What corals with a dwarf angel?

[Clowning_Around72]

I have an eibli angel.
What corals will it likely leave alone?

Another concern is that the tank has no coral currently and any new coral will be a temptation.

Softies?

Sps?

I figure lps are a bad choice.

 

[Subsea]

None. I suggest you get enough diver collected live rock to keep him busy grazing. Also, get some fast growing softies that grows faster than he grazes..

 

[atoll]

I have 4 African Fireballs they touch nothing and I have various sps lps and softies.

 

[Clowning_Around72]

None. I suggest you get enough diver collected live rock to keep him busy grazing. Also, get some fast growing softies that grows faster than he grazes..

This is what I was figuring. Xenia, especially, etc

 

[Clowning_Around72]

This is what I was figuring. Xenia, especially, etc

Guess it isn't likely it leaves hard coral alone

 

[atoll]

Proper pigmy angels like C.argi C. acanthrops. I had a number of each over the years, they never touched any corals.

 

[Seansea]

Everything can be nipped. I have had a bicolor in my reef for 3 years. He nips at all zoas and most sps. Doesnt necessarilly maul them like a large angel of butterfly but you will get no polyp extension and your zoas will grow slower. Never touches most lps tho

 

[atoll]

Just stay away from the dwarfs and look at the piggy angels instead.

 

[Seansea]

This is him in my old red sea 350

Now hes in my mariner 180. My blue spot toby puffer is way worse. When he takes a chunk of sps a whole branch comes off.

 

[Clowning_Around72]

Just stay away from the dwarfs and look at the piggy angels instead.

Issue is, I already have the eibli angel... plus I like the fish a lot

 

[Clowning_Around72]

Everything can be nipped. I have had a bicolor in my reef for 3 years. He nips at all zoas and most sps. Doesnt necessarilly maul them like a large angel of butterfly but you will get no polyp extension and your zoas will grow slower. Never touches most lps tho

Interesting, I thought lps was a common target

 

[atoll]

Try 4. They don't touch any corals at all.

 

[Clowning_Around72]

Which soft corals would be worth a try aside from xenia/gsp types?

I have never heard of them picking at anemones... is that an option?

Flower nems?

 

[Sam7]

This why folks should always do there research before buying the fish not after.

 

[tripdad]

They are like most fish, individuals. No two are alike. Eibli's are one of the least aggressive pygmy's. Keep it well fed and give it mature live rock and see what happens. It may be fine. I have a flame pair and a coral beauty in my reef. So far it's been ok. A nip here and there but I have acros and polyp extension. I do not have any zoas so cant speak to them.

 

[Seansea]

I have flower anenomes. Never touch em. Mushrooms too. Never touch them either

 

[vijay_06]

Each fish is different and you can never be sure until you add it to your tank.

 

[fishnchips17]

Yeah each fish is different. I have a 50 gal full of zoas and lps corals but my flame angel has never touched anything. I also had copperband butterfly that didn't touch any corals either. Maybe I just kept my fish really well fed. Just try with cheap zoas and lps and see how your angel reacts.

 

[atoll]

A fish may leave corals alone for years then all of a sudden start nipping at corals.

 

[56longroof]

I have a flame,golden,and venustus in my tank. None of them bother any corals.