Large Angel in an SPS tank
 

I am sure many have fantasied about the co-existence of these two, but does anyone currently have one in their SPS tank. What kind of Angle? How is it doing? Is it eating/nipping on corals? Would you recommend it or not.

No Angles here. But I do have an Angel. Its a Flame Angel. It doesn't touch my SPS unless it was already dying. Then it'll nip the dead tissue.

haha. I thought you were asking about a bow front... :razz:

I thought he was talking about a angler :razz: :lol:

like in the nemo movie :mrgreen:

Angel
 

I have a Regal Angel in my sps tank. Now I don't have a lot of sps corals and it hasn't been up and running for that long but the angel's been in there for about a month now and the only thing he eats are my snails and the fish food I feed him.

I have a coral beauty and a flame angel with no problems.

Re: Angel
 

Can you post a picture of it Jaws?

angel
 

Awesome. Thanks Jaws. :cool:

angel
 

No problem. I was a little concerned for a while because he had a good cut on his side for a while and he wasn't eating as much for a couple days but it's almost healed now and he is eating great again. Definitely a great addition to a tank if the fish has the right intentions. By that I mean "doesn't want to eat your pocket book up in corals".

angels
 

Does anyone own Anglefish from the Pomacanthus family. Juvenile or adult?

I've got an Emperor angel, adult. Loves eating the LPS (so they're separated) but I haven't seen him bother the SPS.

Mitch

How long have you had the fish. Was it a juvie when you got him?

Had him for about a year and a half, and he was a juvenile when we got him.

Mitch

What all did he eat, Mitch? I mean corals-wise.

As a juvenile, he didn't bother any corals. As he grew, he developed a taste for the LPS - open brain, caulestrea, sometimes the closed brain. (so he's now sitting in my sump)
Beautiful fish, though! :smile:

Mitch

No SPS, but I have a 4-5 inch Queen & juv. Koran in with my LPS & soft corals. Never touch 'em, although they & the tangs are hard on my caulerpa fields :biggrin: They also leave my red halimenia (macro-algae) alone.

angel
 

Do you have clams in your tank?

What's your plan for the Emperor? Any plans on getting rid of it? :biggrin:

If you go through the Tanks of the Month on reefcentral.com you will see a few people who have had large tanks with large angels and a variety of corals - esp. sps - no mention of angels eating up the corals - I don't remember exact details, but these were BIG tanks.