Flame Angels...Bi-Color Angels

clownchick22 · #1 05-09-2005, 05:42 PM

Are Flame angels OR Bi-color angels reef-safe?
I've read alot of conflicting info.. just need some clarification from experienced people

Aquattro · #2 05-09-2005, 05:45 PM

moved to reef forum

DEAD_BY_DAWN · #3 05-09-2005, 05:48 PM

Depends on the angel with all angels other than the swallow tails there is some risk but i have a quite a few customers who keep both with no problems,but then again most of them have sps tanks.

muck · #4 05-09-2005, 05:49 PM

No angel is guaranteed to be reef-safe.
Some will pick at your corals while others of the same species will not.
Its really a "Try at your own Risk".

That being said I have a dwarf angel that doesn't touch anything. (So far...)
I also know of quite a few others keeping dwarfs without any problems as well.

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #5 05-09-2005, 06:14 PM

My cherub angel was completely reef-safe. The "experts" state that only the dwarf-dwarfs, like Flame-backs & Cherubs, are completely reef-safe & all the rest are semi-reef-safe.

Anthony

clownchick22 · #6 05-09-2005, 06:20 PM

Would you all reccomend a Flame or bi-Color?

Beverly · #7 05-09-2005, 09:00 PM

The flameback angel we had in our 120g went after snails

I would not consider them reef safe.

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #8 05-09-2005, 09:52 PM

Of my friends who have flame angels, almost all are reef-safe. Sorry, I don't remember anybody with a bi-colour.

Anthony

marie · #9 05-09-2005, 10:04 PM

Every thing i have read suggests that bicolour angels are ones least likely to be reef safe. I have a flame angel who picks at small polyps but she has never killed any coral. The corals just put there polyps out at night

johnny rock · #10 05-13-2005, 05:26 PM

its all a crap shoot. I had the nicest flame for 3 months,decided it liked SPS after.