Hiya, Hey anyone have any experience with these guys in a reef tank? Kevin has one in and I'd like to try it, but wanted some advice. Kim/Benton, AR
Kim no experience but there is a group gathering info on angels in reef tanks. I'll try to post the data but to summarize 13 of 13 Rusty owners reported no problems with them in their reef tanks. Species # Safe # Not Safe Total % Safety Notes on Safe Fish Notes on Not Safe Fish Asfur 7 2 9 77.77777778 1 ate only poccilopora 1 safe with softies, 1 eats LPS Bellus 18 2 20 90 2 only live with SPS/LPS 2 eat zoas/palys Bicolor 14 3 17 82.35294118 1 nips unhealthy corals and xenia; 4 occasional nipper but no damage; 1 eats clams; one nips SPS but they still grow; 2 only live with softies 2 eat LPS Blue Ring 1 1 0 Blueface 12 3 15 80 2 will eat zoas/anemone; 1 eats clams; 1 eats elegance; 1 only lives with SPS, 1 nips everything but no damage; 1 eats button polyps 1 was safe until adult Bluefin 1 1 0 1 nips leather corals Cherub 32 5 37 86.48648649 1 nipped acans at first but adjusted 1 nips zoas and gorgonians, 2 nip LPS, 1 eats zoas, 1 eats SPS and gorgonians Conspiculatus 2 2 100 1 only lives with SPS, 1 picks LPS with no damage Coral Beauty 74 10 84 88.0952381 1 nips at clams; 5 don't live with SPS; 3 occasionally nip but no damage; 1 eats xenia 5 nip SPS, 2 nip LPS; 1 eats soft/polyps Cream 2 1 3 66.66666667 1 eats elegance, 1 eats corals on sandbed 1 eats zoas Earspot 1 1 100 Eibli 6 9 15 40 1 nipped SPS with no damage 2 nip SPS corals; 2 nip LPS, 1 nips zoas, 1 eats softies and euphyllia Emperor 21 7 28 75 1 only lives with soft/polyps; 2 eats zoas; 1 doesn't live with LPS/zoas; 1 only lives with SPS, 1 nips clams, 1 nips everythig but no damage, 1 eats acans 2 eat LPS, 1 eats softies Fisher's 2 1 3 66.66666667 1 eats LPS Flagfin 2 1 3 66.66666667 1 only lives with SPS; 1 doesn't live with LPS/zoas Flame 99 27 126 78.57142857 11 occasional nipper but no damage; 1 nips unhealthy corals; 1 nips elegance; 3 nip acans; 1 nipped clams but stopped, 4 don’t live with SPS; 3 nip LPS; 2 eats xenia; 1 nips LTA; 1 nips SPS 1 was safe 5 mo., then changed; 1 safe 4 years, then ate a brain; 2 eat LPS; 2 eat clams and LPS; 11 eat SPS; 1 safe for a year then eats LPS/clams; one safe for a year then eats SPS Flameback 13 1 14 92.85714286 1 nipped star polyps when first introduced; 2 only live with SPS, 1 nips clams, 1 nips finger leather 1 was fine for 6 months then not safe French 2 1 3 66.66666667 1 doesn't live with LPS/zoas 1 nips kenya tree and button polyps Golden Pygmy 3 3 6 50 1 nips LPS with no damage 1 safe with SPS but no others, 1 nips clams, 1 eats frogspawn Goldflake 6 4 10 60 2 only live with SPS, 1 nips with no damage 3 eats zoas, 2 nip SPS Griffis 1 1 nips clams Halfblack 3 1 4 75 1 only lives with polyps/mushrooms 1 nips SPS Heraldi 5 1 6 83.33333333 Sometimes picks, no damage 1 eats brains Joculator 3 3 100 1 occasional nipper but no damage, 1 only lives with SPS/LPS Keyhole 1 1 100 Koran 6 5 11 54.54545455 1 only kept with polyps; 1 not kept with SPS, 1 nips candycanes 2 eat brains, 1 eats SPS Lamarck 6 2 8 75 1 eats gsp 2 eat LPS Lemonpeel 4 8 12 33.33333333 3 eat SPS, 1 eats LPS Majestic 20 6 26 76.92307692 3 only live with SPS; 1 suspected in clam death; 1 only lives with soft/polyps; 1 only lives with SPS and polyps; 1 doesn't live with LPS/zoas, 1 nips cup coral, 1 will nip if underfed, 3 nip acans 1 safe with SPS but no others; 1 eats zoas, 1 nips LPS and clams Melanospilos 8 8 100 Meredethi 1 1 100 1 only lives with soft/polyps Multicolor 8 1 9 88.88888889 1 eats acans; 1 doesn’t live with SPS 1 safe with SPS but no others Multifasciatia 4 3 7 57.14285714 1 only lives with LPS/softies, 3 nip with no damage 1 eats softies, 1 eats lps and softies, 1 eats zoas Nox 4 1 5 80 1 eats some zoas, nips LPS Passer 2 2 100 1 only lives with polyps/mushrooms Personifer 1 1 100 1 only lives with SPS Poma 1 1 100 Potter's 29 5 34 85.29411765 1 never exposed to SPS; 3 nip clams; 2 occasional nipper but no damage 3 nip LPS, 1 nips clams, 1 eats softies Queen 6 3 9 66.66666667 1 only lives with SPS; 1 doesn't live with LPS/zoas; 1 eats some polyps 1 was fine until ~8" Regal 17 7 24 70.83333333 4 only live with SPS; 1 nipped at first, 1 nips clams, 2 nip LPS 3 safe with SPS but no others;2 eat zoas and xenia, 2 eat zoas and LPS Rock Beauty 1 1 100 Rusty 13 13 100 1 nips anthelia Scribbled 3 4 7 42.85714286 1 only lives with SPS 2 nip clams, zoas Singapore 6 1 7 85.71428571 1 doesn't live with LPS/zoas 1 nips soft corals, one fine for 3 years then began eating corals Swallowtail 8 1 9 88.88888889 Venustus 3 3 100 1 nips clams Vroliki 1 1 100 Watanabei 9 9 100 Woodheadi 1 1 100 1 only lives with softies
They look cool, but I usually use liveaquaria as a rough guide and they state that it's not a good reef dweller and requires hiding places. I'm going to have to look up that forum David has referenced, looks very interesting. I'd love to have a lemonpeel.
Me too John but 8 out of 12 in that survey were coral eaters (softies mainly). I don't know if it's ok to post a link, if not let me know or just have the mods delete it. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1661153&highlight=the+angel+thread+to+end
I think it's fine as far as I know. You're spreading information not recruiting for another site. Most of us are members of other national/international reefing forums in addition to our local one.
Doesn't the age of the angelfish play a role too? I've read a lot of stuff online that says many of the reef "safer" angelfish show no aggression towards corals, but start nipping the older they get. I think that it depends on the individual fish maybe. But there is always that chance. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The only think I've heard about a fisher (rusty) angel is that they sometimes require some work to get to start eating and that they will fight other dwarf angels. That was just on a app I've got. Sent from uh......
