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

[reefscape15]

I had a False Lemonpeel which never touched a thing in 6 months. Then added a Rusty which only sometimes nipped at my Anthellia. Sorry to say that both have passed due to the Rusty getting some fungus and spreading it to the False.

Now I have a Bi-Color about for 2 months, and it only has nipped at my Kenya trees. No damage seen, but the coral shrinks up for a few seconds, and then opens back up. Planning on a Flame very soon. I have mixed reef with SPS, LPS, Softies, Shrooms, Rics, and Zoas. No clams now, but plan on adding about 5 or 6 pretty soon.

 

[ILoveReefer]

2 Female Watanabei's (Genicanthus watanabei), the one in my avatar I've had for 2 1/2 years and the other about 2 years. Both perfect reef tank inhabitants. Mixed reef, was mostly LPS, now is mostly SPS, Never had any clams.
Reef Safe and good in a community tank (very passive)

 

[mullinsd2]

Coral Beauty
Reef safe
has not touched a coral in the tank... mixed reef..... also, he eats anything I throw at him!

 

[Elliott]

adult 10" Imperator in 300g mixed reef, likes candycanes, elegance and bright green frogspawn, not pale green frogspawn, leaves clams, other lps and sps alone, he's quite a character, grunts really loud, very tame, not afraid of anything, will let you pet him, wouldn't trade him for anything

 

[flfireman1]

Had two flame angels at seperate times, both seemed reef safe never causing any damage to corals.
Had a potters angel for about 8 months and it did some damage to m clams.
I now have a Regal angel for about 1 yr and I had to remove chalices and he completely ate an open brain. Also picks at zoas.
The regal is also housed with a coral beauty and the coral beauty has been a model citizen thus far.

 

[Wind Seeker]

Flame, Coral Beauty, Gold Flake, Potters, Swallow Tail.

almost 2 years of observation

All eat flake, pellet, mysis, live black worms.

All do not touch clams, sps, lps, mushrooms, zoos and leathers.

Great fish to observe.

 

[teo241]

3-4 inch coral beauty - kept with LPS, didn't nip, ate pellets/flake and anything else.

5 inch passer angel - kept with LPS, didn't nip. ate anything and everything, the boss of the tank

both fish kept for several years until had to teardown, found new homes

 

[Beaun]

Pygmy Cherub Angel

Mixed reef, no problems

 

[maynardjames]

male swallow tail . never messes with anything except puple tang. mixed reef. had him about a year
had flame for 2 years never bothered anything. lost due to power outage along with female swallow tail. she never bothered anything either

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

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[LobsterOfJustice]

make sure to check the notes as well...

more or less what i'm trying to do is: if it eats one particular type of coral, like elegance, or anthelia, call it safe but include that in the notes. If it eats a major group of coral (SPS, LPS, soft), its classified as unsafe. Also see that angels living only with certain corals are noted in the notes section.

 

[sminker]

update to my old post

Koran (NOT REEF SAFE)

polyp extension on new SPS would diminish after a week. found out why. my stupid KORAN decided to eat the polyps.

i bought a beautiful Blue milli and within 30 minutes it was at full polyp extension, 1 hour later the KORAN was tearing it up. it literally ate almost every polyp within one day. and this was a smaller KORAN.

 

[Leakyreef]

Blue face angel in 180 mixed reef. Loves zoos. Has never touched sps, clams, or lps

 

[chaungo]

cherub pygmy angel-5 years, never touched anything
potter's angel-4 years, only picked at feather dusters

Both lived with SPS, LPS, and softies.

 

[gildorph]

Regal Angel
Flame Angel
Coral Beauty Angel

CB - Reef Safe
Flame - nips at clams; otherwise reef compatible

Regal - eats zoanthids and some LPS (e.g. duncans) but ok with leathers; SPS; and other LPS

 

[tangtang clown]

Coral Beauty
Lemonpeel

Neither have touched a coral. Both eat flakes, pellets, mysis, and other stuff.

 

[stumpovrtyme]

Koran angel and a flame angel. Had to get rid of the koran because of space but he never bothered anything in my softie tank but I also feed alot. The flame has to be one of my most favorite fish. So beautiful and seems to be very peacful.

 

[The Escaped Ape]

Flame Angel, which I owned for 6 months, until I bought some stylophora. It immediately started picking at it, so the fish went back to the LFS

 

[espocrespo]

1. Fishers Angel
2. Completely Reef Safe (touch wood)
3. keep with softies such as zoa's rics leathers and lps such as hammer coral and blasto's

 

[Aquarist007]

I have a cream angel that has taking al liking to coral if it is placed on the substrate--anywhere else it leaves it alone. Now this has to be an out of the box answer for this thread