flame angels

[ashidiq]

does any reefer who has a flame angel who does not nibble on corals... if it does nibble on corals wat are then type on corals that it nibble on.

[Gouldian]

Mine doesn't.

I have closed brain, torch, frogspawn, plata and hammer.

I guess, it is a matter of individual fish. Some does it and some just doesn't. I am glad my doesn't.

[Gouldian]

Oh forgotten, I also have a flowerpot too.

Anyway, this is a pix of my happy family.

[flamey]

mine doesnt nibble on corals too..

like bro gouldian said i think its up to individual flame angel..

[ashidiq]

do u all think regular feeding will reduce the chances of flame angels nibbling on corals ?

[RAV-65]

do u all think regular feeding will reduce the chances of flame angels nibbling on corals ?

Yes bro, if your fishes are not hungry, chances they might not touch the corals, but I had an Emperor Juv who loves corals, have since removed it from my main tank....

[DeepBlue]

does any reefer who has a flame angel who does not nibble on corals...

me!

Have owned 2 flame angels so far....reef safe for me .

They get my vote....but they do bully smaller fishes....

[ashidiq]

ok i will be getting one !!! btw should i add it before or after a scopas tang ?

[patrick123]

I have a flame angel and a coral beauty in the same 6ft tank. Both of them are model citizen....except my blueface nip on corals once in a while.

[hamannbmw]

it seems like most flame angel doesnt nip on corals Can i say 80/20%, 80 is no....

[RAV-65]

My falme okay too... so far only got porblem with my emperor juv, one strategy is to keep ur angels well fed...

[ashidiq]

haha ok so the conclusion is like 80% of flame angels are reef safe ...

[marcvelous]

my juv emperor angel also like to nip on my tubeworms...

at first okay but later start to bite more and more.

so I catch and place in prison (aka beta box) and try to start to feed only pellets and hopefully make it understand only pellets are food

anyone got better idea pls let me know

[ashidiq]

i tink maybe for FLAME ANGEL is because they are hungry so they nib on corals (potato chips ). so feed them full full make them to full to even wanna nib on corals...

[Gouldian]

Yesterday, while I was scrubbing my tank, I accidently hit my hammer hard and causes several polyps to break and began floating around in the tank.

Suddenly, my Hippo Tang, Flame, Purple Fire and Maroon charges toward the floating polyps and began feeding. In a split seconds all of them spat out what they have just consumme and began "coughing".

So does it mean that Coral Polyps taste "BAD".

[ashidiq]

haha... so i think u are one lucky guy to have a flame angel who is reef safe.. any one saw flame angel lately ?

[ashidiq]

btw how about potteri angel ? does any reefer here has ones that nibs on coral ?

[Gouldian]

haha... so i think u are one lucky guy to have a flame angel who is reef safe.. any one saw flame angel lately ?

Last week saw some at ML. Henry has paired them liao.

[madmac]

btw how about potteri angel ? does any reefer here has ones that nibs on coral ?

I have a potteri and a golden... both quite ok.. there is always that occasional nib but not enough to stress out the coral... The potteri feeds off the tank glass walls and the LRs for algae and pods... an excellent fish as it keeps itself, ... a bit on the fierce side when it comes to its space.

Yesterday, I had to take out an Eibli dwarf... now if you ever see how and what this fish nibs on, you'll know what trouble is. A small word of advise, as pretty as it is, KEEP AWAY from the Eibli, me thinks its strictly for FOWLR keepers.

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[wts684]

My Flame angel never nip my coral at all since day 1.

[ashidiq]

look like flame angels are more guai... so i have concluded that 85 % of flame angels are reef safe if u managed to keep it well fed. any more feers have review about potteri angels ?

[desbug13]

always but....always die.

[ashidiq]

u mean your potteri always die ?

[ashidiq]

does anyone have pottery that is reef safe ?