I've got some news on my multibar angelfish project. With my recent promotion, I had a temporary cut in hours since I was training. Come January, I am to expect an extra shift or some lengthened shifts and as such I would never have the time to get the angels acclimated/conditioned to captive life. I let Kevin know this yesterday, noting I have thoughts of going a slightly different direction depending on what further steps I need to take upon arrival of the new fish. He let me know that since he will have them for 30 days at minimum, I should not need to feed the 8-10x per day normally needed for initial acclimation. He also noted that if eating flake/pellet food is wanted that he can hold on to them for an extra amount of time to have them on pellets when I get them. This goes beyond what I expect him to do for replacing a fish, but I think it is great! Kevin also noted that if I did change directions, that he would gladly condition a pair of flame angels in place of the multibars. On a side note, he already has the new pair of multibar angels for me and they are in his office tank. I'll have to do some more thinking and figuring before I make my choice, so more to come on that.
Both will eat PE mysis readily, but are still at a stage of what I consider needing 4 feedings per day. They typically won't eat more than a few large mysis shrimp per sitting (they are still small, I would say the small one is about the size of the original female and the larger just about half an inch larger), and as such will keep up with smaller more frequent feedings. They might eat some more in a sitting if I bumped the temp up some (76ish right now), but that'll come slowly after several weeks. Brine shrimp is taken with the same amount of gusto, but more shrimp is eaten due to a smaller size.
So fart they are looking great though! I'll be updating weekly for a couple months and continue to do so when I get spawns.
