Reef safe Angels

haha thanks. I've had one for about 2 years and he's been fine with my corals, however, recently he's gotten an appetite for zoa's and just the other day started nipping at my acan. Looks like i need to find a trade of some sorts.
 
Depends on whats in your tank coral wise... If you are strictly SPS, most of them are okay. A guy I trade with on RC is an Angel specialist, hes spoken at Macna etc a few times. His advice is if you have SPS to stick with the Chaetodontoplus family and you should be okay. He's kept most of the industry available Angels and hasn't had any cause problems. However, he warns that LPS and softies, zoanthids, palys etc are all fair game and will likely be eaten.

As always though... each fish will act at its own accord. When I was asking him about one for the 300, he suggested the Scribbled or Personifier out of the ones I had picked out as potentials.
 
ive tried a couple of the dwarfs and both had a taste for my zoanthids. they didnt mess with anything else though, lps or sps so if you are not a zoa love then one of them might be ok.
 
I have my Emperor in my 125G reef. Has done just fine for over 3 months now. He was in a tank covered with zoas and never touched them. I just feed heavy and give a lot of nori.
 
@ddier2020 wrote:
i plan to have a mixed reef said:
I would avoid the large angels then and focus on the pygmies... LPS, sponges etc are the larger angels natural food and even the pygmies like sponges.... they are less likely to cause problems than the larger ones.
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@hapka16 wrote:
haha thanks. I've had one for about 2 years and he's been fine with my corals said:
Thats usually the classical findings with Centropyge angel fish. As a rule all angels have the propensity to nip at your corals. My Potter's is reef safe, but that is always a risk. Eibli's can be reef safe but like most Cetropyge they will change at the drop of a hat for no apparent reason (starvation, new tank mate etc).
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I will say yes, angels are reef safe. The reef has to setup to accomodate the angel. Angels are my main interest in this hobby so I tailord my corals accordingly. I have a Chrysurus, Blueline, Goldflake, Regal, and a Multicolor angel in my 210. I keep leathers, mushrooms and a closed brain with them with problem.
 
Any of the Genicanthus species are almost 100% reef safe. I say almost simply because every fish is different, sometimes tangs will go rogue and eat corals. But for the most part Genicanthus angel are mid-water planktivores, and are similar to anthias in diet and habits, including sexual dimorphism (males and females look different from one another) and the ability to change sex. The most common are the Japanese Swallowtails, but as mentioned previously the watanabe and bellus angels are also part of this genus. Another great thing about these guys is that they form harems in the wild, and as long as you have a large enough tank you can keep more than one of them together (but only one male per tank).
 
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