Flame Angel Help

[dwanner]

I currently have a pair of true Hawaiian flame angels in my 55 gallon QT tank and I haven't been able to get them to eat for the past week or so. The QT tank is setup bare bottom and has a couple large pieces of hair algae covered live rock and 2 large PVC pipes for cover. The QT tank was in hypo (SPG = 1.009) when I first added the fish and it was my plan to treat them with Prazipro after they had been eating for a week and had adjusted to the QT tank. Both ate mysis and spirulina brine for the first 5 days after introduction but then started to ignore the food, so I immediately began the Prazipro treatment as I assumed the lack of appetite may be due to flukes or other interanal parasites. About 3 days into the Prazipro treatment both began eating again and but then stopped after 2 days. After the 7 day Prazipro treatment I did a large water change as instructed and waited to see if the angels would start eating again. After 2 more days of not eating I started to gradually bring the SPG up with the hopes that hypo may have something to do with their lack of appetite, but I am at 1.025 SPG now and they still aren't eating. The fish still look healthy but I am growing concerned with the fact they haven't eaten in well over a week so I am contemplating adding them to my DT as it has large quantities of live rock that should be able to provide them with a food source until they better take to captive foods. Is this a bad idea or should I give QT some more time?

 

[NYCBOB]

You should wait at least four weeks. Its not worth risking your dt livestock. Try soaking the food in garlic. They wil eat eventually if hungry.

 

[Captainfester]

my flame doesnt seem to be eating the flake that my chromis and clowns eat. he is however constantly sucking slime off the rocks and wall.

anything think this is a problem. will he eventually eat the flake or should i look into something else

 

[jcw]

I will never, ever break qt protocol again. I won't buy a fish that I'm not prepared to lose in QT for the sake of my DT.

How quickly are you changing the salinity. Did they go from the delivery bag directly into hyposalinity at 1.009? How fast are you going from hypo to normal salinity.


It seems that for me, lights out for 12-18 hours when they first arrive, then low light conditions for the following week, allows the fish to acclimate themselves to the tank with the least stress.

That said, dwarf angels can be picky eaters.