Are Coral beauty angelfish reef friendly?

[Dondada]

Hello all,

I am looking to get a coral beauty angelfish but I was wondering if they are reef friendly?

thanks for the help

 

[saltwater60]

For the most part yes but they are reef safe with caution. Most people have good success with them.

 

[AquaPhilNJ]

I'd say the threads are out there, and from what i've heard they really like those brain corals, if they ever go after anything that is.

 

[tuggerlake26]

When I had one in the past, it was fine except for more flesh LPS. If didn't bother my softies. I didn't have SPS so I can't speak to that.

 

[Jesterrace]

Hello all,

I am looking to get a coral beauty angelfish but I was wondering if they are reef friendly?

thanks for the help

Gamble. Unfortunately mine has taken a liking with my new Indo Trachyphillia aka Brain Coral, but it leaves my Duncan, Frogspawns and Hammers alone and didn't bother my Zoanthid Polyps when I had them (my Long Spined Urchin did them in).

 

[saltwater60]

Gamble. Unfortunately mine has taken a liking with my new Indo Trachyphillia aka Brain Coral, but it leaves my Duncan, Frogspawns and Hammers alone and didn't bother my Zoanthid Polyps when I had them (my Long Spined Urchin did them in).

Yep. They like those brain corals. I stay away from anything that says reef safe with caution. I’m always the one that gets stuck with the caution side of it and they eat my stuff

 

[e_watson09]

Over the years (my big reef tank has been running over 15 years now) we have had coral beauties in the reef. We never had issues with them with the exception of one fish. This fish did nip a little bit at the corals. We found it was way better if we kept the fish well fed. So we broke up our feedings and instead of one big one we did multiple small ones through the day. That really helped in our case. But my overall experience is the large majority we had didn't bother them

 

[Jesterrace]

Over the years (my big reef tank has been running over 15 years now) we have had coral beauties in the reef. We never had issues with them with the exception of one fish. This fish did nip a little bit at the corals. We found it was way better if we kept the fish well fed. So we broke up our feedings and instead of one big one we did multiple small ones through the day. That really helped in our case. But my overall experience is the large majority we had didn't bother them

In general that's what I have followed as well. Also helps to do a feeding of Seaweed each day. Other than the Trachyphillia mine has pretty much been a model citizen. Hasn't touched my Duncan, and other than some early exploratory nips at a Hammer Coral (which it has since discontinued) it hasn't touched anything. Had some Zoanthids in there for a while and it didn't mess with them either.