- Location
- Long island
Any experiences with queens or blue faces?
Reef safe angelfish
- Thread starter Nandez13
- Start date
- Location
- Garden city
If I wanted to make sure I'd have 0 issues I'd go with Wantanabei pair the males r expensive but if u get one eating they r the most beautiful fish my favorite I've ever owned
- Location
- merrick, ny
- Location
- poughquag, ny
Genicanthus angels are generally the safest angel to have in a reef tank. but these fish can easily reach 6" plus. generally not good to have different species unless a large tank, with several hiding spaces and cove's. google copps
- Location
- north jersey
imo, flame>coral beauty>lemon peel&bicolor. pair of the same species may have less bickering than two of the different ones.
in my old 75 gal, i had a flame, a coral beauty, and a keyhole living peacefully for a year or so. some chasing every now and then but there were enough caves and nooks and crannies for them to be somewhat separated. they never touched any corals. one day the keyhole jumped and was replaced with a lemonpeel hybrid......that was a costly mistake. lost a lot of zoa's, brains, and torches. not only just the lemonpeel, the flame and coral beauty all of a sudden joined in. they "learned" the taste for corals from the lemonpeel!!!
finding them new home sounds easier than it actually is.......you may have to take out all the rocks to catch them. that was what i had to do.
genicanthus angels (bellus, watanabei, japanese swallow tail) are a better bet for being reef safe but they do get big....>6-8".
i also had a small cherub that seem to be harmless to corals.
So I got a flame angel and a coral beauty angel. I've had them for a little over a day. They haven't touched a single coral. Great, right? No, they're too busy fighting to care about my corals. It looked like an even match at first but my flame angel is definitely the tougher one. He's such a d**k. The coral beauty has taken refuge in a space between my overflow and a powerhead but my flame is not content with the remaining 4 ft of space in the tank. My foxface keeps turning brown and throwing it's spines up. Good thing I have a lid on my tank or I may have lost my bartlett anthias or helfrichi firefish which tried to jump when they got too close to the action. I'm hoping it stops soon. I don't know whether to try to remove the flame and put him in my sump for a couple days to let the coral beauty establish some territory? They're both about 2.5" in size. Any recommendations? Just let them sort it out?
- Location
- north jersey
you should be good. bellus belongs to the genus, genicanthus......perhaps one of the "lowest" risk angels to the corals.....i would still watch them around fleshy tissue brain corals though.
- Location
- East Meadow
Have a flame and never had a problem he like to hide next to my frogspawn
how big is your majestic? I wanted to take a chance on one in my system. I have a 240 gallon plumbed into a 125 gallon sump and a 75 gallon fuge. Mostly have lps which consist of torches and frogspawns and hammers. some zoas. a clam. gsp,kenya trees.
- Location
- Garden city
Hi Chris do the angels pick at sps causing ur polyps to retract
My Angels haven't been picking on my SPS as far as I can tell. My polyps are always out. I try to keep them well fed. If they ever did start to nip on the polyps, I would have no problem sacrificing polyp extension to keep the Angels.
- Location
- Garden city
ThAnks I just have a few frags ATM but no PE was trying to figure out if one my angels is picking or my matted file fish
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