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05-08-2008, 05:20 PM
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 Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! i have three small frags of Xiena and about 2 weeks ago one of them closed and has not opened it could be from something else but the other two are doing fine and just recently i have noticed my flame angel nipping on them every time he is near the rock but its just one nip so i guess they get nipped at least twice a day or sometimes when i see not at all .... is this a big deal or not cuz after he nips it opens up again (that polyp)  so is a big deal can i leave everything the way it is with them still surviving .. like can they live like this? |
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05-08-2008, 06:39 PM
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| Re: Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! give it more food!
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05-08-2008, 06:56 PM
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| Re: Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! Angels are curious, playful fish. He could just be investigating or playing. they're a lil tricky too you can have them together for months and the angel will pay no mind and then one day wake up and your xenia's gone. |
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05-08-2008, 07:07 PM
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| Re: Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! Yea but can the xiean survive like this with a couple of nips now and then ? |
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05-08-2008, 07:39 PM
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| Re: Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! I do not know, it's a gamble. you said one closed up already, right... |
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05-08-2008, 07:45 PM
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| Re: Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! I had a small xenia frag and lost it about a month and a half ago i don't know what happened but i suspect it was my blue angel. it had about 8-10 heads on it, when i woke up, it only had 2 and they just died off. |
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05-08-2008, 09:47 PM
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| Re: Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! Depends what kind of xenia it is,but they are usually pretty vigourous growers,unless they are getting eatan.So i would try to hide them if you can a little bit.Overfeeding isnt going to stop him from nipping.With flames you take a 50/50 chance that they will or wont pick at corals.After all it is an angel.And what i meant by which xenia it is because they tend to pick long tentacle brown xenia.
__________________ LET NATURE TAKE ITS COURSE.PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE. |
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05-09-2008, 04:11 PM
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| Re: Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! i think thats the one i have its like a tan color (the xiena) |
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05-10-2008, 12:32 AM
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| Re: Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! I dont believe flame angels are reef compatible!!! Mostly soft corals... |
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05-10-2008, 09:48 PM
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| Re: Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! they are its just the polyps i think they have problems with like he dosent touch my purple glove polyps but he does with my tan xiena
__________________ 40 gallon Reef with a 20 gallon high sump- One Yellow Wrasse, 2 Chromis, One Scooter Blenny, 5 Hermits, 3 Snails, 2 red foot snails, one Sand Sifting Tiger Starfish, and Corals- one frogs spawn coral, one Green striped and purple mushroom rock, one pink/tan mushroom frag, one hybrid mushroom rock, one Red mushroom, 2 differnt types of green star polyps, Two Cynarina corals, , one Fox coarl, one button polyp rock , one yellow scroll coral, one Big Orange Montipora capricornis, 13 Ricordea Mushrooms, One green Yuma, Two Blue Maxima clams , One Big Yellow Trumpet Coral, a Cabbage Leather Frag, Red Sea xiena (purple), Tan Xiena, one pink birds nest, one loco lobo leather coral, one Blastomussa Merletti, and one red lobo brain coral. Soon to hook up my CA reactor. |
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05-21-2008, 12:13 PM
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| Re: Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! I've been lucky with Dwarf Angels. I had a 75 w/softies, a Flame, an Eibl's and a Bicolor. All got along and never picked at the softies. I now have a 90 with a Flame, LPS, SPS and Softies. The Flame occasionally picks at the base of my Lobophyllia but leaves everything else alone. It does like to pick off the LR. I don't remember where I read it, but in my research, one author suggested that many dwarf angels don't eat the polyp, but graze on the mucus on the coral. Debris and microorganisms actually stick on the mucus and form a food source (I guess for the polyp as well as the angel), |
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05-21-2008, 02:52 PM
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| Re: Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! but its bad cause one polyp frag died
