Emperor angelfish with orange spot filefish and Duncan coral

[ml708]

I currently have 6 juvenile orange spot filefish in my sps tank together with a sea apple and Duncan coral. Thought of introducing a small emperor angelfish around 4-5in long to the tank, but I'm not sure if it will be aggressive towards the filefish and bite my corals and sea apple. From what I heard the angelfish normally targets brain coral so would this be safe?

[Terryz_]

You also another oddball keeper.. I think we will hit off very well. Haha..

Anyway not advisable due to the filefishes..

[ml708]

hahaha yeah! I love oddballs man. The angelfish will bite the filefish I'm guessing?

[Terryz_]

The emperor might be too daunting for the filefishes..

[ml708]

Too impressive looking hahaha

[Digiman]

Orange spot filefish is very difficult to keep alive. Local death rate of this fish in captivity is 99.99%.

Adding an emperor angelfish will accelerate the demise of the orange spot filefish.

I would suggest removing the orangespot filefish and keep the emperor angelfish instead. Emperor angelfish is easier and more longlived.

Emperor will do ok with the duncans.

[ml708]

Yeah I know the filefishes are hard to keep, but I have a dedicated sps tank for them to eat all they want. They are all healthy with fat bellies!

[Terryz_]

It is still better to get them wean on to pellets and mysis which is possible and also to ensure they dun wipe out the sps as these fishes will not finish up the whole sps, they actually know to attack parts of the sps and give recover time for the sps to regrow..

[ml708]

Yeah, I've coated acro frags with ocean gel and will feed them in the morning with it. Hopefully they will be more interested in it than my sps! They really like the Bali green slimer, ate like 50% of one of my 4in coral in less than a week!

[AroDan]

My emperor chases all others who try to go into her space in between 2 LR.

[ml708]

I have successfully weaned the filefish on frozen gel foods, and now they prefer it to the actual SPS haha. Decided not to get the emperor angel as it is such an aggressive fish.

[Terryz_]

That is good news make sure the frozen gel is having nutritious value to it or add make some yourself..

[ml708]

I believe its nutritious as I have fed the same food to my duncan and it grew. Its called Henry's reef gourmet, not sure if you have heard of it. Has zooplankton, crustaceans, spirulina, probiotics etc.

[ml708]

Do you make your own food for fishes? I'm quite keen to try making gel foods for them!

[Terryz_]

With henry's food you no need to make your own liao.. haha..

[cutebarra77]

Henry sells frozen gel food?

I thought it's frozen food...

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[diki88]

Henry sells frozen gel food?I thought it's frozen food...Sent from my LG-D802 using Tapatalk

Actually u can thaw henrys reef gourmet n mix it with unflavoured standard gelatin to bind the food n make it gel like.

[ml708]

It sticks really well to my acro frags even without gelatin haha

[Terryz_]

It is as sticky without the gelatin.. not sure if there are any side effects of using gelatin although it is still from algae.. without strong flow the food can stay at one spot quite well..

[ml708]

I asked Henry and he told me that he already adds gelatin to the food as a binder