Looking for a reef safe angelfish

reefknight · Dec 8, 2015

My Golden is far from a model citizen for SPS's. Occasionally nips LPS but doesn't touch Z n P'z or any other soft coral at all. Look at setting up another tank soon, so he's going to make a move.

loglan · Dec 8, 2015

Had a potters and loved him. Never seen him nip at any of my corals in my sps tank. Had him for a year before I sadly lost him. I plan on getting another and hoping I didn't have the only one that was a good citizen. Lol.

blackgrouper79 · Dec 8, 2015

shawncp00 said:
I've had this beauty for a few weeks, he's been pecking at my stunner chalice, which is ok because it's the size of a basketball. But he's my favorite fish (other than my purple). Plus I couldn't pass up a 6" majestic for 120. The other sad thing is he only eats flakes nothing else.

yea I'd have a hard time passing him up for that retail price

Crna · Dec 9, 2015

My lfs had an African flameback recently, and I wanted that fish so bad! I've always been fascinated with angels, but haven't gotten up the nerve to try one yet....

reef-treasure · Dec 9, 2015

even tangs can pick on corals sometimes. I've had that happen. It's hard to predict.

billwill · Dec 9, 2015

I've had a large blue faced angel for about a year now. Absolutely beautiful! Doesn't seem to bother anyone.

twon8 · Dec 9, 2015

reef-treasure said:
even tangs can pick on corals sometimes. I've had that happen. It's hard to predict.

True words. My powder brown started eating a green polyp leather.

loumaggs · Dec 11, 2015

reef-treasure said:
even tangs can pick on corals sometimes. I've had that happen. It's hard to predict.

What tang?
My foxface loves acans

eschulist · Dec 14, 2015

I've kept pygmys and flamebacks a couple times. I recently had the opportunity to get a well conditioned venustus directly from Kevin at Diver's Den so I sold the flameback. The venutus is amazing. Still nibbles at a brain or two but hasn't caused any major damage.

Easily my favorite fish!

JBB · Dec 14, 2015

Added my pair over the weekend

aandfsoccr04 · Dec 14, 2015

alin2 said:
I love my mated pair of Watanabei angels. They should be reef safe as I am in the early stages of my rebuild and don't currently have any corals in the tank.

Would love to see some photos of yours and hear more about whether you bought them as a male and female or two females and paired them up by yourself. Where did you get them from?

loumaggs · Dec 15, 2015

JBB said:
Added my pair over the weekend

Very nice

loumaggs · Dec 17, 2015

eschulist said:
I've kept pygmys and flamebacks a couple times. I recently had the opportunity to get a well conditioned venustus directly from Kevin at Diver's Den so I sold the flameback. The venutus is amazing. Still nibbles at a brain or two but hasn't caused any major damage.

Easily my favorite fish!

These can be tricky, how long have you had her

Waters · Dec 17, 2015

loumaggs said:
What tang?
My foxface loves acans

I had to remove my Foxface after being a model citizen for almost 6 months. I made the mistake of trying a Golden Angel who taught the Foxface how to eat LPS

eschulist · Dec 17, 2015

loumaggs said:
These can be tricky, how long have you had her

Almost 2 months so far. She eats everything I've fed from mysis, brine, calanus, pellets to flakes. All the difficulties with the fish usually have to do with getting it to eat prepared foods.

Quinn123 · Dec 17, 2015

have a pair of Japanese swallow tail and a pair of hawaiian zebra swallow tail in my 144 reef tank.

oneyedfish · Dec 17, 2015

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loumaggs · Dec 17, 2015

eschulist said:
Almost 2 months so far. She eats everything I've fed from mysis, brine, calanus, pellets to flakes. All the difficulties with the fish usually have to do with getting it to eat prepared foods.

Thats really good

ChrisAndJulie2012 · Dec 19, 2015

Just picked up a BiColor Angel, and its a beautiful fish in my tank. I dont have much for corals, just a hammer and a xenia and he seems to leave them alone so far.