Any corals successfully kept with non-reef safe fish?

[M.E.Milz]

I have been experimenting by adding frags and coral colonies from my reef tank into my FOWLR tank that is home to a spiny box and a picasso trigger (among other large fish). So far, I have been able to keep yellow button polpys, green/brown polyps, and star polyp colonies. Next, I plan to try some leather corals.

Although my FOWLR tank will never look like my reef tank, I would like to at least increase the diversity of the organisms in the tank and make it look more natural.

Any commnets or suggestions?

Mike

 

[Anonymous]

I've noticed that I can keep a wide variety of corals with puffers. The only real problem I've ever seen is that I can't add snails. My porcupine even left clams and sps corals alone. I was forced into putting the corals into the same tank as the porky when a tank cracked. I was pleasantly surprised that he never touched any of them. A dogface puffer in the same tank did nothing to the corals either. I ended up giving the clam away to a member here, just in case the puffers decided it was food at one point. I had that clam for over 3 years, and while it hurt to see it go, it would have REALLY hurt to see it die.

BTW, I wonder how that clam is doing. I think I might email the guy I gave it to.

 

[Anonymous]

I think that is a neat idea. If someone can generate enough frags, why not have a fish that eats them. Heck, I have seriosly considered buying a sponge just for my emperor angel. They don't cost a lot and it would be neat to see if he consumes it or farms it like many damsels do on the reef.

 

[texman]

I decided to go out on a limb and add a blueface angel, a majestic angel, a venustus angel and a Watanabei angel to my 600g reef. So far, the clams and SPS corals are fine, as well as the hammer coral and frogspawn. The angels have eaten my clavularia and killed 4 out of 5 of the open brain corals (cynarinia and scolymias) I can't really get the angels out of the tank now, so I am trying not to feel too bad about my coral deaths, however, in hindsight, I should not have put those angels in.

 

[CTaylor]

tex,

if they are eating only one kind of coral, then if you want to keep that coral and the fish, then maybe consider caging up the coral (egg crate). I did this for my xmas worm 'rock to save it from a pesty african flameback. Would be really cool if I could find clear egg crate!

hmmm.. is there such a thing?