Dwarf Angel Fanatics

[dnsfpl]

Every fish has its own characteristics therefore

No flaming please as every post is based on personal experience

Example are in RED

Fish Species:

Flame

Coral Beauty

Golden

No. of Attempts:

Successful at first attempt

Manage to keep alive after 3 attempts

Give up after 5 attempts

Adaptability/Behavior:

Swimming freely after introduce

Took a week before coming out from rock work

Spent most of the time within the rock work, come out during feeding time only

Temperament:

Aggressive towards similar dwarf angel

Aggressive towards smaller fish

Peaceful

Diet:

Everything

Pellets

Mysis

Reef Compatible:

100% reef safe

Nip on meaty corals eg brain, cynarina

Nip on zoa

Comments/Remarks:

Wonderful addition to any marine tank

Not suitable for beginner

Will never try again due to...

Thanks in advance for sharing

[dnsfpl]

let me get the ball rolling

Fish Species:

Flame

No. of Attempts:

Successful at second attempt

Adaptability/Behavior:

Took a week before coming out from rock work

Temperament:

Slight aggressive towards smaller fish

Diet:

Everything

Reef Compatible:

Nip on meaty corals eg brain, cynarina

Comments/Remarks:

My first dwarf angel

[dnsfpl]

Fish Species:

Midnight

No. of Attempts:

Successful at first attempt

Adaptability/Behavior:

Spent most of the time within the rock work, come out during feeding time only

Temperament:

Peaceful

Diet:

Everything

Reef Compatible:

100% reef safe but note that I do not have any meaty corals after the point of introduction

Comments/Remarks:

Shy & Peacful

[dnsfpl]

Fish Species:

Coral Beauty

No. of Attempts:

Successful at second attempt

Adaptability/Behavior:

Swimming freely after introduce

Temperament:

Aggressive towards newly added dwarf angel

Diet:

Everything

Reef Compatible:

100% reef safe but note that I do not have any meaty corals after the point of introduction

Comments/Remarks:

Very aggressive fish, one of the last few fish to be added. Chasing newly introduce dwarf angel, KOed my rusty.

[yikai]

Fish Species:

Flame

Coral Beauty

Bicolour angel

No. of Attempts:

flame - 2 attempts. 1st attempt died due to severe harrasment from coral beauty.

2nd attempt, died due to harrasment from the you know what fish

coral beauty - number of attempts, 1.

Bicolour - 1

Adaptability/Behavior:

flame - very hardy but refused to come out thanks to the.......

coral beauty - swimming like a big gangster with all other fishes at his/her disposal.

Bicolour - Never lived long enough. died within 3 hours from my coral beauty

Temperament:

Flame - Peaceful and docile

Coral beauty - Needless to say. even my 2.5inch damsel lived in fear.

Bicolour - I don't know. never lived long enough.

Diet:

flame - Pellets

Coral beauty - everything. including other fishes tails, fins, scales. he/she helps him/herself to it btw.

Reef Compatible:

flame - 100% reef safe

coral beauty - reef safe 100%. but fish safe only 60%

bicolour - Theoratically, not reef safe. Experience never gave me a chance.

Comments/Remarks:

flame - Wonderful addition to any marine tank

coral beauty - IMO, one of the easiest and starter dwarf angels if u get them healthy. however, u will slash your wrist and attempt suicide multiple attemps over if you are suay enough to get 1 that is as aggressive as mine. Not to mention crying your eyes out as you watch your <$10 fish killing your other fishes that are worth 10 times more. and that's only half of it. Getting it out of your tank will be a never ending swirling torrent of misery.

bicolour - a wonderful, cheap and super beautiful IMO, but keep them in FOWLR, as they are known to be one of the more non-reefsafe centropyges.

Sorry if i sound biased against coral beauty had bad experience with it. killed over $100 worth of fishes and it took me 1 month to trap it.

[dnsfpl]

Fish Species:

Singapore

No. of Attempts:

Successful at first attempt

Adaptability/Behavior:

Took a week before coming out from rock work

Temperament:

Peaceful

Diet:

Initially pellets only, now everything

Reef Compatible:

Nip on zoa

Comments/Remarks:

Took some time to get it feeding

[dnsfpl]

Fish Species:

Eibli

No. of Attempts:

Successful at second attempt

Adaptability/Behavior:

Swimming freely after introduce

Temperament:

Slight aggression towards dwarf angel

Diet:

Everything

Reef Compatible:

Nip on zoa

Comments/Remarks:

The only dwarf angel that can withstand my coral beauty attack

[johntanjm]

Fish Species:

Key Hole

No. of Attempts:

Successful at first attempt

Adaptability/Behavior:

Mine fed readily.

Temperament:

Mind its own business

Diet:

pellets, mysis

Reef Compatible:

FOWLR tank, no comments

Comments/Remarks:

Beautiful fish. at first it looks just like a black fish with a white dash and then yellow on the rim of its fins. as it matures, the rim of its fins and tail show blue on top of the yellow and the fish's color moves on to be a very deep navy blue.

