Your favorite Reef Safe Dwarf Angelfish?

[visoredge]

What would be your favorite choice for a reef friendly 37g tank?

I've had flame angels in the past, but was thinking of something new... Maybe coral beauty? Rock Beauty?

Any other suggestions?

False lemonpeel?

 

[mr pink floyd]

i hada pygmy in a 29 with some softies, it was a good fish, then it caught ich, i loved that fish, but i cant brign myself to get another one.

 

[reeformadness]

Japanese Swallow Angels...not quite as good as it sounds but these are nice and reef safe

 

[Snowboarder2757]

I love my coral beauty

 

[Sports Girl]

I love my Coral Beauty, Jub-Jub! He is the social butterfly of my tank.

 

[Paintbug]

CB here. although i like the bright colors of a flame angle as well.

 

[smatter]

Is there a "reef safe" pygmy? The swallowtails are planktivores so they would do, too big for a 37 though.

 

[ACBlinky]

IMHO there's no such thing as a 'reef-safe' Centropyge angel. They're a gamble - some nip corals, some don't, and some start after years of ignoring the corals. The risk is worth it to me, they're wonderful fish.
I've got a flame, a coral beauty and a cherub in my 65g, all well behaved but there are occasional incidents of nipping that do no noticable damage, and a white-tailed pygmy in my 30g who doesn't even look at the corals. The cherub is probably my favourite of the bunch, he's such a spunky little guy and has the most adorable face - he could eat every coral in the tank and I'd forgive him

 

[jwedehase]

Watanabe? They're pretty. Or is that the same as the swallowtail?

Stay away from lemonpeels, I'd suggest. I had a hybrid half-black/lemonpeel that was a coral eating menace. I had to remove all my rock to get him out. I later found out that lemonpeels have a reputation for being the worst angel when it comes to coral pecking.

 

[sloshes]

My coral beauty was a nightmare and I hope it burns in.....all right I don't hope that but I'm glad I'm rid of it.

 

[sloshes]

BTW, my lfs buddy told me mine was a 1 in a hundred experience. Lucky me.

 

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7216322#post7216322 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reeformadness
Japanese Swallow Angels...not quite as good as it sounds but these are nice and reef safe

swallowtail angelfish get to 6" or so...so too big for a 29g.
I have a male that is now a little more than 4" and he's young.

 

[Fade]

I have a flame-eblie-charub-and flame back all modal citizans. The flame back is my fav.

 

[Samala]

The cherub is probably my favourite of the bunch, he's such a spunky little guy and has the most adorable face - he could eat every coral in the tank and I'd forgive him.

Blinky thats totally how I feel about mine! Course, I dont have coral, but my pygmy is very well behaved around decorative macros and seagrass. A big algae flake pig.

>Sarah

 

[Purple Haze]

Interruptus

 

[phlipper84]

I have a brazilian flameback. In all the tanks I have kept I have never had a problem with either the cherub pygmy or the flamebacks. On the other hand, I have never had a really good run with any flame angel I have tried.

 

[visoredge]

Would love to have a flameback, although I don't seem to see them around in the LFS around here... Maybe I'll get a Coralbeauty.

ANyone try a RUSTY angel before?

 

[Nate58]

flame back

 

[SuperNerd]

Cherub also. Mine never bothered any corals but there they were always well fed.

 

[Tunguska]

My cherub angel has been an ideal citizen in my 55 reef.