Flame angle ok for reef

[TriggerThis]

let me tell you my story:

I bought one from a guy with a fully grown reef tank. Tons of everything
I put it in my newish tank.
After two months, he ran out of critters, wroms and pods in the tank to pick at all day long. (they pick all day long)
Thats when he turned to my corals (which I didn't have alot of yet) to fill his time picking at.
It took me three months to catch him out of a 100gal. tank, and in that time that $50 fish took out over $300 in rare corals. And I had to tear down half the tank to get to him.
It was basically like starting the tank all over again. Half my corals were dead, my rock scape was jacked and while we were catching it, the tangs got stressed out and started an ICH outbreak in the tank which almost killed half my fish.

So I would say yes get one it all that sounds good to you.
Oh and he was fed TONS of food twice a day and still preferred eating sps polyps and plate corals, even brain corals.

If you dont have a Really well established, large tank, with lots of large corals in it, and lots of really established/old live rock don't get one.
When he runs out of stuff to pick at, your corals will be next.

Hope that helps

 

[Tek]

I just tore my tank apart to catch the Flame. All of my SPS and live rock are in buckets but the terror Flame angel named Igor has now been removed.
Some of my SPS stopped growing and others stopped showing PE. Such a beautiful fish but such destruction.

 

[TheAcroholic]

Flame angel I have found to be reef safe in my tank. I have a 120 though, so if it does nip at corals it isn't noticed because there are so many. In a smaller tank it may be an issue. What size tank do you have?

 

[TriggerThis]

I had a 100gal and coral growth came to a screeching halt Bc everything was being nipped all the time. 70% of the time there was never any damage, it would just make the coral retract everything ALL DAY LONG then when it would slowly start to put it's polyps back out Bam he'd hit it again and make it close. Nothing grew in the tank

 

[saltyhog]

Not a flame but my flame back was ok for about 2 months and then he started eating acans and duncans. I was lucky, it only took me two days to catch him.

 

[LARRY007]

Putting them In Is easy getting them out Is the hard part . I went with a Japanese swallowtail It been In the tank a week I have not seen It touch the clam or coral buy time will tell
125 g mix reef

 

[Eckolancer]

Currently I have a flame in my sps acan tank he doesn't even look at the corals. I had a bicolor in my last tank was good for 5 years then I added a queen. Queen was good for about 2 weeks then started eating all my zoas also taught my bicolor to eat them. Ended up removing both and lost 1000s of zoas before I got them out. That being said my friend put a queen, emporator, blueface, and bluelined all in a sps with zoas tank has not has any issues in the last 3-5 years it's been up.

 

[Elchicano]

Well let the fun begin.

 

[Eckolancer]

Looks like a healthy one

 

[fishroomlady]

I disagree, I think it looks stressed with some torn fins....

 

[Elchicano]

If he is stressed its only because he was purchased today. Has not been added to the tank yet. He still in acclimation container.