Angels and Butterflies in The Reef Tank

[Bluecbs]

The butterfly's eating everything I throw in the water, and (for a butterfly!) is pretty thick. Frozen, flakes, pellets ... all of it. Absolutely no worries about this guy!

~Bruce

You,re a lucky man

 

[fabutahoun]

Updated My Angel List

Coral Beauty Angelfish(Centropyge bispinosa) From The Philippines

Another Coral Beauty Angelfish(Centropyge bispinosa) From The Indo

Rusty Angelfish(Centropyge ferrugata)

Lamarck's Angelfish(Genicanthus lamarck)

Watanabei Angelfish(Genicanthus watanabei)

Swallowtail Angelfish (Genicanthus melanospilos)

Masked Swallowtail Angelfish(Genicanthus semifasciatus). Little skinny but started finally to put on some weight

Emperor Angelfish(Pomacanthus imperator)

 

[Sallstrom]

Chaetodon rafflesii
Not really reef save. Picks mostly at Galaxea and Stylopora species. And mushrooms. Hasn't eaten any Acropora yet

 

[fabutahoun]

Nice fish, and corals look very healthy

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

Love this thread each time it pops up I read it all.

Working on my upgrade to be able to join the fun!

 

[Bluecbs]

My collection of bfs...

.. and obviously its a fowlr, it has to be..

 

[Subnautica]

For butterflies, I had small experience with these in addition to Semilarvatus mentioned above

Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish (Forcipiger flavissimus)
Copperband Butterflyfish (Chelmon rostratus)

These two were Reef safe fish and extra advantage they were eating aiptasia

On the other hand the following raccoons were not safe at all and eats everything

Raccoon Butterflyfish (Chaetodon lunula)
Red Sea Raccoon Butterflyfish (Chaetodon fasciatus) which you can fish it yourself in Saudi Arabia easily

I like your thread. May I ask if the Double Saddle and Sunset Butterfly will eat corals?

Here's my Doublesaddle butterfly in a Fowlr. The Sunset is on my wishlist

 

[fabutahoun]

I like your thread. May I ask if the Double Saddle and Sunset Butterfly will eat corals?

Here's my Doublesaddle butterfly in a Fowlr. The Sunset is on my wishlist

As the majority of Chaetodon butterflies , Double Saddle and Sunset Butterflies are not reef safe.

 

[Katrina71]

Is it true that dwarf angels are more prone to develop a taste for coral?

 

[fabutahoun]

Is it true that dwarf angels are more prone to develop a taste for coral?

Yes I believe so, some of the dwarf angels I have like Rusty and Venusta Angels pick on many corals including sps. on the other Hand my Emperor don't touch sps and much gentler on LPS.

 

[Katrina71]

Yes I believe so, some of the dwarf angels I have like Rusty and Venusta Angels pick on many corals including sps. on the other Hand my Emperor don't touch sps and much gentler on LPS.

I'm looking for that ONE stunning fish for the 60. Mixed reef of course.

 

[fabutahoun]

I'm looking for that ONE stunning fish for the 60. Mixed reef of course.

Coral Beauty !!! or flame angel . you can consider them as red heads also

 

[Devaji]

sooo as time has passed I am once again thinking about a BF dominate tank. with a few dwarf angels

tank would be a red sea reefer 750XXL 200 gal system.
I would like to add lots of gorgonians. getting mixed info on if this is possible or not.
I doubt it, as i want to do it, go figure. any one out there is reef land keep BF and gorgs together or is that asking for trouble?

 

[fabutahoun]

sooo as time has passed I am once again thinking about a BF dominate tank. with a few dwarf angels

tank would be a red sea reefer 750XXL 200 gal system.
I would like to add lots of gorgonians. getting mixed info on if this is possible or not.
I doubt it, as i want to do it, go figure. any one out there is reef land keep BF and gorgs together or is that asking for trouble?

My emperor angel devoured a gorgonians a while ago, didn't notice that on dwarf angels.

 

[Devaji]

My emperor angel devoured a gorgonians a while ago, didn't notice that on dwarf angels.

that is unfortunate. I love gorgs. may tank is a had small for an emp. booo one of my fav, fish.

kinda debating what do you with my tank after the move and may get another...

 

[Bluecbs]

Bfs and corals just don't go well together, except for long noses(forcipiger) and Copperbands and(chelmon), but still not 100%
You can also go for the deepsea bfs(prognatodes), but I be read somewhere they don't like intense lighting and deeper pocket required