Poll for peope who bought Regal Angelfish in 2010

[rhouse24]

This poll is for people who purchased regal angelfish in the year 2010 ONLY. The purpose is to see if reefers are having increased long term success with the notriously delicate species.

***Please take your time to read the choices carefully.***

Thank you for participating.:wave:

 

[GvineReefer]

Had mine in QT for a month and it was eating great. Put it in my display and it was dead within a week or 2. The only other decent sized fish I had at the time was a 3.5" foxface, and it never paid any attention to the angel. Who knows what happened, but I'm guessing it stopped eating due to the transfer. Frustrating!

 

[rhouse24]

Great to see some results, let's try to get at least 10-20 responses to make it legitimate.

 

[LukFox]

I bought two regals in 2010 and they've begun spawning recently.

 

[sagecx]

I bought 2 regals in 2010 at different times. The quarantine one lasted 2 months in quarantine with no problems eating or anything. Moved to the main tank and died in a few weeks. The other one went straight into one the main tanks and has done excellent he has been alive since march 2010 and grown considerably fatter.

My friend also purchased two regals from the same place(same orders as well). Both went into the main tank. The small refused to eat and died about a month later the other one has done fine and is still alive.

I normaly quarantine most fish but i was talking to a few people that have had success and they mentioned regals just dont seem to do well in quarantine tanks.

 

[agreeive?fish]

bought mine 1 week before christmas 2010, its a blue/grey belly. it was eating nori and frozen mysis at the lfs (verified with my own eyes twice before purchase)

in my tank it would only eat nori(with a passion) but ate within minutes of being in the tank. took a couple weeks to eat frozen and 4 months to take flakes or pellets and noticed him today eating some cauleripa

i took the risk and skipped QT, fat pig now that will eat any food put in tank as food(was healthy chunky when i bought him), no issues with him what so ever

 

[Outerbank]

I bought a Vanuatu Regal angel in December 2009 and it is doing very well.

 

[rhouse24]

I bought 2 regals in 2010 at different times. The quarantine one lasted 2 months in quarantine with no problems eating or anything. Moved to the main tank and died in a few weeks. The other one went straight into one the main tanks and has done excellent he has been alive since march 2010 and grown considerably fatter.

I forgot to account for people buying more than one regal in a year, sorry about that. Which one did you use to fill out the survey and were they grey or yellow bellied?

I bought two regals in 2010 and they've begun spawning recently.

That is really great, take care of that pair What color variant were they so we can account for the extra fish?


***If you bought more that one regal during 2010 please post the survey answers for the additional fish. Thanks again for your cooperation***

 

[rhouse24]

I'm really surprised by the results so far. While this study can't make any definitive statements, just going by the data, it seems that the blue/grey bellied variants are more likely to survive than their yellow/orange counterparts.

Back in the 1980's C.W. Emmens wrote that only 1 in 10 regal survived. In 2010 it looks like the survival rate has jumped significantly to just under 50%. As always, the more data we get the more accurate this study becomes.

 

[sagecx]

I forgot to account for people buying more than one regal in a year, sorry about that. Which one did you use to fill out the survey and were they grey or yellow bellied?

***If you bought more that one regal during 2010 please post the survey answers for the additional fish. Thanks again for your cooperation***

All the ones i purchased are the blue/grey belly same for my friend. We looked for the yellow/orange ones but had very little luck finding them. From the pull results thats probably a good thing though since it seems they havent had a great survival rate.

I choose the blue grey belly and it survived on the survey, i guess actually counting me and my friend it would be 2 for that option and 2 for died possibly from starvations(not sure on mine since it ate great in the quarantine tank just didnt once moved to the display)

 

[chadfarmer]

got mine at the fish store and was eatting flake food like it was candy i had to have it after that

 

[LukFox]

That is really great, take care of that pair What color variant were they so we can account for the extra fish?

Sorry for the late reply! I actually don't know what color variant but I am saying blue belly because I don't want to get my hopes up. As juvies they all have yellow bellies so I'm not sure if maybe mine just haven't grown out of their yellow yet or if they will retain it.

 

[rhouse24]

Thank you LukFox and sagecx for the updates.

+2 I bought a blue/grey belly in 2010 and it is still alive
+2 I bought a blue/grey belly in 2010 and it died, probably from starvation

We are now have 22 responses, that is great

One interesting observation is that all 7 grey/blue bellies that died, did so from starvation. The primer thread has many stories of fat seemingly healthy regals dying suddenly from unexplained reasons, in 2010 only the yellow bellies died this way.

 

[suta4242]

Would be interesting to know how many posters also don't want to report their failures, even in a poll. :beer:

 

[rhouse24]

Would be interesting to know how many posters also don't want to report their failures, even in a poll. :beer:

That's a valid point and why the survey was made to be completely anonymous. So hopefully that number is close to null.

 

[lostanime]

I'm not posting an answer to survey poll itself since the date range isn't applicable, but figured you'd appreciate the information regardless-

We acquired a yellow belly misbar angel back in 2008. It ate from the beginning, and stayed fat and happy through 2010. We lost it early this year (2011)...it ate fine one night, and was laying on the bottom of the tank the next morning. The regal was boss as the largest fish (8"), no crabs or crazy inverts or poisonous fish in tank. It's body didn't have a mark on it, and it was still fat and brightly colored when I found it lying on bottom of tank (2 hours before it passed away).

I'm mentioning because of the reference earlier about a primer thread discussing many healthy regals dying for unexplained reasons.