Ubergroover
Engineer by day, Musician/golfer/reefer by night
My LFS says a flame angel is reef safe if you keep it fed...any one agree?
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GHsaltie
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Like any dwarf angel it's luck of the draw if you get one who doesn't pick on corals. There have been some who have had one for months no problem until it suddenly decided it had a taste for coral.
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Ubergroover
Engineer by day, Musician/golfer/reefer by night
love to have one..but not if he is gonna chow on my corals...
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Ubergroover
Engineer by day, Musician/golfer/reefer by night
do they have an appetite for any particular types of coral?
It's a hard decision for sure. I love fish as much as coral so I've gambled a few times, lol. Sometimes you loose. The coral beauty was always a model citizen. I had a flame that did well too but it can change in one day.
"Meatier" LPS are the most likely to end up on the dessert menu from what I've heard - trachys, scolies, acans . . .
~Bruce, whose flame angel only ever picked on one coral - a Favia
~Bruce, whose flame angel only ever picked on one coral - a Favia
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Ubergroover
Engineer by day, Musician/golfer/reefer by night
got em all...ok an idea for FOWLR tank...not this one...Thanks all
sh4ne88
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My experience is if they are stressed like with introducing a new fish in the tank they could pick on coral (my argi does) but it was like a couple of bites after that never saw him do it again only algea al day [emoji1360]
4FordFamily
Tang, Angel, and Wrasse Nerd!
Definitely not reef safe although perhaps half of them will leave MOST coral alone. It's 50/50 and can change in an instant.
alex.mccann99
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As others have said, total hit or miss. I've had two of them, first one was awesome, but contracted ich and died. 2nd one was a total a$$hole and terrorized everyone in the tank. Then one day went to town on some Zoas and started nipping my two Clams. Sold him for 20 bucks to a friend with a FOWLR tank.
Salty1962
Wrasse and SPS Lover
I know of many folks who have purchased them and they start off as model citizens only to turn into holy terrors. They would nip at the SPS corals just enough for them to never open up and clean out LPS and Zoa colonies. They also became very aggressive to the other livestock in the tank. JME
Tapio
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If it comes from the reef, it eats something in the reef so nothing is reef safe. With that said, I have had dwarf angels including flames in my reefs for years. Your choice to decide what you want them to pick on. Great fish and beautiful. Currently I have chosen not to have Centropyges. SPS reef.
Susan Bates
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I have had one for years with no problems
Tim Olson
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I just got rid of my Golden Angel (Dwarf Angel), since it nipped at my hard corals and it also was very aggressive toward my Mandarin Dragonet. My tank really wasn't big enough to support both. I also target fed it quite a bit of frozen Mysis, which it loved, hoping it would stop it from bothering my corals, but it didn't work.
The only way I would consider a Dwarf Angel again is if I got a much bigger tank.
Hope this helps
The only way I would consider a Dwarf Angel again is if I got a much bigger tank.
Hope this helps
JasPR
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Hit or miss. And to make things worse, I've seen "non-nippers" taken from one aquarium to another, start nipping behavior in the new home! the problem of course is that in the wild they nip and graze all over a 50 yard area. In closed box, even the 'casual sampler' is a clean and present danger.
