Bicolour angel reef safe?

[spicyball]

Hi...is bicolur angel reef safe??...anybody have any experience with it?

[ChasingPuck]

I have a bicolor in the reef tank, and for the most part, he is well behaved. Yellow polyps are apparently delicious, but I haven't caught him targetting anything else. Gorgonian polyps get an occasional nip, but nothing damaging.

Of course, fish are individuals--some will be fine, others will be naughty. If it's not already eating prepared foods, I would not trust it in a reef.

[brett74]

I've seen them swimming on the reefs in FIJI and they seemed safe? I didn't see one of them have an accident... :)

[bubbletip]

Like most it is always a risk to add one.

[Aaron1100us]

I've had one for allmost a year and I've only see him nip on occasion. No corals have ever been damaged by him. It is a risk with these though, some will pick at everything

[jetor]

The bi color I used to have was crazy for LPS corals. Almost killed a open brain I had......I would be cautious about adding one.

[EdKruzel]

The Bicolor is one of the "higher risk to corals" then some of the other dwarfs.

They are of course possible as you have read, however I suspect most of the tanks are not the common well diversed systems with a little of everything.

An SPS or Leather dominant tank would probably do fine with a Bicolor.
Tanks containing Brains and other LPS are at a higher risk.

Good Luck,
Ed

[jetor]

I would agree.......my old bi-color only picked on the brains and green zoos (funny thing though, he didn't like the brown ones right next to them).

[scott11]

Me bi color never picks at my corals- mushrooms, poylops, zoos, xenia