Proper care for genicanthus

[iceh]

I've been recently thinking of making my "show piece" fish ie largest fish in my 90gal a genicanthus angel. I've thinned out the population to 0 fish atm due to some hardware upgrades and incompatibility. So my plan is a maybe a (bellus) angel, a couple anthias and some wrasses (one or two fairies/flashers).

My question is would one of these angels be happy in my 90gal for the forseeable future. I am not planning an upgrade anytime soon. But I suppose anything is possible.

If the answer is no, please suggest some other possibilities. I'm looking for something different, reef safe and peaceful.

Thanks in advance!

 

[rachenbrazil]

A healthy bellus would be fine in low pop 90g tank imo

 

[bradleyj]

I have 3 genicanthus angels in my 225g reef. All three of them dont mind being with any of my wrasses, although they all seem to have their own territory from each other. I have a bellus female, watanabie female and a swallow tail female. Any one of them would be fine.
I got a real nice picture of my swallow tail tonight stretching.

 

[SDguy]

Wow, Brad, you are getting really good at that! Great pic!

 

[bradleyj]

Thanks Peter.
Practice, practice, Practice. :fun2:
Every once in awhile I get Lucky.

 

[birch]

I have a female bellus in my 75 along with 3 resplendent anthias and a leopard wrasse. She is the boss for sure, but not aggressive. I agree that if you keep the fish stock low you will be good.

 

[betamed]

I've had back luck with genicanthus males, but I've kept a few females and they are great fish. Just make sure they are swimming well as they sometimes have swim bladder infections.

 

[iceh]

Wow Brad, that is one beautiful fish! That's a Genicanthus melanospilos? From what I can find the social heirarchy/sexual dimorphism seems to be quite complicated with the genicanthus angels...anyway around this if I wanted a proper male/female pair?