Coral beauty and/or Flame angelfish care, your experience.

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  1. Chris!

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    I totally agree. Sure when they are small and young they may play nice but trust me when they get bigger it may not be pretty.

    I had a beautiful full grown adult male that ruled my 180g.... and he was in with a much larger passer angel, a blue throat + sargassum trigger pair and he was still the boss... he tried to take out his "buddy" the coral beauty about a year after they were introduced together. No real reason just one day flipped out on the slightly smaller CB practically pinned it in the corner pecking and slapping the crap out of it like it stole from him. :(

    I have had friends with smaller tanks have the same result, just quicker.
     
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  3. Todd_Sails

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    I have 3 Dwarfs im my 125reef.
    Rust, Flame, and Coral Beauty Angels

    They have plenty of places to go, the most agressive of the 3 is the Coral Beauty Angel.
    Even he causes no problem.
    They never pick at any of my corals
    I feed them Spectrum pelets, and occassional Limpits Reef Buffet

    I've had them all over a year and a half

    I also have 3 diff. Clowns, 2 types of Tangs, a few others
     
  4. cosmo

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    Nice, wish I could add a rust, but I'm really maxed out on fish:(
     
  5. Mr. Bill

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    I had a Coral Beauty, Flame, and Bi-color Angels together in a 55g reef tank. They all basically ignored each other as well as the corals. I've also kept other CBs and FAs separately in both reef and FO tanks with no issues. At the time, I was feeding a wide variety of frozen foods. IME, they're very hardy and peaceful if given plenty of open space, rockwork, and food.
     
  6. Chris!

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    Yeah lookin at your video link I'd say your CB is more aggressive, atleast for now. But it also looks like your rusty hides alot which isn't common because they are typically more aggressive then either of the other 2.... They do seem to be smaller, not full grown, but its hard to tell for sure from the video. I'd imagine if they all reach mature male status you will have quite the battle with several losers either way.
     
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  7. Todd_Sails

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    Yes, you're observation is right. I did get them all at different times.
    I have LOTS of tunnels thru the rockwork they all 3 are always playing in.

    I think(hope) they're all 3 still growing. the CB seems a bitsa larger also.

    I hopw they continue to get along, and continue to leave all my corals alone!
    I"m actually watching them now as I type this, and they're all 3 swimming peacefully around and next to each other.
    I banking on they have so much room to play, and I occasionally change a rockwork of two, that they'll be fine.