Corals & Angels

[ming69]

Just bought a yellow angel and was told that it's not very reef friendly.

Pls advise on what type is compatible. Also, does the angel feeds on seaweed?

Thanx!!

[mansiz]

Yes, angels are not reef friendly, it better to put them in a FOWLR tank, yes they do eat seaweeds.

Compatible you mean what type of corals? Mainly not much corals are compatible, try not to get polyps type, and try not to get open brains, and clams. I think mushroom should be ok.

[dleecool]

I used to have angels with LPS and all my pratas/cyna/blastos become my angels' lunches and dinners!!

[ming69]

Ok.....Guess I'll have to stick to zoos & mushrooms....

U think bubbles, alvepora, gonio..., are safe?

[leochngyh]

I used to have an angel also... keep nipping on my zoos.

[hammy]

i have a flame angel in my tank.

generally, it used to like meaty food like brain, cynarina,prata ,blasto, clams that kind.

recently tamn down a lot.

they are not reef safe and even though they do not nip now does not mean they will not in the future too.

general guideline is to feed them sufficient so that they have less chance to try the coral. a safer angel to add into a reef tank is most probably the argi angel.

[tazperlin]

u mean zoos & mushrooms r safe? with all kind of angel.

[ming69]

Auntie at Iwarna says should be ok with zoos & mushrooms when I asked if it's ok to have them with my yellow angel.

[leochngyh]

zoos, I dont think its safe.

[planetg]

I have an Emperor who loves my brain and acan. It's half-botak now! So beware.

[mansiz]

Alveopora and goniopora will not be safe if you intend to put an angel in. I have a damsel that kill my goniopora (even damsel also nip off it's tentacle one by one) OMG. Try not to get the above 2 corals. And alveopora is not cheap, you will have a heart pain if you buy it. Actually when they nip on corals/invert, I have this feeling that they are not hungry at all, just that they wanted to nip on it, it's their natural behaviour. Because I use to have a flame angel, it has been well fed and it's very fat. But it keeps nipping on my clam mantles, I tried 2 clams last time, one I put it on the sand bed, immediately it found the clam and start nipping, the other I put it on one high end corner, it took a few days for it to find it, and it start nipping also.

[Underwater]

Auntie at Iwarna says should be ok with zoos & mushrooms when I asked if it's ok to have them with my yellow angel.

l have a yellow angel that nipped on all my zoos and other meaty corals. So dun try, mushrooms for mine so far it didn't touch.

[ming69]

My yellow angel just went belly up this morning.

Lucky for the corals....

[gny]

When I change from fish only to LPS tank, my angels started to nip at my clams and other LPS.

I'm so angry that I decided to remove them once ond for all.

But the method I do is remove all LPS & some LRs.

Take one whole dam day.

Very siong....

From then on, NO more angels or other non-reef safe fish liao.

[Bali Brain]

Zoos are definitely not safe. Mushrooms, maybe depending on the Angel. Surprisingly Hammers are okay. My 4 different Angels avoid them.

[letdoit]

yes. zoa sure die. Hammers is ok.

Now been trying very hard to catch my Angel. How le?

keep on hide, don't eat my food and eat my zoa.

headache. how how how?

[Underwater]

yes. zoa sure die. Hammers is ok.

Now been trying very hard to catch my Angel. How le?

keep on hide, don't eat my food and eat my zoa.

headache. how how how?

l find that once an angel (esp the pygmy type like coral beauty) is released into the tank, it's very difficult to catch it again as it hide deep in the LR at night unless i remove all my lr to catch it. Siong!

[planetg]

angels are a touch-n-go kind of fish.

i have good citizens in

1. argi

2. flameback

3. flame

4. potter

until my wife wants an emperor! hehe

not so safe

1. emperor

2. koran

not sure (not observed enuff)

1. regal

[Skipper32]

siao liao...no wonder my zoos dn't open as before...thot was my light (2 of e T5s die off) wa lao...it will be big project to remove e angel 9just added not long after my coral beauty UTL)... hope this new comer...smaller in size stop wat it does best...