question about the coral beauty angelfish's conduct

[dbacksrat]

coral beauties are classified as "semi aggressive" fish--so are tiger barbs, who turned out to be little demons towards eachother and other community fish
does any one with a coral beauty seem to have any problems with them? i've also seen something about these angels nipping at corals--is this true?

 

[1979camaro]

it is true that some will nip at corals, its kind of a hit or miss with them in that respect...i have an eiblis angel which is a different dwarf angel and it hasnt been a problem

as far as aggression, i think that is generally only a problem with other angels

 

[dbacksrat]

thanks--i wont have any other angels for that specific reason--as for corals i hope mine will behave

 

[1979camaro]

yah, like i say, its a crapshoot...but most reports from MFT have been that they are fine as long as they get enough food

 

[dbacksrat]

oh yeah--i know full size angels are supposed to be kinda picky and hard to feed, so i was wondering if they are picky too--i was planning on feeding flake, dried seaweed, frozen mysis shrimp, and maybe frozen angel formula food (if all else fails)--this sounds pretty appetizing to me, hopefully it will to the angelfish

 

[1979camaro]

i think most of the dwarf angels and the full size angels eat readily...the problem fish are generally the butterflys. coral beauty should be pretty easy to feed

 

[S.Reef]

Most dwarf angels will eat anything. Mysis is a good start. As for Reef safe...I would give you a 50/50 chance. Right now I have a Flame in a reef with feather dusters, open brains, and Xenia.

 

[wayne]

Coral Beautys are pretty good. 80% i.m.h.o.

Don't get in a flap if it wont take food from the water column at first. My BiColor did nothing but pick at liverock for a month before it took any floating food. Expect similar

 

[1979camaro]

ditto to what wayne said...after a frew weeks he got tired of nibbling at little bits of whatever and he started eating pellet, flake, and frozen voraciously

 

[dbacksrat]

hmm--thats good information to know...my tank is almost done cycling and i will soon be able to begin stocking--i can hardly wait

 

[wayne]

Well don't buy this fish till you've been going for 4 or 6 months. Centropyge don't do well in new tanks. Make it the last fish you add.

 

[dbacksrat]

yeah i already have that figured out--i have definetly done my homework