coral beauty and corals

[hunterdaddy]

Anyone have experience with these bothering corals?

 

[carrie1429]

Dwarf angels are known for nipping at corals but CBs will sometimes do fine with corals. IMO 50/50 chance, sometimes they will nip at them and sometimes they won't. I had a CB with some soft corals and he never bothered anything.

 

[nm reef]

I've had a coral beauty with numerous softies/polyps/shrooms/LPS types...never a problem. Beautiful fish in my opinion.

 

[sammystingray]

I would say it is the best angel, large or small, to put in a reef.....I presently have one...he eats micro algae...yay, and anything I feed the tank.....never a single problem. I personally think flame angels are way more prone to nip.

 

[kreach]

I had one in my tank before and never had any problems with him. Never had any problems with the flame I had either... let's hope my luck holds!

 

[clarkiiboi]

Agree, mine has been in the main tank for about 6 months, then I added polyps and leathers....it dont touch anything. What size tank do you have and what is currently in it? How long has it been set up? Dwarf angles need, IMO, a lot of swimming room, rocks to graze on, and a tank at least 6 months old.

 

[hunterdaddy]

tank is 2 years old (been torn down and reset twice but all water was transfered) 55-60 lbs LR 10 lbs base rock
55 gal tank.
CB is currently in my 20 gal tall QT tank and doing great

 

[flydan]

Hey,
I have had one in my reef for over a year. It hasn't bothered any of my corals and even though it's the largest fish I have, it doesn't bother the other fish either. It did, however, go after a Peppermint Shrimp I added to my tank. I think the shrimp was just too small and looked like food. (It doesn't bother my Cleaner Shrimp or Camel Back Shrimp.) I managed to get the Peppermint into my refugium and it's been in there ever since.
Dan'l

 

[jauringer]

mine has been pretty good also. he scopes out the Xenia and the GSP's pretty closly, but he has yet to chomp down on one of the polyps.