Blue Angel Reef Compatibilty - moving tank, dumping fish.

[trigger0214]

I am being forced to move accross the country and am looking at selling off my livestock (mainly FO liverock). I am considering selling my fish to a LFS I used to work part time at. However, I am thinking about keeping a few of my fish and converting my 125 to a reef only tank (I was orginally planning on setting up a 40 gallon reef and keeping the 125 FO). I am wondering about the comapility of my 7" blue angel in a reef tank. I am planning on keeping soft and SPS corals and maybe a few maxima clams. My biggest concern is the clams. Will the angel nip at the clams, or will it ok? I am also considering keeping my 6" harlequin tusk, but am also concerned about him diniong on the clean up crew......


PS If anyone is interested I have a 7" queen trigger and a 4" blue line trigger up for grabs

 

[Dewman]

You have a Tusk!!!

Man, wish I could have one of those.
Will never happen though. I can just hear the crab shells crunching already.
I am not an authority on much, but I have done quite a bit of research on the Tusk because I love them so much.
They are funny animals. Much of what I have read says they are crustacean eaters in the wild, but when faced with home aquarium conditions and regular feedings, wild-caught fish tend to stay away from the crabs.
But then again, I don't know if any of these guys are captive bred (doubt it) and do you really want to take that chance with your clean-up crew???

Sorry, I guess that's not much help after all.
I bet I could find a nice warm home for the Tusk though :wink:

 

[jwtrojan44]

Generally, the Holacanthus and Pomacanthus genus angels are not considered reef safe. Blues will munch on soft corals and nip at clam mantles. I've heard of folks succesfully keeping them in a reef setting, but it's a major crap shoot. I have a Blueface angel in a FO tank with some shrooms, which he doesn't touch, but I'd likely not risk placing him in a reef tank. If you want to try, be sure to keep him well fed, including sponge based foods. He might just leave your corals alone.

 

[Anonymous]

PS If anyone is interested I have a 7" queen trigger and a 4" blue line trigger up for grabs

Where are you?



-John

 

[Anonymous]

You have a Tusk!!!

Man, wish I could have one of those.
Will never happen though. I can just hear the crab shells crunching already.
I am not an authority on much, but I have done quite a bit of research on the Tusk because I love them so much.
They are funny animals. Much of what I have read says they are crustacean eaters in the wild, but when faced with home aquarium conditions and regular feedings, wild-caught fish tend to stay away from the crabs.
But then again, I don't know if any of these guys are captive bred (doubt it) and do you really want to take that chance with your clean-up crew???

Sorry, I guess that's not much help after all.
I bet I could find a nice warm home for the Tusk though :wink:

Glad to see I'm not the only tusk-freak out there!! They are by far my favorite fish. About six months ago a 2 1/2" juvenile came through the LFS here and I couldn't resist. He went into my 75 gal reef, where he promptly swam to the bottom of the tank and took a nip out of a leather coral. Then he swam to the other end of the tank and picked up some of the chopped shrimp I had tossed in to distract the other fish during the actual introduction. He never touched anything in the tank again that he wasn't supposed to. I think the nip at the leather was more of a stress thing than anything else. He even left the cleaner and peppermint shrimp completely alone. Unfortunately he wandered into my gigantea anemone two months later.

I'll definitely try another tusk in my reef, but not until I get everything moved into my 125, which needs its stand built...sooo another year or so.


-John

 

[trigger0214]

Generally, the Holacanthus and Pomacanthus genus angels are not considered reef safe. Blues will munch on soft corals and nip at clam mantles. I've heard of folks succesfully keeping them in a reef setting, but it's a major crap shoot.

I've never had a problem with the angel eating my Xenia, but I hear that they produce toxins to protect themselves. I'm not sure if other species would be more likely to eaten or not. Any thoughts?

Where are you?

Boulder, CO......

Man, wish I could have one of those.

Me too...