cherub angel, first hand experience, reef safe?

[astroboy]

I'm thinking about getting a cherub angel (again) had one 15 years ago, stunning fish, and it never picked at corals (LPS) at all. I'm wondering if anyone in the club has any first hand experience about it *really* being reef safe or not... I'm not sure I trust everything I read on the internet but I've always gotten good information from WAMAS members!

 

Just in passing, around that time my house lost power for four days during winter and aquarium temps got down to 49 degrees for 24 hours. I was able to move all the corals to a warm house when the tank started to cool but I couldn't snag the cherub. But it lived for at least six months afterwards with no ill effects that I could tell until a brittle star had half of it for lunch (unpleasant surprise). So, apparently at least some tropical marine fish will tolerate those temps for a short time, FWIW. 

 

Thanks to WAMAS I've since built a back up power system which has worked great. 

 

 

Thanks,

 

Mark

Edited March 13 by astroboy
clarification

[YHSublime]

Cherub Angelfish are reef safe with caution. Everybody will have different experiences. While I don't have any experience with a Cherub, I can tell you that I have kept a few types of "with caution" angels in my mixed reef tank. I didn't see a ton of SPS polyp extension, but they left my lps/softies/and giant clam alone. 

 

I've also taken home model citizen "with caution" reef safe fish who i witnessed first hand thriving with an abundance of coral around them in previous owners tank, but in my tank, I was not so lucky, and provided a very expensive 24 hour coral buffet. 

 

Just because somebody else had/has a good experience doesn't guarantee you will. Or maybe you will! But it's a dice roll, and you should decide what outcomes you'd be alright with. Or maybe you just don't roll the dice. 

[astroboy]

Thanks! I'm just wonder if someone could say "I've had 100 cherubs and never had any problems". I've had a few dwarf angels that are supposed to be 50-50 but they've all been good citizens. Anyway, if I do get a cherub I'll keep it in QT for a month with some expendables and see if they end up as lunch.