Dwarf Flame Angel Question

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I don't have any fish in my tank yet (it's still cycling.) I was wondering if a dwarf flame angel would be happy in a 45 gallon tank. I plan on getting 4 blue reef chromis as my first fish, then 2 black and white clownfish. Would getting the angel fish be pushing it?

As for other life forms, we'll be getting a complete clean-up crew and LR, er not in that order ;)
 
if i were you i would get like 5 or 6 chromises because i bought 3 chromises for my 135 gallon tank and after about five minutes my sixline wrasse had already begun to attack the treo. he would scare them so that one would get separated from the school and after he did that he would chase them into the rocks and i never saw them again. i think u might be able to do it if your tank has plenty of places to hide and places for your fish to retreat. about the clowns the only way you could get two of them is if they are a pair and i've heard they can take over a tank so i think the flame agel would keep them in line

Hope this helps Bijan
 
I'd be careful with clowns and chromis. They could make your chromis' lives living hell. I tend to keep peaceful fish in my tank just because I like to get a few schools (have a school of 6 blue green chromis right now with a school of 3 cardinal fish) without worrying about some other species fighting. Many people and I tend to agree feel that 75 gal is a minimum for multiple clowns so they can set up territories away from one another and guard those. Dwarf angel might work with a big school of chromis so he/she can be big fish on campus and the chromis have numbers to feel secure.
 
Originally posted by cpn_aaron
I'd be careful with clowns and chromis. They could make your chromis' lives living hell. I tend to keep peaceful fish in my tank just because I like to get a few schools (have a school of 6 blue green chromis right now with a school of 3 cardinal fish) without worrying about some other species fighting. Many people and I tend to agree feel that 75 gal is a minimum for multiple clowns so they can set up territories away from one another and guard those. Dwarf angel might work with a big school of chromis so he/she can be big fish on campus and the chromis have numbers to feel secure.
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I keep Flame angels in tanks with Clowns as small as 55 gallons. I do not have any chromis in them. I would worry about the Chromis surviving, but that is a guess.

Ray
 
To be more specific...

We had originally been thinking about 4 blue reef chromises introduced as the first fish. 1-4 months later, we would add a pair of juvenile A. polymnus (saddleback) clowns (going for a mated pair in the long run), possibly with a pair of fire shrimp.

Becky likes both the idea of a small watchman goby (such as Cryptocentrus cinctus) and a flame angel. I was thinking that might be overstocked and raise the potential for fighting.

The chromis would grow to be the largest of the fish in there, 5+" compared to 4" for the clowns or flame angel. The gobies we had looked at cursorily tended to max out at 3".

Here is a link with more details about our tank:
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28444

It sounds like chromis and clownfish can live in the same tank, but the tank needs to be somewhat larger than this one?
 
5" for chromis sounds pretty large to me. Most I thought maxed out at 3"(like blue/greens), with blackmouth bicolor being the largest (5"). Gobies are always fun, I had a watchmen a while back and he was a friendly guy. The clowns could work since others say they have done it. They just might be nippy until they pair up.
 
Blue Reef chromis reach 15 cm in the wild from what I've read, but rarely much over 5" in aquaria. This is the Carribean species, Chromis cyanea. They are often seen in company with Chromis multilineata, which reaches 20 cm (about 8") in the wild. 5" is certainly not the largest for a wild species from what I've read.

Live Aquaria and various other live fish sites list them reaching 5" in aquaria. Robert Fenner lists them reaching 4". I don't know if he just meant in his tank, though.
 
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