Reef safe fish?

[RevRoy]

I need to know which of my fish will probably have to go?

my fish list:
two P. Clowns
one Purple Pseudochromis
one Blue Tang
one Coral Beauty

My coral list:
Green Star polyps
Yellow polyps
Orange Zoos
Frogspawn
Xenia
Acropora
mushrooms

I have already been warned that I may need to get rid of the Coral Beauty.

will any of the others hurt my corals?

edit:
I also have a brown hermit and a Coral Banded Shrimp and turbo snails

 

[greystreet41]

I had a purple pseudo once that was very aggressive (towards other fish). I think it was the 2nd or 3rd fish had ever bought. Caution with the angel, too as mentioned in a different thread.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?siteid=21&pCatId=438

I think there is only one dwarf angel considered reef safe... bellus angel
http://www.fishfools.com/ReefTank-SPS/Fish/Bellus.htm
several local reefers have them. I'm sure there are a few others I'm just not aware of.

I also had a coral banded that was a murderer. I know he killed a couple fish before I got him out. I think for the mostpart they're suppose to be fine though...my luck that I got the homicidal one.

 

[fishdoc11]

From what I have read Centropyge angels(Coral Beauties, Flame angels etc...) are 50/50 when it comes to corals. Some are model citizens and some are terrors. The invertibrates usually affected are LPS and clams but that's usually....and read from books/online. I once had a flame that never touched anything. The one coral beauty I have owned was in a FO. The reason the Genicanthus angels(bellus, swallowtail etc....) are generally considered reef safe is because, unlike most other angels, they are planktivores meaning they take their food from the water column and not from the substrate/rock...ie they don't pick at stuff.

If it was me I would just watch everything and see what happens. If you notice things being closed up more than usual or dissapearing watching a little closer would be a good idea. Most of the time it seems when people have a fish picking they say "I have never seen it do anything" and then one day out of the blue they catch it....they are fast!
Fish are kind of like us in that they all have different personalities and are hard to predict sometimes.
hth, Chris

 

[Pickupman66]

agreed on the coral beauty. I had a singapore angel at one time which seemed like a model citizen, then it got a bit of an apetite for shrooms and it went from there. believe it or not, I even had a foxfaced rabbitfish that ate a large LTA after being encouraged by the singapore. I have a watanebei angel who is a close relative of the swallow tails. very very model fish. doesnt pick at rocks, and takes all food from the water column. they are a deeper living fish in the ocean so it works great. they psudo's can be rather mean. all other fish are fine IMO.