Potters with Golden Angel?

[Vac7369]

So I've been doing as much research as I can to find the answers if you can have more than one dwarf angel in a tank. People say yes and others say no. I have a 90g reef packed with SPS and my Potters is awesome. Im yet to see him nip at corals or my clams. I am thinking of adding the Golden. He is small so I was going to use my acclimation box I use when I add fairy wrasses to the tank.

What are your thoughts?

 

[Stevenliu9]

I have two dwarf angel in my 180 reef no problem among the fish or between them and the coral/inverts. I have a flame and an African flameback.

 

[Daniel62]

I had this pair for a while, they did well. However the golden is a very shy fish and you may not see much of him. But they are very beautiful, and I always considered it a treat when I saw him. They were in a 75 mix reef

 

[Vac7369]

The Potters has been in the tank for quite some time but does not run the show. that goes to my lavender tang. I was also going to add other fish to the tank to mix it up for everyone. Was looking to add a blue dot jawfish and either a magnificent fox face or 3 barttlets anthias. What do you guys think?

Other fish:
Pair of clowns
Yellow tang
Lavender tang
Potters
Diamond Goby
2x Hooded Wrasses
Flame Wrasse
Red Head Solon Wrasse
Long Nose Hawk
Mandarin Goby
Pajama Cardinal

 

[Toddrtrex]

I tried it years ago, and it was awful. The potters went nuts. Even scratched the heck out of itself trying to get through the egg crate to kill the golden. This potters was fine with other dwarfs ((Venustus and Coral Beauty )), but the coloring was too similar for those 2 to get along.

For your tank, it appears to have a very high bioload, and lots of active fish. IMO/E, that will be too much for such a shy fish as a golden. I personally would pass.

 

[Vac7369]

I'll still look I to more research on the two together. I don't want to put the golden in the tank if it's 99% certain death. He will come small so I could keep him in the acclimation box to let them get to know each other. If there is aggression I have another tank he can go in that is potter free

 

[george915]

Do you know if your potters is a male or female? I find that male potters is on the aggressive side. My male potters chases my other dwarf angelfish from time to time but not to a point of killing them. He has a mate in the same tank too so probably he is trying to chase away potential competitors. The female is very gentle.
I have a golden in another tank. No one, including large or small angelfish, pays attention to the golden in that tank .
The key to keep a golden successful is to make it comfortable so it can start eating. If you keep it in an acclimation box keep it short. A golden will not feel comfortable in a bare acclimation box.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Do you know if your potters is a male or female? I find that male potters is on the aggressive side. My male potters chases my other dwarf angelfish from time to time but not to a point of killing them. He has a mate in the same tank too so probably he is trying to chase away potential competitors. The female is very gentle.
I have a golden in another tank. No one, including large or small angelfish, pays attention to the golden in that tank .
The key to keep a golden successful is to make it comfortable so it can start eating. If you keep it in an acclimation box keep it short. A golden will not feel comfortable in a bare acclimation box.

Yeah, eating will be an issue.

In the 6 months that I had mine (( darn pink skunk clowns chased it into their S. haddoni )), I never once saw it actually eat prepared foods. Though it did put on weight. Having lots of mature live rock helps a great deal. I did, however, see it eating fleshy LPS.

 

[Vac7369]

I know a guy who raises pods and I will make sure to add some tomorrow and keep a steady flow coming. Anything i can add to the acclimation box to make it a little more comfortable for it? Ive seen people put PVC pieces and even red solo cups in them for fish to hide/sleep in. The tank have been up and running for about 5 years. As for the sexy of the potters.... how does one determine that?

 

[o2manyfish]

I have a pair of Goldens that I have had for close to 5 years now. They are very very shy. Spotting 1 of them in a month is a rare occurence. After my last crash, I thought I had lost both, and it was literally 15 months after the crash when all of sudden the larger one photo bombed a picture and I found out one was alive. And then a few months later the smaller one made a re-appearance. In 5 years of keeping them, they have not grown any larger. They never come out for any kinds of prepared foods. They survive purely by hunting underneath all the aquascaping. I think they are a beautiful fish. It's a special fish to me because I was present when the first one appeared in the United States. I have been keeping Golden's for the past 15 years and it's always a fish that you are never sure if it's in the tank, and then one day (after months and months) you can catch a glimpse of it.

Dave B

 

[Daniel62]

Great story Dave

 

[rssjsb]

I've had mine for about a year. It eats just fine - pellets and frozen. Bur otherwise I never see it. Nothing in the tank gives it a second glance, it's just cryptic.

QT is key to getting it to eat while you can still see it.