Dang This Lemon Peel

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karmagl

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So we added more fish to our tank this weekend. Now we have 1 coral beauty, 1 watchman goby, 6 blue chromis, 1 lemon peel angelfish?, and 1 banded shrimp. So the lemon peel is like huge and we had a giant feather duster in our tank. He knocked a pice of live rock over and I think he ate our feather duster it's gone. Do they normally do this. LFS is holding a fire angel ( I think thats what it's called its bright orange) Will he get along with the rest of our tank, we also have 2 clowns coming next month. Right now am feeding brine shrimp 2x a day because thats all I have. Making trip to LFS tomorrow what would be a good diet for these fish.
 
I think you can only have one Angelfish per tank. As far as diet I think they eat flakes and pellets. I have a small Flame Angel in my tank, he seems to be picking at the rocks non stop. I'm not sure what he is getting out of that.
 
I personally would not add a third angel to the tank. You should swap the lemon peel for the flame as the latter tend to be less destructive.
 
Dwarf Flame Angels are my personal favoriate as far as how nice looking a fish can be. I was never able to keep them alive though. I went through 4 of them and at $50 a pop I just gave up on them. I had a lemon peel and it did very well until I had an ich out break. It never bothered any thing else in the tank.
 
Yeh you should only really have 1 angel/per tank.

Matt
 
Alright he ate my leathers. So I am taking him in today and am going to get the flame angel and 6 more chromis.
 
You should get 5 Chromis. They are better kept in odd numbers
 
im sorry but i highly doubt your lemon peel at your leather coral or even your feather duster. Feather dusters can stay in their skin for a long time and only come out at night. Like mine. Im almost 100% sure angels dont eat leather corals or feathers.

flash
 
Im almost 100% sure angels dont eat leather corals or feathers.
You may be wrong about this one. There are tons of cases in which they did eat these.

Are the worm and coral visibly bitten apart, or are they simply gone? They could have blown away, to behind a rock; happens to me annoyingly frequently.

-Lynden
 
I'll chime in here. Lemonpeel angelfish are renowned for being one of the most indescriminate invertebrate eaters of the dwarf angel genus. I've heard more complaints of lemonpeels killing corals of all types and wreaking havoc on reef systems than i have of most of the rest of the dwarf angels combined. It seems to me (subjectively) that everyone who tries to keep a lemonpeel in a tank with corals ends up with the lemonpeel eating their corals.
 
Just the tops of them are gone and the top that is left is now white. We have almost no coral left
 

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