Should I add Potter Angelfish to my system?

[kevin]

Hi, everyone. I would like to ask for advice. I have a 90g reef tank with SPS, LPS and chalices plus 1 blue powder tang, 1 leopard wrassle, 1 giant clam, a damsel, 2 nemo, 1 Flame Angelfish and 3 BTA. I saw the Potter Angelfish from a fish store and it is very nice and I would like to ask if I can introduce it to my system above? Would the Flame angelfish and the Potter Angelfish chasing each other? So far, my flame angelfish really behave and not touching any SPS, LPS nor my clam.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks

Kevin

[zygote2k]

why risk a fight or coral nipping with another angel? Be happy that you have a Flame that behaves.

Got a full tank shot?

[Gatortailale]

Good question - see here for some answers by Copps

 

small section from article

Without a doubt the most commonly asked questions I receive in regards to angelfish pertain to keeping them in reef tanks. In addition to my passion for angelfish as a child, I had one for reef aquariums, and early on the two collided after I was continually told you simply could not keep angels in reefs. Since then, Ive had years and years of firsthand experience after my original experimentation mixing my two passions. For the 2009 MACNA (Marine Aquarium Conference of North America) I put together a lecture titled Angelfish in Reef Aquaria to address the topic. Along with the topic of keeping angelfish in pairs and harems and so much else in this hobby, there is a tremendous amount of outdated information and misinformation. While it is tough to address this in a few sentences, one of the best things one can do to keep angelfish successfully in reef tanks is keep their corals healthy. Angels are much more apt to pick on stressed, dying or otherwise unhealthy corals. In addition to this, it is not a 50/50 shot with all angelfish species, or the gamble that many of us often read about. The truth is that tendencies follow the genus and species much more than they follow the individual. Even within the dwarf angelfish genus Centropyge, the variance from species to species in terms of their reefsafeness is rather striking. And, when it comes to mixing angelfish, and many reef fish in general, I always say it is not WHAT you mix, but HOW you mix.

[hlem]

I have a pair of potter in my tank, along with 2 pygmy, i'm going to add a flame/midnight/multicolor in later

[kevin]

Thanks for all your help. I am going to introduce the Potter Angelfish in and observe it and see how that work.

 

I have a pair of potter in my tank, along with 2 pygmy, i'm going to add a flame/midnight/multicolor in later

[hlem]

Thanks for all your help. I am going to introduce the Potter Angelfish in and observe it and see how that work.

 

 

 

hope you can get it out if it doenst work...

[Coral Hind]

why risk a fight or coral nipping with another angel? Be happy that you have a Flame that behaves.

 

Sound advice to me!

[kevin]

well, I went to the local fish store after work today and asked the guy there, he said it should be ok with 90g. So I decided to purchase that pretty potter angelfish. However, the angel looked not too good after he transfer to the bag... floating with his belly up :( I kept waiting and waiting for awhile, then the guy at the front door said that not to buy the fish b/c it was stressed too much. The angel was then transferred back to the tank and I wait to see if any improvement at all... well, unfortunately the angel passed away :( .. and I end up getting a Koran angelfish. So far, the Koran angelfish get along with all tank mates and ate my sea weed as well as flake food, and not snipping at any corals nor my clam yet. I will keep an eye on it.

 

Sound advice to me!

[trockafella]

Ummm, not really a good choice for a reef tank.. Or a 90 gal.

 

From Liveaquaria....

 

overviewThe Koran Angelfish, also referred to as the Semicircular Angelfish or Halfcircled Angelfish, is an extremely popular and hardy angelfish. As an adult, the body color is a yellow-green that bleeds from light to dark moving front to back along the body. Lighter areas are speckled-blue while darker areas have a more yellow-speckled appearance. The head is a plain yellow-green with sapphire-blue gill margins and eye rings. The fins are also outlined in sapphire blue. The juvenile is black with white and blue stripes.

 

The Koran Angelfish requires a 250 gallon or larger tank with large amounts of live rock for hiding and grazing upon slime algae and cyanobacteria. It is prone to nip at stony and soft corals (sessile invertebrates) and clam mantles so it is not a good candidate for a reef aquarium.