Catching a coral beauty?

[Minh Nguyen]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by KJHawley:
<strong>I've been planning on setting up my first reef tank with (among other fish) a coral beauty and flame angel, having heard that most of these will leave coral polyps alone. I take it from this thread that this is probably not a good idea? Have any of you had sucess with coral beauties or flame angels with reef tanks? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Not at all. I got 5, yes 5, angels in my 400 g tank. They are all doing very well and not bother my SPS and clams.
The five angels are:
Majestic Angle- the most beautiful angel IMO
Coral Beauty, the oldest angel in my tank. He grew from 1 inches to 2 inches over 18 months.
A pair of Cherub angels that spawn once every few nights.
An African Flamback angel. This angels have being the tank for about 3 monghs now. He innitially seem to tank a bite at the SPS polyps but not doing much of this anymore. This is it. No more angel unless I can catch the Coral beauty and replace him with another Flameback to make another pair.

 

[MandarinFish]

I FINALLY CAUGHT DISCO STU!

He was eating my clam

But I partitioned off the tank with a clear rubbermaid tub lid (had to rearrange the rock to form clear spots in the sand... otherwise he ketp escaing the partitioned area).

I got the little bugger. Now he is in my other tank where my darkfin hind has harassed him a bit. *sigh*

The hind has finally chilled a bit and remembered that it's okay to share a tank. Whew.

Now my clam will hopefully thrive, along with my corals. My CB and hind are in a tank that will now become very plant-heavy. Herbivores go with plants, carnivores go with corals.

I'm happy. Ahh.

 

[Cruzan277]

Dont know how many of your guys have the patience to try this, but put your net (black would be best) on the side where you feed your fish. Leave it in there for a few days to a few weeks until your fish get accustomed to it. My coral beauty was swimming in and out of it. One night he just swam into it and was just hanging out there. I saw him and snuck up on the tank from an area where he could not see me coming. I slowy raised the net (SLOWLY) by the time he knew what was happening it was to late. I gave him to a friend of mine now my corals are happy again.

 

[jethro]

Have you ever heard of using a 1/4 stick of dynamite float all of the fish out of a fishing hole?

Mabye a firecracker would be the equivelent for an aquarium. Only problem is you need to get a firecracker with a waterproof fuse.

Might make a mess, but youl get your fish.