michaelg April 10, 2003 April 10, 2003 I have seen them in plenty of sps dominated tanks, but there is always the possibility that you will get the bad one. Beautiful fish though. I have kept 3 angels (coral beauty, eibli, and lemonpeel) over the years and never had a problem, but have heard otherwise. small feather dusters and sponges may suffer, and clams with definate caution.
Gatortailale April 10, 2003 April 10, 2003 Like the boss (Michael) said, 95% of the time they are reef safe. It's always possible to get one that will pick at it. I have a Flame and a Coral Beauty in my 125g which is about 93% sps and have no problems. Just feed them a lot of frozen food and add nori sheets 5-7 days a week to give them something to graze on during the day. my $.0000000002 Craig
pez April 10, 2003 April 10, 2003 I had one that was fond of nipping at some of my soft corals (of all things), but left the SPS corals alone. Perhaps I just didn't have the "right" kinds of SPS corals. Like Michael and Craig said, it's basically a crap shoot whether your's will nip or not. I read they tend to nip as they grow, so the older it gets, the more likely it will nip. -T
dgasmd April 10, 2003 April 10, 2003 David: I had one in my tank and did not pick on anything. At least that was for the 2 days it was there until it died and killed every other fish in the tank. It spread marine velvet, or how I like to call it marine ebola, to the other fish. Have heard of plenty of people keeping them without problems, expecially in SPS tanks. My $2000 yen
chideloh April 10, 2003 Author April 10, 2003 Well, this little guy is picking at my sps polyps. I have seen pictures of other people's tank with these guys in it and I finally gave into it after resisting it for a long time and now this little guy is picking at my corals. I just got it yesterday and as soon as I put it in he went to the corals. Can't win. Like the others been saying, can't tell from one fish to the other, I guess. I am hoping this is just a fad for this critter, but if what Tom says holds true then I am out of luck. Thanks guys. David
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