Regal Angel Primer

[szwab]

What size is the you Display. The 5-10 gallon water changes are not doing much if your tank is of significant size. If you can soak the food in prazi and it'll eat it that is a good way to administer it as well. Have you tested your water recently? What are the parameters? Other than the head shake is it looking healthy? Nice and fat or thin?

 

[Tracey2]

He is about 2.5 inches and fat, my DT is 180 so I am changing about 50g a week. Water reads Amonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 0, Phos. below .25 almost undectable, Calcium 400. I just switched kh to a seachem test and its reading 2, not sure what that means, I used ot use and api kit and it was about 9, I think my kh is reading a little low now with the seachem test kit. I will try to soak the food in prazi, not sure he is eating now though. I just cant believe it he looked so healthy and was eating great until I turned my skimmer back on and did a 10g water change which couldn't have changed the water perimeters. I think its gill flukes.

 

[szwab]

How long was the skimmer off and was there water in it that may have become stagnant then pumped back into the display?

By doing the small water changes yes you are changing 50 gallons per week but the effect they are having is reduced significantly when you look at the percentage of old water bing pulled out to new being put in. For example a 50 gallon water change on a 180 is approx a 30% water change where as a 5 gallon water change is roughly 5% with each additional change you are also removing the new water from the previous changes which reduces the total amount of old water changed.

What's your specfic gravity, temp and ph at and is the ph stable or do you have swings throughout the day?

 

[szwab]

If you believe it's gill flukes you may want to try a fresh water dip. that would be a quick fix. I dipped my regal when I got it. t's scary to do but effective if done properly.

 

[Tracey2]

Thanks for your help, I never thought of the skimmer having stagnant water, it was off for 3 days. I know what you are saying about my water changes but my last regal died right after a water change so I have been a bit nervous about changing more than 10g at a time, I did think this would be a temporary thing just until she was really settled in and then I would go back to 10-20% a week. Salinity is 1.025, ph 8.2, temp is 79, my ph might fluctuate a little, I do have a light over my sump at night.

Today I dosed again with prazipro and shut off the skimmer and tonight she came out of hiding so maybe I am just not treating her long enough, if she has flukes how long does it take for the prazipro to get rid of them? She seems to improve within a day of dosing prazipro. I will freshwater dip as a last resort. I also soaked mysis and flakes in prazi but I'm not sure if she ate any or not.

 

[Creetin]

Good luck! Its scary to not know for sure whats going on with them. Freshwater dips are good treatments, I use malichite green/methylene blue dips on all new fish.

 

[theisdept]

I've seen fresh garlic squeezed through a press boost appetite and immunity quite a bit.

 

[Finsky]

I have had an Indo-Pacific Regal about 3 1/2" for one year and three months. It devoured my mushroom coral drilling down from the top center like eating cake. It ate my $35 zoanthids I added as an experiment like candy. It does not touch my Six Aussie Lobed Brain corals, seven goinioporas, one alveopora, two red rose bubble tip anemones, and toxic palythoa polyp rocks.

 

[szwab]

Have a pic by chance?

At least you know what you can feed it if needed

Wish mine would eat mushrooms. I have some that are out of control.

 

[Finsky]

Indo-Pacific Angel

Indo-Pacific Angel

Here it is!

 

[szwab]

lol
In my tank thos palys would be history

 

[vpower]

Nice pictures of probably one of the nicest fish!
Has anyone tried 2 pygoplites in the same tank? Any things to look out for?
I`m most likely going to try 2 of them in jan/feb.

 

[szwab]

I have two of regals in mine along with a flameback. No issues and it's been almost a year with them all together. In my case by chance the largest of the 3 was added last.

 

[vpower]

I have two of regals in mine along with a flameback. No issues and it's been almost a year with them all together. In my case by chance the largest of the 3 was added last.

Sounds good Do you know if its possible to see which is male and female?

 

[Outerbank]

Feeding,

Mine is one month old. I still have it in the QT. It seems to really like PE mysis, especially the tail part. I thaw the PE mysis, then cut off the meaty tail, cut the tail part in half, and feed this part. It consumes the tail pieces right away. It often ignores the legs and heads of the PE mysis.

 

[Finsky]

PE Mysis

PE Mysis

What is "PE" mysis?

 

[Nemo Niblets]

http://www.mysis.com/

 

[davelin315]

What is "PE" mysis?

Piscine Energetics.

They are freshwater mysis that are frozen whole and have the heads intact for the most part so the fish can see the eyes and this can trigger a feeding response. They are great as far as feeding is concerned, but I always wonder how they can be so good for fish if they're a freshwater shrimp, versus mysids which are saltwater (or at least that's my understanding).

 

[maddog2002]

Last weekend, I bought a red sea regal which already eat blood worms in store. After hours she was put in my tank, She start to eat blood worms! Today she start to eat Formula two small Pellet!

 

[Finsky]

Good sign eating pellets! Also, the blood worms. It sounds like it would eat a various diet of flake, freeze dried, frozen, fresh seafood.