Any bandit angelfish reef tank luck?

[Still_human]

Ive heard that as far as angelfish go, bandit angelfish can relatively safe for reef tanks. Does anyone have successful experience, or unsuccessful attempts at keeping a bandit in a reef?

 

ive heard the same for goldflakes, so if anyone happens to have info on that, Id be happy to hear, also.

Edited February 16, 2019 by Still_human

[Still_human]

No one has had personal experience, or even just heard of experiences of bandits, or goldflakes in reef tanks?

[RW09903]

I've personally seen goldflake angels in a sps dominated system.  All inheritance were feed frozen food and nori daily.

[hlem]

I have a friend with both in his tank. got them both as super small juvi. ~1". havent seen the tank in a year or so, but he had everything, mainly sps, some LPS and some zoas. 

[Still_human]

23 hours ago, RW09903 said:

I've personally seen goldflake angels in a sps dominated system.  All inheritance were feed frozen food and nori daily.

 

22 hours ago, hlem said:

I have a friend with both in his tank. got them both as super small juvi. ~1". havent seen the tank in a year or so, but he had everything, mainly sps, some LPS and some zoas. 

 

Awesome, thank you so much! Im going to have everything in it too, so I was was worried I'd have SOMETHING they'd want to eat.

Mine are bigger than an inch though, but hopefully that wouldn't make much of a difference.

[overklok]

I used to have a Bandit Angel in a SPS LPS reef, no problems.

[Still_human]

On 3/7/2019 at 8:09 AM, overklok said:

I used to have a Bandit Angel in a SPS LPS reef, no problems.

Fantastic! I'm so relieved to hear about all these positive experiences! If I just heard one, I'd still be worried, but this many good, and no bad, definitely points to it being a theme, and not just a fluke:)

thanks so much for you guys' input! Im still interested in hearing of anyone else's experiences, positive or negative!

[lowsingle]

I purchased a baby gold flake angel (a gorgeous fish) but he ate every type of coral I had....I had to tear apart the tank to get him out....I will not try again.

 

Darren

 

[pizzaguy]

I have multiple Angel's in a large mixed reef. Goldflake, regal, queen, emperor, and plan to add a blue face. Only coral I cannot keep is acans and really soft stuff like meat coral and wellso. I have tons of frog spawn torch sps zoas gorgs chalices 

[Still_human]

On 3/16/2019 at 12:28 AM, lowsingle said:

I purchased a baby gold flake angel (a gorgeous fish) but he ate every type of coral I had....I had to tear apart the tank to get him out....I will not try again.

 

Darren

 

Oh wow, that's a monkey wrench, right there! Thanks very much for letting me know your experience! I'd actually PREFER to put my goldflake into the reef, if I had to choose, but it's almost definite it'll need to be the bandit, just to get him away from my poor butterfly fish that he HATES! I wish I could just put the poor butterfly in the reef, but even though he loves all of his foods now, I know his true coral-loving nature would kick in when surrounded by his natural food. Especially when he wouldn't be getting fed as much in the reef. The bandits kind of a bully to everyone anyway, though... Hopefully he'll leave the much smaller fish in the reef alone.

Edited April 2, 2019 by Still_human

[Still_human]

On 3/16/2019 at 9:44 AM, pizzaguy said:

I have multiple Angel's in a large mixed reef. Goldflake, regal, queen, emperor, and plan to add a blue face. Only coral I cannot keep is acans and really soft stuff like meat coral and wellso. I have tons of frog spawn torch sps zoas gorgs chalices 

Wow, I'm impressed! I thought most of those were serious coral pickers!