Opinions on angels in a reef
 

I have an Ebli and a Bi colour on hold to put in my reef tank, I was just curious as to what you folks think of them in a reef, I know some people say it is a recipe for disaster but no one seems to have first hand experience with the bad side of keeping them.
I've got a 90 gallon reef, Xenia, Anthelia, Montipora, Star Polyps and shrooms etc....

From what I have heard it is not a good idea to have two Angels in the same tank. Additionally the Bicolor is considered hard to keep alive. I myself have a Lemonpeel. He is arguably one of the nicest fish I have had. The only thing he ever touched was some zoanthids that came on a rock with Yellow Polyps. He ate those the first day I brought him home. They must have looked familiar, but that is all he has touched. :D

Thanks for the input, my understanding is that angels can be aggressive to one another if they look similar, being as these two are very different I'm hoping they will be okay. I am adding them both at the same time as well so one wont have had an oppourtunity to have established a territory.

I have an African Flameback (pygmy) & a Regal Angel, no problems at all, they get along great, and most of all, they don't bother the corals.

Good luck! I hade a flame angel for years with no problems... until he died. Then I tried a singapore queen angel, Koran Angel, and 2 more flame angels. Not all at the same time mind you, but I had to rip apart my 90 to get the little trouble makers out every time. Ill never try an angel again.

I take care of a few reefs with dwarf angels ( African flameback and Golden angels ) in them and have had no problems with them.

Years ago I had a bicolour in my own reef and it would not leave my clams alone.

The only angel I have in my own reef now is an Argi and he doesn't bother anything.

At work we put a lemon peel in a display reef and it killed a very large Derasa clam in about 2 days. Before we knew what was going on the clam was too far gone to save. It had been in the tank for a long time before the angel was introduced. Lemon peels are supposed to be one of the riskiest to try in a reef tank, but, like rcipema has just said his is a great fish. When you put an angel in your tank you never know what you are going to get.

I removed a potter's angel when it began taking exploratory nips of my clam. They are supposed to be one of the least likely to be a problem in a reef. Hindsight; I would have left it in a little longer to be sure because I haven't seen one as nice since. I have a coral beauty in my reef right now with no problems as yet although there are times when my frogspawn and hammer close just one branch and it makes me wonder a little. Marc, keeps a majestic in his reef and as long as it is well fed it leaves his corals and clams alone. The majestic is a lot more apt to chew on your corals than the centropyge spp. so like Dale says; your mileage may vary.[/i]

I put in an Ebli, so far so good, it is leaving my xenia and anthellia alone as well as my star polyps I found one more blue legged hermit crab and I found it doing exactly what they have all been doing, eating my Montipora digitalis, I had 20 of the little buggers and they all seem to have a taste for the Monti....

I try a lot of them flame beauty potter majaestic emperator all of them develop a taste for someting in the reef some even after 1 year witout any problem

No more angel in my reef :(

I was going to vote in this one and it has been bugging me for days.. there shoudl be a "Maby" :wink: I have a flame angel and it has been a perfect little fish. It has not touched anything, although I wish it would eat my psyo polyps :roll:, it did take a taste of my brain but nothing ever came of it and no harm was done.. I think it was just being like my tang and perswaiding it to release some algae for them to eat.

Steve