I have had a flame angel in my tank for over a year. I have never seen it directly nip at my coral but he will steal food from my bubble whenever I feed it during the day. It sure looks like it's nipping the coral but actually just grabbing the food before the bubble can. I've tried to move all my coral feedings to night just so the flame doesn't associate corals with food. I've never seen it give any thought about picking at any of my other lps or softies.
The flame angel is one of the more aggressive fish in my tank though. I have it in with two clarkii clowns, hippo tang, yellow tang, psych mandarin and a flame wrasse. Occasionally the flame angel will drive the clarkiis back to their side of the tank or want to break them up when they start doing their mating dance. The flame angel will also chase the wrasse into hiding every once and a while. There has never been a full on chase around the tank and I have never seen any nipping or pinning into corners. Anytime the flame angel starts bugging another fish my hippo/yellow tang wil usually steps in and play peacemaker and shephards the flame away.
I think a lot of it comes down to personality of the fish when it comes to nipping coral. From what I have read on angels some will pick at coral and some won't. Sometimes they will develop a taste for corals as they get older. Even with the risk of it tearing through coral, I like my flame angel and would recommend one. It has a nice color mix and is constantly cruisin around the tank during the day. I try to keep mine well fed and under watch, if it ever does deciede to go for coral i'm prepared to pull out some rock (hard to catch) and move him to the sump/sell him.
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