Any luck with large Angel?

reefhead165 · #1 12/25/2007, 03:43 PM

I was wondering if anyone has ever had any luck with putting a large angel in a soft coral tank.....i heard they are fine in a SPS tank. I was thinking about adding a blue face angel to my tank. i have a lot of mushrooms and a colt coral, xenia, zoos and i am going to get more soft corals down the road.in terms of fish i have a blue tang, yellow tang, two percs clowns and a clarkii, and a few small fish (goby, blenny, dottyback) Does anyone think it is possible without him eating the corals?

fahadahmed · #2 12/25/2007, 03:47 PM

Are all those corals and mushrooms doing okay with power compact lights? I have power compact lights and thinking of adding corals.

reefhead165 · #3 12/25/2007, 03:54 PM

yup i even have a 30 inch deep tank Once i hit the lotto i am going to buy MH haha... i got a ton mushrooms from when Petland Naperville closed down last year. and i have a red bullseye and a ricorda and they are doing good.

reefhead165 · #4 12/25/2007, 06:36 PM

Anyone?????

reefhead165 · #5 12/25/2007, 10:23 PM

So i take it no one has ever tried then....

reefhead165 · #6 12/25/2007, 10:53 PM

anyone think it is a dumb idea?

fahadahmed · #7 12/26/2007, 01:19 AM

Hey, check out the profile of the tank of the month. I think he is doing something similar.

BTW...start a new thread if you are not getting respond.

skunkmere · #8 12/26/2007, 01:44 AM

I thought they weren't reef safe.

reefhead165 · #9 12/26/2007, 04:00 AM

fahadahmed LoL good luck but sps can't live under PC light sooo maybe you might have sps for a few weeks and it will die??? aren't you a newbie? that tank is taken care by someone that has beeen doing it for awhile FYI soo good luck on that too. Personally stop writting stuff on my threads that have nothing to do with what i am asking. If you want to send me a message you can PM me

Engine 7 · #10 12/26/2007, 09:14 AM

Large angel in a soft coral tank...Total disaster costing thousands of dollars.
SPS under PC lighting...Total disaster costing hundreds of dollars.
This thread being nominated for Thread Of The Month"...Priceless.
For everything else there's Mastercard.

reefhead165 · #11 12/26/2007, 11:10 AM

LoL nice one jeff!!!!

Engine 7 · #12 12/26/2007, 11:18 AM

hehe

Toddrtrex · #13 12/26/2007, 09:00 PM

For about 3 months I had a juvi blueface angel in a tank full of mushrooms. S/He never touched a one of them. Ended up selling all the mushroom rocks.

It is currently with SPS, a clam, and two Haddoni anemones, no issues at all. However, a zoa will last about 30 seconds in my tank.

reefhead165 · #14 12/26/2007, 09:56 PM

nice....... i soo wanna try it now

reefhead165 · #15 12/26/2007, 10:01 PM

did u have any other soft corals

Toddrtrex · #16 12/26/2007, 10:20 PM

Nope, just the SPS, clam and anemones.

Here is a picture of him from a couple of weeks ago.

And here he is when I first got him -- A little beat up from my lemonpeel angel that I sold shortly after this picture.

badazztealcobra · #17 12/26/2007, 11:34 PM

Im in the same boat.... I LOVE the looks of a mixed reef, by MAN do I really want an Emperator Angel.... I think I want one bad enough to give it a try once the tank is up and running, but would hate to lose some of the zoas and the clam that I already have...

canar · #18 12/27/2007, 12:18 AM

I have an Emporator and a Koran in my reef. It leaves all my SPS alone. It also does not bother my clams.

If a softie coral started growing in my tank I would hope he would eat it!

badazztealcobra · #19 12/27/2007, 12:43 AM

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Originally posted by canar
I have an Emporator and a Koran in my reef. It leaves all my SPS alone. It also does not bother my clams.

If a softie coral started growing in my tank I would hope he would eat it!

Thats the problem I would have, I like some of the softies, mostly zoas, and LPS like torch, frogspawn, and hammer, etc...

I would hate to have him make a meal of a bunch of $20 per polyp zoas...

Toddrtrex · #20 12/27/2007, 12:44 AM

Yea, I had my blue face make a nice meal out of a $100 zoa rock. Wasn't too happy about that, but still think it is a great fish.

Doubledown · #21 12/27/2007, 10:15 AM

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Originally posted by reefhead165
fahadahmed LoL good luck but sps can't live under PC light sooo maybe you might have sps for a few weeks and it will die??? aren't you a newbie? that tank is taken care by someone that has beeen doing it for awhile FYI soo good luck on that too. Personally stop writting stuff on my threads that have nothing to do with what i am asking. If you want to send me a message you can PM me

That is just rude. The poster was providing you with a source for more information (that the current tank of the month has a large angel - meaning you could go ask in that thread how successful he has been with it) and you bash him for it. Worse yet, you continue to ridicule the poster by calling him a newbie thus telling him his oppinion or information is not valid. He has 1 less year of experience in salt water than you do and maybe he has asked the same questions you did and was directed to the information he gave you.

A few posts up you were begging for responses to this thread. He suggested that you repost your thread and you blast him for writing stuff in your threads that have nothing to do with what you are asking. His advice to repst was valid. Many people hit the "Get New" button when coming back to RC just to see what new threads have been posted. Since your old post had gotten no responses, putting up a new post could draw more views and thus more answers.

In the interest of not being a complete jacka$$, I'll answer your original question. No, do not put a large angel in a mixed/softies reef. The fish will eat your xenia, zoas, LPS, most leathers, probably clam mantles (there are exceptions) and possibly your mushrooms (especially any of the frilly type like bulleye and ricordia).

reefhead165 · #22 12/27/2007, 10:25 AM

BTW thats not what he originaly wrote (he changed it) so you have no idea what i am talking about. Soo your telling me to talk to someone that has SPS when i have soft corals?

badazztealcobra · #23 12/27/2007, 11:58 AM

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Originally posted by reefhead165
BTW thats not what he originaly wrote (he changed it) so you have no idea what i am talking about. Soo your telling me to talk to someone that has SPS when i have soft corals?

Doesnt it say underneath your post when you edit them ??? I don't think he edited either of his posts.... Although it wouldnt be the first time I was wrong.

Toddrtrex · #24 12/27/2007, 12:00 PM

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Originally posted by badazztealcobra
He didnt change either of his posts.... Otherwise you would see "post last edited by....."

Just like this....

You have a couple minutes to edit your post before that message will appear. FYI.

badazztealcobra · #25 12/27/2007, 12:01 PM

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Originally posted by Toddrtrex
You have a couple minutes to edit your post before that message will appear. FYI.

Good to know...