Anyone have experience with Queen angels in SPS reef?

[Tft12]

I have a large adult queen angel in a pond style aquarium. I have a few small acro and montis growing in there but it’s really set up more as a FOWLR than a reef. The three acros that I have in there are doing well enough. When I put montis in there they are often ripped on their frag plug. Because the tank doesn’t have a viewing window I haven’t really ever caught any of the fish nipping any coral. I suspect the queen but I have no idea which large angel, or perhaps the Rock Beauty, is doing this. At some point all the fish in this “pond” will be transferred to normal tank with front viewing panel. So....does anyone have direct experience with queen angels in SPS reefs? I know the standard warnings about angels, in particular Caribbean ones, in reefs but I would like to hear from anyone with direct experience please.

 

[EmdeReef]

IME they will at least “taste” sps, definitely forget PE during the day. I’ve seen some that go after certain acros and leave some completely. Mucous damage is most common, then as they grow if they’ve developed a taste for acro they may do some more serious damage and kill a coral.

 

[EmdeReef]

FWIW I wouldn’t suspect the rock beauty munching on hard corals. Lps and softies are fair game. At least IME when I managed to get them to eat they largely ignored corals.