Angels... in your SPS reef?

[danano]

Interesting... ever been tempted to add an angel into your prized SPS reef? I know I have, many times... and have resisted everytime.

But after seeing this thread... who knows

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.p...threadid=329317

[Joe_P]

Interesting...

What kind of angels would you be considering??

Was tempted to place a Emperor, Regal into my previous system....

[Achilles Tang]

You must be mad!

Angels are NOT reefsafe and statistics have proven it.

I value my clams, my 'pratas', LPS and SPS corals... no way I'm gonna take the risk!

[thioeh]

You can have this few angel if you wanted to try as they should be the only few type of angel that reef safe.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di...d=21&pCatId=348

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di...d=21&pCatId=341

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di...d=21&pCatId=413

[twrs]

Angels are my favorite! Some angels like genicanthus (100% herbivore species), asfur, maculosus, and french are relatively safe to add to your SPS tank. Guaranteed

[Creetin]

tts funny. mi flame very well behaved leh. does occasionally probe e sps frags though, but leaves the rest of the corals and clams alone.

mabbe its a stupid angel, hahaha!

[Dispar_Anthias]

Hmm tried passer, rock beauty, maculosus and emperor in a mixed reef and nothing happen.... Like they always say... a reef is not complete without an angel But now i am still looking for cortez angel which i doubt will ever arrive

[jd_n]

Think quite a couple of us had flame angels in our sps tank and so far so gd. Hmm... or r they naughty only when lights off

[Guinness]

Even the guy with the 20ft coral tank has quite a few Angels in there.

This rapid growth is also applicable to the many specimens of Angel fish hosted in this aquarium. A few mated pairs even formed: Pomacanthus imperator, Centropyge loriculus, and Apolemychtis xanthopunctatus. Some of them tend to feed off corals a little bit, but they rarely attack the same colony, so damage is not permanent.

But i think for the sake of kiasuism and the fact that many enthusiast spends thousands on their set up.... maybe better to be safe than sorry.....

[junyong84]

Flame Angels seems alrite wif corals... maybe they wld nibble at corals once a while? or are they just curious?

[thioeh]

I kept one blue lip angel with my LPS, Softies and Clam before, at first it nip at my clam and after 1 wk he tired and start to ignore even i introduce new clam inside, but not with anemones, will nip till it died.

[Michael Young]

LPS corals are more susceptible to attacks by angels than SPS corals.

I know some people who keep angels in their reef tanks and for a long time nothing happen; but one fine day, they just went crazy and started feasting on the corals. So, I guess its better to stay off angels.

[JustinK]

hey, how bout bicolour angel? think they are ok also...me kept one in my tank, mainly LPS and softies, but nothing happen, only nip at my rocks, then again, maybe i am jus super lucky... then today, when it was pecking on the rocks, kena stuck and now its disappeared, think it was injured, had to free it from the rock... think gone liao, and it was my favourite fish... haiz... so sad....