Coral beauty Angle Fish is it reef safe

[Lorie C]

I want a Coral beauty for my 55 moving up to 110 in about 6 to 8 months is it safe for my corals. Also is there any reef safe puffer fish anyone knows of. Please help a newibe

Lorie

[ct67stang]

I was just talking to the crew at aquadome and yes the coral beauty is reef safe. the flame angel is what I was wanting but he says they are hit n miss when it comes to eating coral.

[subsea]

IMO, all Drawf angels are hit and miss as far as reef safe.

Puffer Fish should be kept in predator tanks.

Patrick

[bigmike015]

I've had a coral beauty for about a week, then it disappeared. I have had a flame angle for 4 months with no problems

[Timfish]

In all my years of keeping dwarfs and reefs I've only once seen a dwarf angel eat a coral. And I was glad it did, it was a damaged frogspawn polyp and a dwarf angel eagerly ripped it to shreds and left all the healthy polyps alone. I have also seen this same thing happen with a damaged acan colony that had the damaged polyps picked clean by a Zebrasoma rostrum tang and several wrasses, once the damaged polyps were removed the fish moved on leaving the healthy polyps alone.

[Lorie C]

Ok I was hoping there was a reef safe puffer as my husband owns a inflatible bounce house buiness and we thought puffer would be cool in the office tank

[ct67stang]

Ok I was hoping there was a reef safe puffer as my husband owns a inflatible bounce house buiness and we thought puffer would be cool in the office tank

funny:)

[+Mlaw]

Ok I was hoping there was a reef safe puffer as my husband owns a inflatible bounce house buiness and we thought puffer would be cool in the office tank

Sounds like an episode of Tanked, and they would just throw it in there.

[mFrame]

My coral beauty is reef safe but at times has been the bully of the tank. Definitely add it last or near last if you get one.

[Sascha D.]

Ok I was hoping there was a reef safe puffer as my husband owns a inflatible bounce house buiness and we thought puffer would be cool in the office tank

Technically, puffers don't eat coral. So you could put one in a tank in his business and still have corals. They will eat all of your beneficial inverts though, so you can't have any snails, shrimp, crabs, etc, in the tank. There are lots of things that aren't "reef safe" in books but can do just fine in coral tanks. I've seen enough successful coral display tanks that also have puffers, groupers, lions, large wrasses, eels, and such within them. You should be careful when stocking a tank with any of these larger fish because they cause a heavy bioload.

In all my years of keeping dwarfs and reefs I've only once seen a dwarf angel eat a coral. And I was glad it did, it was a damaged frogspawn polyp and a dwarf angel eagerly ripped it to shreds and left all the healthy polyps alone. I have also seen this same thing happen with a damaged acan colony that had the damaged polyps picked clean by a Zebrasoma rostrum tang and several wrasses, once the damaged polyps were removed the fish moved on leaving the healthy polyps alone.

My experience has been similar to Timfish. I had a Flame Angel for 2 years and he ate all of my GSP and Yellow Polyps, but left the LPS alone. I had a Coral Beauty for 5 years and I've never witnessed him eating anything. With that said though, every book I've ever read says they may or may not nip at LPS.