Is there a way to make an emperor angelfish as reef safe as possible?

[flash99]

I know all angelfish can not be entirely reef safe,but is there a way to make it not pick at corals what so ever or maybe make it not pick at corals very often?

 

[SDguy]

Put him in a tank next to the reef?

 

[spieszak]

100% reef safe when housed in a FOWLR

 

[flash99]

Would feeding it through out the day in little amounts keep it full enough to have it not pick at corals?

 

[spieszak]

What's your favorite food? If someone gave you a little of your "second" favorite food multiple times throughout the day, but your favorite was sitting there in front of you the whole time...
They nip at corals because they like corals.. doesn't mean they won't eat other things, but they like corals. There are various degrees of reef safe, and I've seen posts of angels that don't nip, or whose owners think the nipping improves growth... but the like corals.. so with an angel there's not training them to not like coral, you might get lucky, you might not... risk/reward

 

[sanchoy]

no way

 

[Angel*Fish]

If there are certain bad tasting corals they don't care for, you might look into that.

 

[israel.kendall]

You just need enough very large colonies to where it doesn't matter that the fish snacks on them.

 

[MrTuskfish]

You cannot change the genetic programming of a fish.

 

[luckydog104]

I dont have an emperor but my koran seems to only pick at lps , zoo's , xenia , and some anemone. Guess I should have said everything except sps corals haha.

 

[snorvich]

You cannot change the genetic programming of a fish.

Yup.