michealprater
Aquarium Advice Addict
First off, let me say, if you have not heard already, my LFS is Slice of Nature Pets, in Vandalia IL. Also let me tell you that my LFS rocks. I had been wanting to put a flame angel and a flameback angel in my tank for awhile now. However I was worried about how they would get along. I let Dean, the owner of Slice of Nature Pets, know that I was wanting to do this. So Dean order both angels at the same time and put them in the same tank in his quarantine system to see how they faired together. The cool thing is , I did not accually ask him to do it, he just did it for me. Well I called him he told me they were doing good together, a little scrapie, but nothing out of the ordinary. So he asked me if I wanted them. I did not have 100 bucks on me so he is going to put them on hold and allow me to make payments. That Rocks!! Well I feel good about this one because me, Dean, and Mike Garrison have been proving time and time again, that the "one angel fish per tank rule", is a bunch of malarky. Now by saying that I mean if your tank is able to house more than one angel at full size. But as far as compatibility, they may scrap a little, but so far we have not see one kill another. Also I must tell you that our experiments have only consisted of small dwarf angels from the genus Centropyge. We have not dealt with large (holacanthus and pomacanthus) of medium (chaetodontoplus and genicanthus) angels, because we have been putting these angels in reef tanks and the mediums and larges are mostly not reef safe. However we have found a lot of the dwarfs to be reef safe, but once in a while we will get one that nips at corals. I have never had a problem with flame angels nipping at corals, nor have I heard any bad stories on them. I have always had good luck with Coral Beauties, but Dean has heard of people getting coral nippers. Mike Garrison also had a bicolor and a rock beauty that he had to remove because it was picking at corals. So I would like to here you guys experience with small angels, and I will post pics of my new ones when I get them in the main tank.