Anyone have experience keeping a Flame Angel in a reef tank? I have read you can do it with caution as some can nip corals. Looking for some practical experience some of you may have had. I have a pair of clowns, a Firefish, and a Royal Gramma. I am looking for something pretty, that will be active and swim around a bunch, but not get too big. So recommend another fish if you have a favorite in mind. I told my wife we would do one more fish....but that is it! Thanks, James
i have heard of flames nipping but it is mainly at LPS. my first coral beauty did decide to nipp at my brain enough to kill it but i don't believe it was all his fault. they are much less likely to nipp than large angels but as long as you keep them fed i would think the flame would be fine.
I agree about keeping it fed. You can keep most things in a reef tank if you keep it fed well enough. When I went through a little bit of a lull in reef keeping career, I kind of slacked off on feeding as religiously as I had been, so our Ebil's Angel (a dwarf as you probably know) started to eat the tentacles off of our Bubble tip. All that because I decided to slack off on my up keep of our tanks. So in short, if you keep it fed, you should be fine.
All dwarfs are hit and mis. I have had a flame in a mixed reef without a problem. At the moment we have a coral beauty in a mixed reef, I may add a juvie emperator or a regal angel in the sps tank` the big angels have a decent trak record in sps tanks.
OK, I think I will go with plan B. If/when we add the final fish I think it will either be a Convict Tang or a Kole Yellow Eye Tang. Both stay relatively small and are peaceful reef inhabitants. And they are very pretty and active swimmers from what I have read. I just don't know what I would do if I saw a fish munching on one of my corals. It would be really hard to filet such a small fish as a Flame Angel.
Kole tangs are a great choice. I have read that they don't particularly care for lawnmower blennys due to food compition? I have never experienced that first hand, just read about it in the fourms. A Kole tang will be a definitlyy be one of the fish I choose.
