Juvenile red sea regal angel or not?!

[alton]

I have had both redsea and several from maldives, there is no visible difference that I can tell. Although the one I had in my office did very well, the two I have now in my 180 do very well on mini mysis, spiralina brine and LRS. LRS is a good solid food and not 40% water.

 

[ThRoewer]

Anyone know answer to my question??


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Adult Maldives Regals are very close in coloration to Red Sea Regals.

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[OrionN]

Having two Philipines Regals and one Red Sea and one Indian Ocean Regals, I find that Regal angels are born yellow with the white and blue color developed as they age. Pacific Regal continue to have more white and blue while the Indian Ocean and Red Sea Regal have color development arrested at an earlier age. This result in a lighter fish in IO and RS and darker fish in the Pacific. Not only the chest of the Pacific fish blue, the blue bands and the white bands are wider, especially the blue ones. Brief glance at these fish, one will see a bluer, darker fish (IP) vs a lighter, more yellow fish (RS/IO)

 

[OrionN]

These are pictures of the Regal angels at about the same size for color comparison, both baby and both adult coloration but not fully adult. The shape of my IO regal is more elongate in compare to the body shape of my Indo Pacific (IP). This is likely due to the IO is the male and IP is a female.
As you can see, whether RS/IO/IP, all are extremely graceful and exceptionally beautiful fish.

Baby IP

Baby IO

Semi adult female IP

Semi adult Male RS