Adding A Coral Beauty

[Tyrfing]

I'll try this again, since for some reason, my post of an hour ago was removed....

My tank has been up for about 4 months and just finished it's cycle about 3 weeks ago. The coral is growing well, the pod population seems to be well established and now everything seems pretty good. I just added two firefish and will add more livestock next week.

My LFS has a gorgeous Coral Beauty for $20 and I was wondering if it would be safe to add. For some reason I recall reading either in a book or on this board that a coral beauty shouldn't be added to tank until it has been established for at least a year.

Any feedback?

p.s. I have no idea why my previous topic was deleted, it contained the same info as this post.

[jakob4001]

we've had ours for almost a year now; it never really disturbed anything in the the tank & has been one of the plumpest,happiest inhabitants...they have been known to aquire a taste for certain kinds of coral sometimes though...probably wanted to make sure that tank had ran diseas free for at least that periood of time being as dwarf angels tend to be very suseptible to various diseases in captive environment;$20 is a good buy though

Dwarf angels do best when added to well established tanks. A year might be stretching it, and 5-6 months seems to be more the norm. You mentioned that you have corals, so in a reef setting, angels are a gamble. Coral Beauties are supposedly one of the more "reef safe" species, however they can munch on corals so you need to factor this in to your decision. $20.oo is a good price for a healthy specimen and they are great fish. I have one in one of my tanks. I'd say your tank is mature enough, but just keep in mind that there are no guarantees with regards to what he'll go after in the tank. What size tank by the way?

[Tyrfing]

As far as corals go, I have a colt coral, two well established feather dusters, about 6 tiny feather dusters, a whole rock of button polyps and a leather coral that looks like Billy Idol's haircut around 1989.