View Full Version : Lemonpeel Angelfish - What corals does it eat particularly?
chrisbenavides
05/17/2006, 03:12 PM
The reason I got into this hobby was because I fell in love with the lemonpeel angelfish. I love corals too. I just wanted to know what kind of corals do the thse fish eat? Maybe I can keep this fish with my corals, maybe not.
Any info?
Thanks!
- Chris
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chrisbenavides
05/17/2006, 04:43 PM
bump ;)
Lemonpeels are considered dwarf angelfish. There's no way to say which corals in particular they'd eat, or even if they will eat coral...it's specific to particular fish in that catagory...but from what I've read about these angelfish, they have a propensity to eat zoanthids and also pick on the mantels of open brain corals more than other coral.
chrisbenavides
05/17/2006, 09:13 PM
So they like Zoos and brains.... What about Xenias?
Also, what tank mates are good to have with a lemonpeel angel
Amphiprion
05/17/2006, 09:23 PM
Most probably won't mess with Xeniids, due to the noxiousness of these species. I think the primary ones you should worry about are larger polyped corals and copious slime producers (which many angels seem to like). It does vary from fish to fish, however, as you may get a good or bad individual. All of these are just generalizations.
chrisbenavides
05/17/2006, 11:22 PM
Any good tank mates for this fish? How do they with inverts? With shrimps and stars?
Toddrtrex
05/17/2006, 11:43 PM
I moved mine from my 58 to my 75 because it was picking on my SPS, but it left my clam alone. It was fine with both Skunk Cleaners and Pep. shrimps. Oh, it also started to pick on my Haddoni Carpet.
It got along fine with my Flame angel. Had some battles with my saddleback clowns (because it was picking at their anemone)
It is now in my 75. Hasn't touched my mushrooms (wish it would), it gets along with my purple tang. It does like to "bug" my clarkii pair, nothing major, but I swear it goes by them just to tick them off.
With all that said, each one will have its own personality.
bllfish
05/18/2006, 03:50 AM
your favorite or most expensive coral:eek1:
chrisbenavides
05/18/2006, 09:54 AM
Are they hard to catch once in the aquarium? I don't want to add it without me having the possibility of catching it without moving the rocks. Are they fast like tangs?
Toddrtrex
05/18/2006, 10:00 AM
I caught mine when I was moving the tank, I didn't even think about catching it before than.
Jeremy Blaze
05/18/2006, 10:16 AM
I have a pair in our large tank.
I have seen them nip at, lobophillia, Pavona, Gigas clam, and an occasional acro. However, it appears that it only nips at the mucus layer and I have never seen any damage done to these corals.
Also in the tank are, hammer, frogspawn, montipora, maze brains, favias, mushrooms, zoanthids, xenia. Never bothers any of these.
The only corals mine have harmed were cynarinas, which they killed.
I have many other fish in the tank, tangs, other angels, clowns, anthias, etc...
I have never seen any aggresive interactions between the lemons and any other fish.
Toddrtrex
05/18/2006, 10:24 AM
Jeremy brings up a good point. WHen I had mine with my SPS I still had good growth and color, but no PE, since it has been out of the tank, I have great PE.
chrisbenavides
05/18/2006, 10:50 AM
So its basically up in there with the lemonpeel that I get. I have Xenias, Mushrooms, polyps, Torch, and zoanthids. Just hope it is easy to catch if I need to put him in a different tank.
chrisbenavides
05/18/2006, 05:57 PM
bump discussion
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