Generally speaking, which corals aren’t safe with angels?

[Zionas]

Generally speaking, if I want angels to be the focus of my tank but don’t want to go FOWLR, which corals would I do best to avoid? And which corals are generally safe? I can think of Zoas and fleshy / meaty LPS at the top of my head, but not sure if there’s any other stuff to consider or avoid.

I like a flowing look in my tank, so I will definitely have GSPs and some Euphyllia.

From what I’ve gathered:

Safe-
Mushrooms
Leathers
Green Star Polyps
Most Euphyllia
Bubble Coral
Duncans
Caulastrea (Candy Cane / Trumpet)

Not Safe-
Meaty LPS (“Brain” corals)
Zoas and Palys

SPS aren’t within my scope of consideration for now because I want an “easy” tank without constantly worrying about dosing Ca and Alk or having to maintain low nutrients, or needing a very good set of lights. I am Fish > Corals but FOWLR is barren and boring for me.

BTW Happy New Year

 

[elcapitan1993]

Not safe = every coral on the planet

yes some will only nip at meaty corals but from my experience they don’t discriminate, I have seen angels nip at sps lps and softies

 

[Zionas]

Nipping okay, I’m just kind of figuring out which corals they are more likely to eat outright.

 

[TheDragonsReef]

Its going to come down to the individual fish. One might eat corals that another of the same species wouldnt. Ive seen angels eat some of the corals you listed.

 

[LAReefer4Life]

Depends on the fish. I have 4 angels, regal, conspicuous, tiger, and personifier and they nip occasionally but not enough to kill the coral. They are under 5” so who knows, one day they might get an itch for corals but for now they are doing well with montis, chalice, leathers, and mushrooms. I had zoas in the past but they gobbled this up quickly.

 

[Zionas]

Thanks. As a fellow angelfish lover this helps.

 

[i cant think]

I can’t really comment since I don’t have a truly reef safe with caution Angel at this time, but I did keep a CB, Flame, Blue Face in my LFS’s 7’ display tank. They left
Duncans
Caulastrea
Most of the Euphillia (I can’t remember which ones got nipped/eaten)
Mushroom polyps
Most encrusting LPS like Favia
Leathers
Most SPS coral.

 

[2una]

I have emperor,regal,majestic,flame but keep more sps than anything.

Favia - safe
Mushrooms discosoma - safe
Mushrooms ricordia - emperor will eat them sometimes...if small needs a guard otherwise gone.
Goniopora - if small needs a guard,emperor + majestic will pick at occasionally but then tend to leave alone.
Sand anemone - emperor will try eat
Inferno anemone - they all leave it alone & never once even wanted to taste it for some reason.
Zoas - = fish food
Chalice - safe

 

[lmgoetze]

This is very interesting to hear! … my emperor will only eat/decimate any sps I try to put in the tank and none of my softies or euphyllia!

My safe list:
- torches
- mushroom ricordea
- xenia
- zoas
- GSP
- all nems, rock nems
-Duncan (mostly - took a couple nibs but didn’t like so then left alone)

Not Safe:
- chalices
- montipora
- candy canes
- setosa
- possibly acan, still tbd

i may have a weird emperor, but I like him, so I’ve opted to make this tank sps free. Trade offs… But each fish is its own! And I hate there are no true guidelines, it’s always a test and hope, otherwise, just very expensive fish food lol

 

[Zionas]

I definitely love angels more than corals! Hah. Emperors are nice but they get too large for the average tank though. Plus they’re not captive bred yet so maybe one day when they’re captive bred + I can afford the space and money for a huge tank, haha.

I would say though when it comes to large angels (excluding Genicanthus) my favorite are:
1. Regal (Yellow Belly)
2. Blue Line and the “Maze” hybrids
3. Goldflake
4. Bandit
5. Majestic

For dwarfs:
1. Venusta
2. Coral Beauty
3. Flame
4. Multi-Bar
5. Lemonpeel (yes I know their reputation so I’m not considering one)

(Colin’s would probably tie with Lemonpeel)

And for the higher end dwarfs, my favorite is C. Interrupta. P. Boylei and P. Narcosis, sure, but that’s unobtainable territory.

 

[chema]

All my Acropora, Seriatopora, Stylophora and Montipora have been safe with my dwarf and not so dwarf angels.

 

[damsels are not mean]

All angels are different. Yes meaty LPS and zoanthids are almost certainly goners and your safest options are probably leathers but sps and others may be fine. Better chance if it working if

1. Corals have grown out to colonies,, don't put it in a frag tank! Frags will get stressed by nipping too much.

2. Corals are healthy first and foremost. Predators know a sick prey animal and will take advantage of its weakened defenses.

3. Decide whether you want an angel or certain corals, and then if you decide angel understand that whatever it eats is simply not something you can keep anymore.

 

[Zionas]

I think that will be acceptable to me. All of it should be fine. I love fish more than corals anyway but FOWLR is too bland.

 

[GARRIGA]

What if one were to stick an small Emperor into a 240g SPS dominated mature tank fed adequately then would it ever be a threat considering it likely won’t ever be able to out eat the growth rate of the SPS? Can’t see it just picking one and munching away until it was gone.

Watched a video on Julian Sorungs outdoor salt pond and they also covered his SPS tank with angels. Emperor didn’t bother the majority of corals. Don’t recall exactly which ones he did like but does seem that perhaps a target rich environment might work. Assuming it doesn’t consume faster than the hobbyist would frag otherwise.

 

[GARRIGA]

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