Is "Coral Beauty", difficult to keep?

[Guest]

Is "Coral Beauty", difficult to keep? What does it eats, and what kind of characteritic of this fish? Cause my coral beauty is not eating. May anyone please help, thanks a lot............

[yuji]

i had a coral beauty once too, and it wasn't eating 2. i fed it frozen mysis shrimp and brine shrimps but it just doesn't eat. hmm.. maybe all coral beauties have an 'appetite' problem.

[yus75]

ive 2 coral beauty....both r doin fine n eatin well....

[Dispar_Anthias]

coral beauty are one of the more hardy dwarf angel

[desbug13]

I had problems with keeping coral beauty twice till the 3rd one. Preferrably no other angels kejiao it when newly introduced to the tank.

[harris]

my coral beauty been wif me for abt a year liao....everything oso whack

[desbug13]

yap. once it accustomed in ur tank, everything oso makan.

think the water para really has to be good toob4 u intro in. but nv put into a breeder tank cos it'll get more shocked n died earlier.

[erictck]

i have a coral beauty in my tank. so far, it's not eating pellets that i've given. But noticed that he eats the algae just like the tangs.

err... maybe my coral beauty is a little bit retarded..

[nicholasloh]

coral beauties are omnivores, mebbe half of the brain retarded, so nvr eat food except algae

[patrick123]

May be I'm lucky. Mine is the first batch added to the tank and is surviving very well. Eating frozen mysis and sometime pellets.

[Blenny]

saw mine nibbling my orange plate and open brain. will catch him and banish him into the sump. be careful.

anyone interested if i can catch him?? with me for 9 months already. o think it is ich proof. eating everything i feed in the tank

[sunny03]

saw mine nibbling my orange plate and open brain. will catch him and banish him into the sump. be careful.

anyone interested if i can catch him?? with me for 9 months already. o think it is ich proof. eating everything i feed in the tank

can i have it when you caught it ??

[Blenny]

pm me so that i remember when i catch hold of him

[solo]

Hi,

The main problem with coral beauty is getting it to eat.

I only managed to keep 1 alive & healthy after 8 attempts. Mine now eats anything I feed, including blood worm.

When buying look for one that's already feeding.

[Asfur]

Many problem happen with coral beauty and bicolor, i don't know where your LFS got the stock, but i believe at least half of them got the stock from indo and philipine, and i believe you must aware also that the fish comes from this area are cyanide caught. So problem happen if you got the poison fish. It is should be not hard to tempt coral beauty or even bicolor to eat, it may refuse to eat for several days to less than 1 week, don't worry it is normal, but they should soon eat after they feel secure in your tank. If not it mean something problem with your tank, either water parameter is bad or there is other fish that chasing them or could be your tank is too crowded for them.

[Gouldian]

I also feel that Coral Beauties are hardy and wonderful fish.

I notice most American books will put down this fish as problematic. Maybe because they want more ppl to buy their hawaiian angels such as flame.

In fact, if you see the pix in some of the books, their CB pictures are so dull while they flame is so brillant, talk about biased.

Personally, I feel that both are just as hardy and will take any food if introduce patiently.