Reef Safe Angels?

[macclellan]

Dana - I take it you're adding an angel to the 300? That would be sweet and a nice contrast to your other fish.

Donnie - I checked out that article and see the moves you were talking about - neat!

Again, what on Earth are you people talking about? I thought the topic here was reef safe angelfish. I do get your Galileo vs Copernican metaphor, and associated ramblings, but what has that to do with reef safe angel fish? I'm so confused. My mom said I could talk about angelfish here, not angels. This has nothing to do with anyone's world views. I will check with her again.

The original point that started the detour was that phylogenetics - the study of the evolutionary relatedness of organisms - might provide a systematic answer to the question "Which angels are reef-safe?" that would be both helpful for aquarists and interesting in its own right.

Donnie said he was nerding out; it's academic "rambling" (Galileo supported Copernican and both were heliocentrists, by the way). This ETRC forum occasionally has detours in its threads. Surely there's a slew of other threads on reef-safe angelfish with the lists of species and anecdotes you seem to be looking for, particularly in the "reef fishes" forum.

 

[TriMax]

So, I think I have heard "if you get one of this kind and it acts like the one I got, it will be reef safe" and "if you get one of this kind and it acts like the one I got, it will be reef safe for X years, but then it will eat the all the corals of this kind that you have".

I probably helped to muddy the waters, but have we reached a verdict? Is there a reef safe angel? I don't mean every single individual. We all know about rogue elephants - I mean, "buy this kind. You most likely will not be disappointed?
:hammer:

 

[modifyd]

My Coral Beauty loves SPS, but won't touch my LPS or softies, attitude is everything.

 

[macclellan]

Here's my favorite Angelfish, a marble koi. So far, she is reef safe.

 

[planejane]

Oh, that IS a beauty Joel.