I live in São Paulo, Brazil, where the aforementioned study was carried out, and one of the stories told about the maintenance of Pomacanthids in coral systems is that some species collected in the wild have a greater chance of success if they arrive very young, such as Pomacanthus paru , others that are young, but not so young, such as Holacanthus ciliaris, and others, such as Holacanthus tricolor, are the adults that are most likely to adapt to confinement, PRECISELY DUE TO THEIR EATING HABITS! Holacanthus tricolor adults tend to have a more diverse diet and can only live with a small amount of sponges in their diet, unlike young fish, which eat almost exclusively sponges!
Can y’all do a video about introducing Acropora into a reef aquarium? Like dipping, signs of health, initial placement in the rack, how to tell when it’s ready to get glued into the rock work, and how y’all go about that.
I don't know that I could pick a favorite angelfish, but one of my goals for the future is to have a reef tank large enough for an Emperor angelfish, preferably one that grows over a foot long. There's beauty in the colors and patterns on them, but there's a whole separate aspect of beauty when you have the pleasure of seeing a large, mature, healthy adult like that.
I have a flame angel and a female Watanabei angel in my LPS dominant 160 gallon reef tank and there are no issues. Genicanthus species are always the safest bet and are probably more reef safe than tangs. My flame angel is behaving well so far. These 2 species are my favorite options for playing it safe. I look forward to seeing how your experiment plays out long term as it would be great to have more angelfish options in a reef tank.
My favorite is the Majestic Angel definitely a dream fish of mine. I’ve had great success with dwarf species (bicolor and multicolor) feeding red, green, and brown nori as well as spirulina enriched mysis. They also love to graze on the various sponges that pop up throughout
I had an asfur angel in my last tank. They did try to mow down the corals(clove polyps and mushrooms), but they were growing so fast that it didn't matter.
Similar to one of our tank tours, Mark Hatter had an Emperor Angelfish that didn't destroy his acro colonies and was mainly due to how large his colonies were! -Blaine
@@TopShelfAquatics Man, getting acros that big is a hell of a feat itself. I only do predator tanks so they wouldn't hold up for me. Tell him he ws doing some wizardry.
I have a captive bred Coral Beauty, a captive bread Flame Angel, and a wild caught Red Sea Regal Angel in my 180 mixed reef and the all don’t do any damage to any of my corals. The Regal has munched a couple of Zoanthid colonies but doesn’t touch my Utter Chaos colony. All eat flake and whatever else I feed.
Aquaculture is always better regardless of temperament, behavior, and dietary differences.as community we should ass be striving to reach a point where our hobby can be fully sustained through aqua culture so that we can stop remoming plants and animals from the ocean.
