The angel thread to end all angel threads: all owners of angelfish in reefs respond!!

Had a Flame Angel, no issues with corals, got picked on by other fish, final caught and traded in after 1 month.
Had a Coral Beauty, no issues with corals, picked at anemone, gave to friend after 2 months.
90 gallon mixed reef
Thanks for the info
 
Awesome info and very helpful with my future decision to add an Angel! Thanks for putting that together. While it's still a gamble, I like the calculated risk much better.
 
Regal, asfur, queen, scribbled, emperor, blue ring, majestic, blue face

Safe:
frog
tourch
sps
elegance
hammer
Large mushrooms


Gonners:

zoas
polys
small mushrooms
feather duster
 
Lamarck's Angelfish (Genicanthus lamarck)

I haven't seen pick at anything

Eats mysis/brine and pellets

Singapore Angelfish (Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus)

Nips on sps but mostly stylophora's and I've noticed no visible damage

Never seen it eat anything I've fed

Also it has never bothered my clams or LPS
 
I had a Flame Angel that left most things alone....zoas, torches, candycane etc. But it ate GSP, and tore apart a small colony I had
 
Excellent thread! So, let's see ....

LemonPeel, only had one - a holy terror - clams, LPS, SPS and Zoos
Asfur, only had one - ate majanos and aptasis ..... and zoos.
Red Sea Regal - model citizen
Indo Regal - ate zoos (though only after Asfur taught him how :()
Flame, have had five - three were model citizens; two picked on LPS
Potters, have had two - first one well behaved; second too new to say
Coral Beauty - nipped on LPS a bit, not too bad though
Eibli - awesome fish, but did pick some on clams and LPS.
 
65g, sps and some lps. crocea clam. 1 flame, 1 argi, 1 watanabe and 1 potteri.
potteri wreacking havoc in lps (chalices) and clam. not only picking, but tearing apart... everybody else safe till now.

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Here's what I have experienced
small Chrysurus Angel fine till it got larger then killed zoo's ,hammers,favias,
lemonpeel destroyed Acanastrea and cycloseris fungia, never again
flame angel now picking on fungia plate.
Eibli no problems ever.
African flameback, no problems at all
coral beauty,no problems at all

FYI don't put a True Falcula butterfly in a reef tank ever or a med./lge chrysurus angel.
 
OK I'll add a little more info.

I'm on my 4th Majestic Angle in many years. Again I've had no issue with any of them. Always seem to be model citizens once you get them to eat. Mine eats pellets and froxen.

Singapore Angles. Recently picked up three of them. So far no issues. Once acclimated and eating, they seem fine. They too eat pellets and frozen.

Currently the tank only has some LPS and Zoa's in it.
 
coral beauty angel, picked on my war coral and sunset monti almost within 3 days of putting it in the tank .. never again!
 
I'm not sure if I've already commented, if not, here goes:

Klein Butterfly, eats zoas, pulsing xenia and pretty much anything he can get. This includes asterina starfish (arms), hair algae, pods and the green algae you get on the glass! I will never put him in my main display tank!
 
I searched the thread for the Gray Poma Angel (Chaetodontoplus melanosoma) and it didn't pull anything up. Anyone with experience in a reef with one or its cousin the Blue Spotted Angel?
 
Juvenile Queen angel
Two years in a 75 gallon with kenya trees, zoanthids, bubble tip anemones. Kept
It thru adult coloration, about 6 inches, before I had to move and
Sell the tank.

Juvenile French, Emperor and Rock Beauty.
One year in a 125 gallon with red bta, zoanthids, monte cap, sps, no problems.
Then, another move.

New reef, 120 gallon. (Finally, a real reef tank!). Juvenile Rock Beauty 2 months. LPS dominated
Reef. Zoanthids, Palyzoas, Favia, acans, moon coral, trumpet coral,
Duncans, Candy cane, Torch, Frogspawn, monte caps, a few acros.
No problems......yet.
Planning to add a Majestic/Navarchus.
 
Thanks for working on this! I'm going to give that bicolor a try now.

Just an idea: Place varying weight with reports based on length of ownership. I'd be more interested with how these fish behave in a tank after being in there for a year more so than a month. Not exactly sure how you'd do it, but I know it would be more work.
 
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