[Eniram]

Fish Species:

Flame

Flame back

Multicolour

Multibar

Coral Beauty

Eibli

Pacific

No. of Attempts:

Flame: 1st

Flame back: 1st

Multicolour: 1st (courtesy of Dleecool)

Multibar: 3rd

Coral Beauty: 1st

Eibli: 2nd (1st died due to ICH)

Pacific/Yellow tail: 1st (KYD, Killed by Yellow Dottyback, change sump and placed them in a small bucket, YDB just wacked the hell out of the chap, really stupid of me to placed them in a bucket. Missed that guy, one tough chap)

Adaptability/Behavior:

Flame: a few days,

Flame back: 1 mth, housed in cage to train to eat pellets, there after its swimming freely.

Multicolour: 1 day, now big boss.

Multibar: 1 mth, housed in cage to train to eat pellets, there after its swimming freely.

Coral Beauty: 1 wk,

Eibli: 2nd (1st died due to ICH), flame is his buddy they swim like paired couple.

Pacific?Yellow tail: 1st , ok with the rest except the flameback, pratically hunted it till had to use the flameback as a bait to trap the yellow tail pygmy.

Temperament:

Flame, chases coral beauty once in a while now.

Flame back, swimming freely

Multicolour, big boss

Multibar, swimming freely

Coral Beauty, harassed by Flame and Eibli angel till ich broke out, had to trap the 2 bullies and let the coral beauty to swim freely and recover

Eibli, chases coral beauty once in a while now.

PacificSlight aggressive towards smaller fish especially if its the 1st to be introuded.

Diet:

Everything

Reef Compatible:

Eibli, Nip on meaty corals eg brain and zoas

Comments/Remarks:

Beautiful angels

[Digiman]

Fish Species:

Multicolor

Joculator

No. of Attempts:

Multicolor: 2 attempts, first died of my own carelessness, second was doing very well and i recently jux sold the fish. Overall a very easy pgymy.

Joculator: 2 attempts, first big one died of internal infection (intestinal parasites, fish gets more and more emaciated despite feeding v well), second one is a small one which is doing v well now. Overall a very easy pgymy although some bigger ones may not ship very well.

Adaptability/Behavior:

On the whole both multicolor and joculator are pretty much like all angels, that is smaller ones adapt faster and better over bigger ones.

Temperament:

Multicolor - Agressive

Joculator - Peaceful

Diet:

Mysis, Flakes, pellets slightly.

Reef Compatible:

No comments because currently FOWLR. But both should be not reef-safe with a tendency to nip meaty-type-corals.

Comments/Remarks:

Both multicolor (averaging $120) and joculator (averaging $400) are on the rarer and more expensive end of the pgymy angels.

So if you do keep these two angels, it's better to get smaller specimens to start with and make sure they are the first few dwarf angels to go into the tank as you dun wan your hundreds of dollars fish to get wacked by a jux a few dollars coral beauty!

[Digiman]

Fish Species:

Venustus

Golden

No. of Attempts:

Multiple attempts (at least 3 to 4 times each) and all failed for both these dificult species. Smaller specimen lasted longer, at least a few months compared to bigger ones of only a few days.

Adaptability/Behavior:

Swimming freely after introduce

Very poor adaptability and highly sensitive

Temperament:

Easily bullied by almost any other angels and can be easily stressed by any boisterous tankmates

Diet:

Mysis very slightly. Slow to begin feeding and when it starts to feed it does not gaurantee long term success either as it may suddenly stop feeding or jux die mysteriousy one day. Very few success stories around.

Reef Compatible:

Not 100% reef safe, but it's a fish u'll be happy to see it picking at corals as it means at least it is starting to feed.

Comments/Remarks:

Middle range price, $55 for golden and $40 for venustus. Be prepared for loss, and many times. If you're patient enough or lucky will eventually get one tat fare well. Overall not a fish recommended for the inexperienced or those not willing to take risks.

[Digiman]

I would like to hear views on colini, deepwater coral beauty, hybrid lemonpeel and interruptus.

[Eniram]

was this close to get hold of a hybrid lemonpeel

[Thexder]

Fish Species:

Coral beauty

No. of Attempts:

Successful at first attempt

Adaptability/Behavior:

Took around 1 week to swim freely. Was eating right from the start

Temperament:

Peaceful

Diet:

Pellets, frozen food, Mysis

Reef Compatible:

100% reef safe

Comments/Remarks:

Bought from CF. Sold it to another reefer when moving house

Fish Species:

Flame

No. of Attempts:

Successful at first attempt

Adaptability/Behavior:

Took around 3-4 weeks to swim freely. Shy at first and ate frozen, mysis only. But now eats everything.

Temperament:

Generally peaceful. Chases my yellow tail damsel once in a while.

Diet:

Pellets, frozen food, Mysis

Reef Compatible:

100% reef safe

Comments/Remarks:

Wonderful addition to any marine tank. Bought from CF and still with me.