Flame angel just went Freddy Krueger on my corals

KMH231 · 03/17/2018, 02:30 PM

Any chance my flame angel will stop his destruction. Took out 2 open brain corals and a stylophora?

praveen956 · 03/17/2018, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by KMH231

Any chance my flame angel will stop his destruction. Took out 2 open brain corals and a stylophora?

Remove it.. mine did the same with acan and had to remove the entire the aquascape to take him out.. im sorry that it happened to you.. but remove him before more damage.. if you can wait, try to feed some nori and see if it makes him to nip less .. good luck!

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albano · 03/17/2018, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by KMH231

Any chance my flame angel will stop his destruction...

Doubtful... Time to trade or sell it.

NYCBOB · 03/17/2018, 02:48 PM

when a fish goes turbo, there is no going back. take it out.

KMH231 · 03/17/2018, 03:03 PM

That’s what I was afraid of. He’s gonna go bye bye. Too bad cause he was a good lookin fish.

ethuman · 03/17/2018, 08:27 PM

They are hit and miss. See if you LFS will trade you for another one you might get lucky

ReefkeeperZ · 03/18/2018, 03:19 AM

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Originally Posted by NYCBOB

when a fish goes turbo, there is no going back. take it out.

I had to laugh at the almost quote from wreck it ralph.
but I agree he's going to keep on going.

KMH231 · 03/18/2018, 10:45 AM

Got em out took all morning. Had to take all the rocks out and put em in my brute mixing container. Took all the corals and put them in my quarantine tank... then wouldn’t ya know he wasn’t in the tank anymore. Looked in the overflow looked in the filter sock looked on the carpet. Nothing! So I put all the rocks back did a new aquascape. And the little bugger was in the brute can just hangin out. Must have been crammed way up in a hole in the live rock when I was taking it all out. He’s a Houdini and a terror. He’s in my quarantine now to settle down so I can take him back to the lfs. Man I really liked that fish but I like my corals a little bit better! Happy reefing

NYCBOB · 03/18/2018, 10:56 AM

good luck. i had a sailfin tang back in the days that went turbo on my clams. the fish trap that worked for me all the time is the aquamedic fishtrap. a little pricey but works every time.

d0ughb0y · 03/18/2018, 02:36 PM

Its a shame some nice looking fish are not reef safe. There are recent threads about reef safety of buttlerfly fish and angel fish.
I suppose it would not be a bad idea to keep them in a fish only with live rock tank.

03/17/2018, 02:30 PM	#1
KMH231 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Troy michigan Posts: 18	Flame angel just went Freddy Krueger on my corals Any chance my flame angel will stop his destruction. Took out 2 open brain corals and a stylophora?

03/18/2018, 02:36 PM	#10
d0ughb0y Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: sf bay area Posts: 5,165	Its a shame some nice looking fish are not reef safe. There are recent threads about reef safety of buttlerfly fish and angel fish. I suppose it would not be a bad idea to keep them in a fish only with live rock tank. Last edited by d0ughb0y; 03/18/2018 at 02:42 PM.

03/17/2018, 02:48 PM	#4
NYCBOB Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: NYC Posts: 1,768	when a fish goes turbo, there is no going back. take it out.

03/17/2018, 03:03 PM	#5
KMH231 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Troy michigan Posts: 18	That’s what I was afraid of. He’s gonna go bye bye. Too bad cause he was a good lookin fish.

03/17/2018, 08:27 PM	#6
ethuman Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Buffalo,NY Posts: 194	They are hit and miss. See if you LFS will trade you for another one you might get lucky

03/18/2018, 10:45 AM	#8
KMH231 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Troy michigan Posts: 18	Got em out took all morning. Had to take all the rocks out and put em in my brute mixing container. Took all the corals and put them in my quarantine tank... then wouldn’t ya know he wasn’t in the tank anymore. Looked in the overflow looked in the filter sock looked on the carpet. Nothing! So I put all the rocks back did a new aquascape. And the little bugger was in the brute can just hangin out. Must have been crammed way up in a hole in the live rock when I was taking it all out. He’s a Houdini and a terror. He’s in my quarantine now to settle down so I can take him back to the lfs. Man I really liked that fish but I like my corals a little bit better! Happy reefing

03/18/2018, 10:56 AM	#9
NYCBOB Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: NYC Posts: 1,768	good luck. i had a sailfin tang back in the days that went turbo on my clams. the fish trap that worked for me all the time is the aquamedic fishtrap. a little pricey but works every time.