The Angel Lovers Thread

[eatbreakfast]

Will Bellus angels pick at clams?

No, the entire Genicanthus genus is reef safe.

 

[tweeter]

Thanks! good to know...

 

[chema]

Will Bellus angels pick at clams?

The short answer is NO. I have had several Genicanthus angels and never touched my clams.

 

[sc50964]

But if the clam or other coral isn’t doing well health wise due to other reasons, then all bets are off on Reef safe angels.

 

[MrsBugmaster]

Doing a restart on my 180 gal fowler. Was thinking of having as many "pairs" as possible. Can large angels be paired? Was looking at 2 different kinds, Goldflake, Majestic, or Regal for large angels and a pair or two of dwarf angels. Or maybe a harem of Flame Angels. If going with harem of flame, will only 3 be advisable or would 5 work if getting 4 small and one large? Anyone with any advise or experience if this would be possible? Just thought since I'm doing a restart it might be kinda cool to do a "pairs" themed tank.

 

[sc50964]

The large angels you mentioned are doable in an 180g, but I would only do 1 dwarf. The large angels mentioned are from different breed the large angel species, thus there is less conflict. Can’t say that for the dwarf angles like there are more specifics

 

[MrsBugmaster]

Are they doable as pairs is my question and what is the best way to pair them. I was thinking of getting a juvenile and adult would that work?

 

[sc50964]

High risk of incompatibility since it’s not easy to tell their gender. If you want “pairs”, go with ones that you can tell visually. Like watanabei, bellus, swallowtail, personifer, scribble.

 

[sc50964]

2 pairs at the most. Like one pair of Reef safe angels and one pair of large ones like personifer or scribble.

 

[fabutahoun]

Fadi's Angels

Emperor Angelfish (Pomacanthus imperator)

Rusty Angelfish (Centropyge ferrugata)

Coral Beauty Angelfish (Centropyge bispinosa) from Cebu - The Philippines

Lamarck's Angelfish (Genicanthus lamarck)

And The cutest angel of all time Watanabei Angelfish (Genicanthus watanabei)

 

[Maritimer]

Beautiful angels!

How do you find their behavior on the reef - do they pick, nip, devour corals?

~Bruce

 

[fabutahoun]

Beautiful angels!

How do you find their behavior on the reef - do they pick, nip, devour corals?

~Bruce

Thanks Bruce,

The Tank is heavily loaded with sps, 4 gonioporas , a couple of balsto few zoa, few mushrooms and 1 clam. The 2 Genicanthus are 100% reef safe , the Centropyges are picking constantly on rocks, only emperor eats zoa and acans (so no acans in the tank) . I don't have any issue with zoa colonies, the problem is i can't add any small zoa frag, as it will be eaten instantly. I am a bit surprised that nothing is touching my clam.

 

[dh350twin]

Newly acquired Black Phantom Angel. Any experts out there to confirm that is what this is.
I have pics I personally took of black velvets and yellow tail pomas and there not like this. They are similar.

 

[dh350twin]

Black Velvet Angelfish (Chaetodontoplus melanosoma) I just got a couple days ago.

Where did you get him?

 

[dh350twin]

Black Velvet.

 

[dh350twin]

Yellow tail Poma

 

[falconut]

Where did you get him?

I picked him up locally (TSM Corals), unfortunately he didn't make it. Never really ate aggressively & just stopped all together.

 

[dh350twin]

I picked him up locally (TSM Corals), unfortunately he didn't make it. Never really ate aggressively & just stopped all together.

I know TSM and I hate to tell you but that was a black Phantom not a black velvet. I’m sorry to hear he didn’t make it

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Fadi's Angels

Emperor Angelfish (Pomacanthus imperator)

Rusty Angelfish (Centropyge ferrugata)

Coral Beauty Angelfish (Centropyge bispinosa) from Cebu - The Philippines

Lamarck's Angelfish (Genicanthus lamarck)

And The cutest angel of all time Watanabei Angelfish (Genicanthus watanabei)

Stunning pics!!

 

[fabutahoun]

Stunning pics!!

Thanks Man