Paging all lemon peel owners

DrewBrees713 · Oct 14, 2016

Saw one today that goes for $40, eating well and has nice color. I know theyre somewhat hard to keep alive. I got all kinda of frozen foods, NLS pellets, frozen clam, mussel at the ready. Tons of LR too.

Should i get him huh, huh, should I

lewis.maryann08 · Oct 14, 2016

DrewBrees713 · Oct 14, 2016

Thank you for your invaluable inputs. Try not to break a sweat next time you type

Brautumn · Oct 14, 2016

We have one and she was picky at first and picked at the rocks quite a bit. She was afraid of the clip with algae so I would break some to float in the water and she would gobble it up and drop algae pellets. Mysis was another big thing to eat and after a month would eat anything that would go in. I posted a picture and she is in the back ground since she is impossible to get a picture of by herself.

sawdonkey · Oct 14, 2016

I've had one for 7 or so years. It's in with much more agrgressive fish and does fine. As a matter of fact, it's the biggest jerk in my tank. I've seen it chase my triggers, my naso tang, and even my adult emperor. She's the first to attack a new addition fish too. Eats everything I throw in.

DrewBrees713 · Oct 14, 2016

Wow so what's with the myth lemon peels are extremely fragile, hard to keep? I have a nice flame angel so will they get along fine?

eatbreakfast · Oct 15, 2016

They can be delicate their first few weeks, but already eating aggressively is half the battle. They are one of the Centropyge angels more prone to nip corals.

BigKid4788 · Oct 15, 2016

DrewBrees713 said:
Wow so what's with the myth lemon peels are extremely fragile, hard to keep? I have a nice flame angel so will they get along fine?

You may want to buy an acclimation box just to be sure. I've seen pygmy's go after a new addition pretty aggressively (mostly w/ coral beauty). What size is the tank you will be putting it in?

roberthu526 · Oct 15, 2016

I think one thing I learned is keep the QT in a private room. I keep mine in the home office where the kids don't come in often. It is empty most of the days and I have a security camera setup to monitor the tanks. Works really well for me.

Germ42 · Oct 15, 2016

Heck I had a lemon peel and he was nipping at my corals and clam so I had to pull him out, i couldn't find a home for him, and I went to petco and asked if they'd buy him or do a trade and I got 50$ for him lol.

However I will say, he has been at the local petco(aka disease city) for about 3 weeks and he has had no signs of ich or anything else. So they seem to be able to become resistant to ich well, or at least mine did lol

Brautumn · Oct 15, 2016

I put our lemon peel in with a pygmy angel and they did some tail swifting and chasing until they got over it but my pygmy wasn't happy in the beginning. The lemon peel picked at a couple corals in the beginning and once she adapted to the food she is fine now. Ours is beautiful as she has an orange cast in her body.

DrewBrees713 · Oct 15, 2016

Mine is a 4ft 125G FOWLER with plenty of nooks and crannies to hide in.

sawdonkey · Oct 15, 2016

Mine is definitely a coral nipper. My lemon peel and Picasso trigger tag teamed against my new mystery wrasse a few months ago and didn't let up until it was dead. It was the lemon peel showing the most aggression. Beautiful fish, but it's a real jerk.

DrewBrees713 · Oct 15, 2016

Ok i picked it up just now and about an hr into acclimation, half way thru the process. It ate a lil bit at the store so thats a plus.

DrewBrees713 · Oct 15, 2016

OMG my small YT is punking him non stop. I took him out and put him in a clear plastic shoe box floating in the tank. Stupid YT tank is still harassing as he can still see him. Will he eventually stop?
What should i do? Guys?

eatbreakfast · Oct 16, 2016

In most cases he will eventually stop after a day or so. If it doesn't one of them may need to be rehomed.

In the future, long acclimation can do more harm than good, as it exposes the fish to ammonia. I try to keep acclimation no longer than 20minutes.

DrewBrees713 · Oct 16, 2016

Youre right the YT stopped harrassing him. Im not really concern about the ammonia since i remove some water out of the bag and add more every 5-10 mins. Finally peace has returned

ca1ore · Oct 18, 2016

My LemonPeel was a royal pain to get eating - took almost two weeks to get it to take anything. If I had put it straight into the display it would have been a gonner. They can be problematic with corals, though my current one has been fine so far (stress, so far). Also have an Eibli, so waiting for a whole bunch of tigerpyge babies ....

Brautumn · Oct 18, 2016

Beautiful aquarium and I love your pyramid butterfly.

ca1ore said:
My LemonPeel was a royal pain to get eating - took almost two weeks to get it to take anything. If I had put it straight into the display it would have been a gonner. They can be problematic with corals, though my current one has been fine so far (stress, so far). Also have an Eibli, so waiting for a whole bunch of tigerpyge babies ....