Goldflake Angel - Reef safe?

Breakthecycle2 · Feb 27, 2017

Reef safe for the most part or no? Thoughts?

wkscott · Feb 27, 2017

This depends on what you keep in your reef. Won't eat your shrimp, snails, or crabs but after a while mine started nipping at my clam and acans. This also varies fish by fish.

Lonely reefer's · Feb 27, 2017

I owned one in the pass it started to nipped corals
I would not recommend

eatbreakfast · Feb 28, 2017

It's 'safer' with sps. LPS, zoas, and clams are less safe.

Breakthecycle2 · Feb 28, 2017

Is there any other angels on the larger side that have a better shot of being reef safe? I have a mixed reef.

wkscott · Feb 28, 2017

Angels in the Genicanthus family are about as reef safe as you can get with the non-dwarf angels.

http://m.aquarium-fish.liveaquaria....:marinefish&isort=score&method=and&ts=results

eatbreakfast · Feb 28, 2017

^what he said.

james-vader · Feb 28, 2017

I owned one for about two weeks before i had to get rid of it. Nipped my SPS to death.

Highgrade · Mar 3, 2017

I've had luck with Regal Angels. Looking to replace my Juvi emperor Angel with a Bandit angel. The emperor is destroying several SPS colonies. Love him but it's time for him to go.Daily he's breaking off chunks so big I've made several SPS frags that continue to thrive. Since I have so many recovering frags I can't even give them away :eek:

DRoth335 · Mar 3, 2017

We have a goldflake (1.5 years), blueface (2.5 years), regal (2.5 years), flame (3.5 years) angel as well as a moorish idol (1.5 years) in an SPS dominant reef. No issues with SPS, euphylia or leathers but the few zoas we had in the tank disappeared in the first few months. I would not advise in a mixed reef (or you will end up with SPS dominant :-). We have another tank that is a mixed reef that has only reef safe fish in it but my wife loves the angels & MI so we designed this tank around the fish in terms of coral inhabitants.