmbyrnes]

I wouldn't trust it in a reef, but the price is great!
I scored this beauty about 9 months ago for $130.

 

[iced98lx]

Juvi or Adult?

 

[brett559]

I wouldn't trust it in a reef, but the price is great!
I scored this beauty about 9 months ago for $130.

Where? Local store? Beauty!

 

[kmbyrnes]

LFS in Mesa AZ. Was still juvi, now changing.
They have one in now that is twice the size, but its $400.
I'll wait for mine to grow at that price.

 

[brad]

Mine won't hurt healthy coral, but will nibble dying coral that otherwise would recover, especially lps. Much better to have the fish imo.

 

[ThRoewer]

LFS in Mesa AZ. Was still juvi, now changing.
They have one in now that is twice the size, but its $400.
I'll wait for mine to grow at that price.

Small ones will adapt better to tank life.

Also taking the small juveniles from the ocean has a far lesser impact than taking the large breeders. The juveniles will be replaced within weeks, but a breeding pair may take a year or more to establish.

 

[GriffinMarsh]

What shop in Phoenix? I guess it would also determine the LFS. There are some shops up there I trust and some I don't. But my gold flake didn't touch anything until about a year old. Then it decimated my acans, lobos, and fungia. It picks at SPS but doesn't destroy them.

 

[kmbyrnes]

Aquarium Arts in Mesa. I buy most my fish there.
I really like that they post the arrival date for all specimens on the tanks.
Makes it easy to skip a fish if has not been in the store long.
Of course since I make weekly rounds of 4 or 5 stores, I pretty much know what's new and what's not. Addiction sucks.