__________________ 40 gallon Reef with a 20 gallon high sump- One Yellow Wrasse, 2 Chromis, One Scooter Blenny, 5 Hermits, 3 Snails, 2 red foot snails, one Sand Sifting Tiger Starfish, and Corals- one frogs spawn coral, one Green striped and purple mushroom rock, one pink/tan mushroom frag, one hybrid mushroom rock, one Red mushroom, 2 differnt types of green star polyps, Two Cynarina corals, , one Fox coarl, one button polyp rock , one yellow scroll coral, one Big Orange Montipora capricornis, 13 Ricordea Mushrooms, One green Yuma, Two Blue Maxima clams , One Big Yellow Trumpet Coral, a Cabbage Leather Frag, Red Sea xiena (purple), Tan Xiena, one pink birds nest, one loco lobo leather coral, one Blastomussa Merletti, and one red lobo brain coral. Soon to hook up my CA reactor. |
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05-21-2008, 03:14 PM
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| Re: Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! ive got a flame angel and its fine with my xenia as of now anyway. i had a pair of clownfish which wouldnt leave them alone every time new heads started 2 grow they would nip at them. |
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05-21-2008, 03:53 PM
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| Re: Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! so what did you do
__________________ 40 gallon Reef with a 20 gallon high sump- One Yellow Wrasse, 2 Chromis, One Scooter Blenny, 5 Hermits, 3 Snails, 2 red foot snails, one Sand Sifting Tiger Starfish, and Corals- one frogs spawn coral, one Green striped and purple mushroom rock, one pink/tan mushroom frag, one hybrid mushroom rock, one Red mushroom, 2 differnt types of green star polyps, Two Cynarina corals, , one Fox coarl, one button polyp rock , one yellow scroll coral, one Big Orange Montipora capricornis, 13 Ricordea Mushrooms, One green Yuma, Two Blue Maxima clams , One Big Yellow Trumpet Coral, a Cabbage Leather Frag, Red Sea xiena (purple), Tan Xiena, one pink birds nest, one loco lobo leather coral, one Blastomussa Merletti, and one red lobo brain coral. Soon to hook up my CA reactor. |
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05-21-2008, 06:23 PM
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05-21-2008, 08:15 PM
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| Re: Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! am going to get rid of it before i get new lights ... so what should i replace it with
__________________ 40 gallon Reef with a 20 gallon high sump- One Yellow Wrasse, 2 Chromis, One Scooter Blenny, 5 Hermits, 3 Snails, 2 red foot snails, one Sand Sifting Tiger Starfish, and Corals- one frogs spawn coral, one Green striped and purple mushroom rock, one pink/tan mushroom frag, one hybrid mushroom rock, one Red mushroom, 2 differnt types of green star polyps, Two Cynarina corals, , one Fox coarl, one button polyp rock , one yellow scroll coral, one Big Orange Montipora capricornis, 13 Ricordea Mushrooms, One green Yuma, Two Blue Maxima clams , One Big Yellow Trumpet Coral, a Cabbage Leather Frag, Red Sea xiena (purple), Tan Xiena, one pink birds nest, one loco lobo leather coral, one Blastomussa Merletti, and one red lobo brain coral. Soon to hook up my CA reactor. |
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05-21-2008, 09:02 PM
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05-21-2008, 09:18 PM
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| Re: Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! i dnt want another small fish you see the flame angel was like the show peace cuz the rest of the fish are small and it was the most colorful one so i want something like that AND isent a TANG to SMALL for my tank...
__________________ 40 gallon Reef with a 20 gallon high sump- One Yellow Wrasse, 2 Chromis, One Scooter Blenny, 5 Hermits, 3 Snails, 2 red foot snails, one Sand Sifting Tiger Starfish, and Corals- one frogs spawn coral, one Green striped and purple mushroom rock, one pink/tan mushroom frag, one hybrid mushroom rock, one Red mushroom, 2 differnt types of green star polyps, Two Cynarina corals, , one Fox coarl, one button polyp rock , one yellow scroll coral, one Big Orange Montipora capricornis, 13 Ricordea Mushrooms, One green Yuma, Two Blue Maxima clams , One Big Yellow Trumpet Coral, a Cabbage Leather Frag, Red Sea xiena (purple), Tan Xiena, one pink birds nest, one loco lobo leather coral, one Blastomussa Merletti, and one red lobo brain coral. Soon to hook up my CA reactor. |
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05-25-2008, 12:52 PM
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| Re: Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! Yes it will be fine increase the water flow to the Xenia, the Flame shouldn't eat it. |
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05-25-2008, 02:39 PM
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| Re: Nipping Flame Angel .. HELP!! i already returned it
__________________ 40 gallon Reef with a 20 gallon high sump- One Yellow Wrasse, 2 Chromis, One Scooter Blenny, 5 Hermits, 3 Snails, 2 red foot snails, one Sand Sifting Tiger Starfish, and Corals- one frogs spawn coral, one Green striped and purple mushroom rock, one pink/tan mushroom frag, one hybrid mushroom rock, one Red mushroom, 2 differnt types of green star polyps, Two Cynarina corals, , one Fox coarl, one button polyp rock , one yellow scroll coral, one Big Orange Montipora capricornis, 13 Ricordea Mushrooms, One green Yuma, Two Blue Maxima clams , One Big Yellow Trumpet Coral, a Cabbage Leather Frag, Red Sea xiena (purple), Tan Xiena, one pink birds nest, one loco lobo leather coral, one Blastomussa Merletti, and one red lobo brain coral. Soon to hook up my CA reactor. |
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