Please help. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? I have bought two Queen angels, one I put into my 240 gallon reef and it died within a week. It got a little bit on lympho and then died which is very wierd. The second one I put into a 30 gallon xenia tank and it got ick and died within a week. In this tank, the queen was the only fish with a cleaner shrimp. Both tanks have been set up for over a year. Can someone please tell me how hardy or delicate these fish are and maybe how to keep them alive?
Queen Angel
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Queen angels are pretty indestructible. Never lost one while working at a LFS in my teens. A couple suggestions. Get a quarantine tank. Ich is easily treated outside of the display. Also, they are NOT AT ALL reef safe. So not sure why you're putting them in reef tanks. Anyways, sorry for your losses. Maybe consider a new source to purchase them from. Also, do you have other fish. Are they healthy? Have you had them a while? What are your tank parameters? Filtration? Water change schedule? Etc.
Here's a nice link:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/fishes/angels/holacanthus/ciliaris.htm
Here's a nice link:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/fishes/angels/holacanthus/ciliaris.htm
Chaotic Reefer4u
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ive had my 12,inch queen angel for about 2,years now, very fat and healthy eats anything i throw in the tank, even silversides! heres a pik of him i would like to share with you
for me, the key is to have a very seasoned aquarium to put him in before you purchase. they dont like newly setup aquariums. when i purchase a large angel i give him a freshwater dip before i throw him in the display tank. hope this helps...good luck.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6708056#post6708056 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ChAoTiCrEeFeR4U
ive had my 12,inch queen angel for about 2,years now, very fat and healthy eats anything i throw in the tank, even silversides! heres a pik of him i would like to share with youfor me, the key is to have a very seasoned aquarium to put him in before you purchase. they dont like newly setup aquariums. when i purchase a large angel i give him a freshwater dip before i throw him in the display tank. hope this helps...good luck.
From the amounts of blue around the gill area and the anal/dorsal fins where they meet the caudal fin, I'd hazard a guess that your fish may be a "townsend" - blue/queen hybrid. Looks like the couple I've ever seen. Could just be the angle of the picture though. Great looking fish, BTW.
ReefDoberman
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i advise against fw dips all together. I agree with the above posts....try a different store.
Chaotic Reefer4u
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SDGUY
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im in total agreeance with you here, it just might be the townsend/queen hybrid, good looking out sdguy
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put him in a 5, gallon empty salt bucket thats clean with ro water same temp as your display for a few minutes and then pull him out and put him in the display tank, works wonders for me, this is just my pro's here and im sticking to it, hope this helps.
CrazyLionfish
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It's hard to see from this pic, and he/she has grown a few inches since then, but do you think mine could also be the blue/queen angel mix? What are some "signs" that it is?
It's tough to tell. Yours looks like a regular, beautiful queen angel. Problem is that, and this is just personal observation, but every queen angel I've ever seen that was raised in captivity is very yellow, while adults off the reef have a lot more overall blue (and I'm not refering to the irridescent highlights either). But, the anal and dorsal fins always have that electric blue, then royal blue area right where they meet the caudal fin. This is pure yellow in adult blue angels, and mostly yellow in the hybrid, usually. ChAoTiCrEeFeR4U's pic seems to show little blue in that area, but like I said, it might be the angle of the pic. Also, there seems to be less facial electric blue markings...again though, this could just be the picture. Ugh, these pics make me want to make my new tank FOWLR
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CrazyLionfish
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I know what you mean, when you see their pics in nature they have a lot more overall blue and mine has not nearly as much. I'll try to take a better recent pic so it's easier to tell.
Oh ya and just some info about my queen angel. I got her (lol just gonna say her because its a "queen") 2 years ago when she was about.. 3.5 inches juvenile and she is now about 7 inches. She'll eat ANYTHING nori, silversides, krill, mysis, plankton, pellets, flakes, only thing she won't eat is frozen formula 1 and 2 and sponge formula. I used to only feed them pellets, but within the last 6 month I have been feeding frozen hikari mysis everyday, either formula 2 pellets or spectrum large fish formula pellets every other day, and nori every day on a clip. I feed plankton, krill, squid, cyclopleeze sometimes. I have noticed a drastic increase in health in all my fish as well as drastic growth.
Oh ya and just some info about my queen angel. I got her (lol just gonna say her because its a "queen") 2 years ago when she was about.. 3.5 inches juvenile and she is now about 7 inches. She'll eat ANYTHING nori, silversides, krill, mysis, plankton, pellets, flakes, only thing she won't eat is frozen formula 1 and 2 and sponge formula. I used to only feed them pellets, but within the last 6 month I have been feeding frozen hikari mysis everyday, either formula 2 pellets or spectrum large fish formula pellets every other day, and nori every day on a clip. I feed plankton, krill, squid, cyclopleeze sometimes. I have noticed a drastic increase in health in all my fish as well as drastic growth.
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