Pygmy Golden Angel...

[inkblue]

...anyOne own or have experience with Golden Angels...:scratch: :happysad: :lovestory

 

[pecan2phat]

One here ink,
whadda ya want to know?

 

[inkblue]

aRe tHey hardy? reef-safe? how's itS behavior? wHat it eatiNg...:screama: :flower: :thanks: :goldfish2

 

[kimoyo]

Do they eat corals?

 

[pecan2phat]

Thay are not extremely hardy like a coral beauty. They are very shy and cryptic in nature, it took the one that I bought a few months before he would come out to eat when everyone else was being fed.
I would say that they need to go into an established reef tank with plenty of live rock so that they can forage on sponges and stuff from the live rock until they get comfortable with your tank and lighting. Part of it has to do with where they are caught. They are a deep water pygmy so our 1000 watts of lights don't fare well on them.
He is a SPS nipper but not enough to kill the coral. Possibly nipping at the slime but can't say for sure.
I've caught him pecking at my clams every once in a while, but again not enough to damge the clam.
Took him a couple of months but now he eats frozen prepared foods with everyone else.
I feed a combo of marine cusine, emerald entree, plankton, squid, angel/butterfly formula and mysis on a daily basis.
He's in my 120g reef tank.

 

[nycfatcow]

i was thinking about getting one of these beautys 2....they go for about 100 bucks...that seems like the flat rate...they have then at fish town and h20 occassionally....go check it out tell me how it goes maybe ill get one 2

 

[inkblue]

:starfish::bablefish:smokin: great inF0... beauty-fuL fiSh but it'd bE nice if you can seE it more oFten :thanks:

 

[griMReefer]

i would but if/when it croaks it $100+ down da drain

 

[pecan2phat]

When FT get's them in, they are $59.
I bought my Golden there last Feb.

 

[inkblue]

:afro: :starfish: :biggrinpa aweSome... i sHall wait for tHem tHere...!

 

[cmantis]

Just checking in for any golden angel owners - how they doing?

Mine are doing very well and rarely hide anymore eating everything. I wonder if I even got lucky and they are paired up.

 

[pecan2phat]

Dang cmantis, this was a post from almost 9 years ago
Glad your having good success with your Goldens.

 

[b-ridge]

whats the going rate for them now? 9 years later

 

[marrone]

About the same price, $90-$110, but they don't show up all the time.

 

[cmantis]

So a couple of months ago I lost one of my two. The cat turned off the powerhead and the temp probe being opposite the heater caused an inbalance in my temps

Today though I got two more. They will be going through my treatment regiment and light acclimation process and on to frozen food.

Tricky fish for sure but my favorites!