Angel Fish

Good article on Angels. No Queen or Blue face for me ... sigh.

Angels consist some of the most beautifully coloured fish that can be kept in the reef aquarium. However keeping them requires careful selection. Small angels of genus Centropyge tend to be the least destructive, with some of the large angels being very destructive. There is a danger to soft corals especially zoanthid, hard corals especially LPS and also a tendancy to pick at clams. Any coral not at it's best will also attract the attention of the resident angel. They can live for months with a coral and not touch it in any way, then something happens such as a heater failure etc., the coral sulks and the angel decides that it would make a good meal. Angels are browsers and have the tendacy to graze and taste whether something is ediable. Normally they tend to feed on the mucus of corals rather than the corals themselves. Corals least likely to picked upon are noxious corals such as mushroom corals and soft corals of the genus Alcyonium and Cladiella. As a generalisation (there are exceptions) feeding angels does not raise many problems, as they will accept a variety of food commonly available. Being omnivorous, it is important to include marine algae in their diet. Especially with the larger angels, try to feed a food mix that contain sponges as this forms part of their diet in the wild. Keeping angels well fed and staggering the feeding 2-3 times a day will minimise the risk to corals in the tank. There should be plenty of liverock for the angel to browse. Angels have a gill spine, you need to be careful that this isn't caught in the net when capturing the fish.
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