Potter's Angel Experience?

[arc eye]

Anyone local have experience with potter's angels? Thinking about adding one.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=22340869#post22340869

 

[fishmonger007]

Had one for 3 years and lost it during a tank crash. Awesome little fish. Be sure you get one that has been at the store for a while and is eating!
Mine ate Rod's, mysis and pellets (in order of preference).

 

[Tenny]

I got one from Neptune Aquatic's in September (2013).

As fishmonger007 said, make sure he eats. Neptune's said they were eating but I failed to ask them to show me. I ended up going back and asking if the others were eating and they tried to show me but the other potter angel they had didn't at the time.

I tried everything to get him to eat. I feed my fish several different frozen food's and he wouldnt' take to any. Wouldn't eat the flakes, wouldn't eat the seaweed. Eventually I broke down and bought live brine shrimp (while I have heard they aren't very beneficial, but it is 'something"). He started eating that, and then as time went on I'd start mixing some live with frozen ones, etc.

Now he eats everything.

He is my favorite fish in my tank that's for sure. He has more energy, he's more interactive than any other fish I have. He's always at the front glass looking to see what's going on. I recently rescued a Yellow Tang, which is double his size, and literally in the first 12 hours they are constantly swimming together. I gave the Yellow Tang some seaweed yesterday and suddenly the Potter's Angel became interested in the seaweed too. So both of them are going to town eating that now too!

The only downside is the same with other dwarf angels... they can pick. Mine has taken a liking to about 4 "colors" of my acan's. So at the moment those four acan's have been living a life under a strawberry crate, but they are about to get moved to my frag tank (maybe today). The rest of my corals and other color acan's seem to be thriving with him still. If he starts to pick at others though, he will have to be removed

 

[basicreef]

Mine eat right away, guess I was lucky, but later trade him in for a flameback angel which now had been in my tank for three years.

 

[arc eye]

Thanks for the advice. Did you quarantine yours? I'm a little afraid to after hearing how difficult they can be.

Also, to mitigate picking on clams and sps, I thought about cultivating sacrificial zoas in my sump to be continually replenished in the DT.

I got one from Neptune Aquatic's in September (2013).

As fishmonger007 said, make sure he eats. Neptune's said they were eating but I failed to ask them to show me. I ended up going back and asking if the others were eating and they tried to show me but the other potter angel they had didn't at the time.

I tried everything to get him to eat. I feed my fish several different frozen food's and he wouldnt' take to any. Wouldn't eat the flakes, wouldn't eat the seaweed. Eventually I broke down and bought live brine shrimp (while I have heard they aren't very beneficial, but it is 'something"). He started eating that, and then as time went on I'd start mixing some live with frozen ones, etc.

Now he eats everything.

He is my favorite fish in my tank that's for sure. He has more energy, he's more interactive than any other fish I have. He's always at the front glass looking to see what's going on. I recently rescued a Yellow Tang, which is double his size, and literally in the first 12 hours they are constantly swimming together. I gave the Yellow Tang some seaweed yesterday and suddenly the Potter's Angel became interested in the seaweed too. So both of them are going to town eating that now too!

The only downside is the same with other dwarf angels... they can pick. Mine has taken a liking to about 4 "colors" of my acan's. So at the moment those four acan's have been living a life under a strawberry crate, but they are about to get moved to my frag tank (maybe today). The rest of my corals and other color acan's seem to be thriving with him still. If he starts to pick at others though, he will have to be removed

 

[Tenny]

Thanks for the advice. Did you quarantine yours? I'm a little afraid to after hearing how difficult they can be.

Also, to mitigate picking on clams and sps, I thought about cultivating sacrificial zoas in my sump to be continually replenished in the DT.

I didn't quarantine mine... it was a purchase I wasn't planning on it.

I have no problem with my clams, and the only SPS I have are the easy ones. Getting one toe at a specific coral would be very difficult I would imagine, do you have any ideas on how to accomplish that?

One thing I've read mentioned they are difficult because they are a tad colder water species than others. I do run my tank cooler than most (76.5, chiller comes on at 77).

 

[ReeferItIs2]

I had one for a week and it died...i have bad luck with dwarf angels

 

[arc eye]

Tenny, thanks for the tip. I didnt realize they like it a little colder.

As far as getting it to eat one specific coral, I have3 no idea. I've just heard they like zoas and acans a lot....especially acans. Figured zoas would be easier to grow and replenish.

 

[Will846]

I had great luck getting them very small. And as long as you feed them they tend not to pick.

 

[Box209]

I have one in my tank with a butt load of Zoas and acans and no picking on anything all you have to do is keep them well fed. I've had him since November

 

[buddythelion]

I would imagine that the angel would prefer to nip over fleshy yummy LPS over some tough leathery zoas any day!

 

[orientalexpress]

I would imagine that the angel would prefer to nip over fleshy yummy LPS over some tough leathery zoas any day!

That not all true,my carribean angels only go after Zoas leave everything alone.

 

[Will846]

I had zoas, acans, bowerbanki's, scolys, and clams. No problem as long as I kept him well fed.