Regal Angel Primer

I'd also like to add she eats various sea squirts I have growing in the tank and likes to take the odd nibble on pulsing Xenia. I'd remove those Xenia weeds if my Regal didn't like eating them. The sea squirts have not been totally consumed though. The Regal seems to know enough not to pick the whole colony clean and this gives them a chance to re-grow before being eaten again.

mmmmmsushi, she's about 4.5" long. The first few times I put Cyclopeze in the tank she ignored it. She observed the other fish going crazy for it and decided to try it. Now she eats it without hesitation.
 
I QT'd mine for only 3 days and treated it with copper. Then I read how copper can interfere with a Regals ability to taste food and the last thing I wanted to do was have her stop eating. The fish had been the solitary occupant in a tank for 6 weeks in a before I got it in a tank by itself. So I thought I would take a chance adding it to my tank. I'm glad I did becuase she immediately took to grazing on my live rock and sponges.

mmmmsushi, what are these "black worms" are they a marine organism? If so where do you get them?
 
My Regal was in a display tank at my LFS, and she was showing signs of ich. They put her in a medicated (non-copper) tank in the back for over a week before I took her home. The most amazing thing is she isn't eating the sponges in my tank.

Black worms are not a marine organism. In fact they only live for about 30 seconds in the tank. But that is usually more than enough time for everyone in the tank to go completly crazy over them. As far as nutrition goes; I'm not sure. I know someone who solely feeds blackworms. I'm not sure yet so I still feed lots of other things as well. This guy actually orders them and I split it with him. They come from Aquaticfoods.com.
 
The fish store held mine for about two weeks before I brought it home.... The first one I got a day or two after the fish store got it, and it went straight to the bottom under rocks and never came out. I think the fish store had the 2nd one calmed down and was feeding it, made the difference.
 
I just found this thread, good one.

I had a regal for two years, 'til I moved too far to take it along. It was apparently the Pacific variety, as it had a light gray belly.

It nearly starved at first, a whole month before it took any added foods, just grazed what it could. Finally, it started eating mysis, about a month after that it would try other foods. By the time I had to give it away, it was well filled out, and an agressive eater. Formula 1, Formula 2, Angel formula, Sea Veggies (red flakes), chopped fish and shrimp, dry flake food.

It was in a 75 gallon reef that also housed a haddon's carpet and saddle clown among other things. The clown kept it away from the anemone.
 
After living with a yellow tang for more than a month my regal has "learned" from observing how to eat Nori from a veggie clip. So far the only type I have tried is the brown Ocean Nutrition type.

So here is a list of frozen foods my regal is now eating:

Cyclopeze
Hikari Mega Marine Angel (I feed this one the most, contains sponges)
Mysis shrimp
Brine shrimp
Nori (brown)

Any other types of food I should be offering?
She was eating freeze dried blood worms at the LFS :rolleye1:
Should I try frozen blood worms? Are they nutritional?
 
mysis and the hikari is enough. That and some nori or dulse. blood worms IME really pollute the tank. For convenience sake, I would work a little on getting 'em to eat a flake. When I'm out of town or in a hurry mine gets the prime reef flake. Seems to really like it actually.
 
Thanks Moonpod. I'll try introducing some OSI marine flake.
What is dulse?
Flake would be good to put in an autofeeder but on the downside most flake food ends up floating and going into the sump.
 
Here is my Regal Angel, I got it on Friday 02/11. So far its taking up prepared food (My own DIY MIX) that I press onto a small piece of rock. Its mowed down one small batch of zoos & gotten a clean from the cleaner shrimp.

It wont take food directly from the water column yet, but as long as its taking the prepared food from the rock I dont mind.

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Its in a 280G.

Dan.
 
regal sadness

regal sadness

i just spent about 1 half of an hour reading these 11 pages and as a whole keeping regal angels is a pretty risky and a likley to turn out bad endeavor. I counted 11 dead fish not including the one caused by the pump failure. i doubt you will find another thread with a 1 death per page ratio unless you look at gonipora.
There is no doubt that this is arguably one of the most beautiful fishes that swims, but This kind of track record has me wondering if it is worth taking this beautiful animal out of it's enviroment just so half the people who own one can watch it die within a year?(that is my guess not a hard fact) don't get me wrong i've killed my share of fish through ignorance and thinking i knew a better way that somehow the experts were missing.I am not hinting that those of you who have tried this are ingnorant . the beginning of the thread looked good. i started reading it because i have always been interested in the angels and this would be the best looking of all(imho).

Maybe there are better foods out there that will make it easier or maybe this pooling of information will improve the odds, i don't know. I hope so because I want one too! i am going to wait until i think i can keep one alive long term.
 
Good luck, there's a lot of grateful, happy, proud, Regal owners. It's a risk only you can decide if you want to take, maybe you want to read it again before you decide and take the good with the bad. We will all be here to support you if you decide to get one.....
 
1reefnotenuf,

I disagree with you here, if no one will ever buy a Morris Idol or a Regal Angel, do you think it will increase their survisor rate in the wild? Even if they are forbiden from importing into the US, do you think the diver will ever think "oh - it's a Regal let me set him free"? No the fate of the fish is decided once it's been collected, it either is going to die in the collection point, or shipped to your LFS. IMO, as long as there are people buying marine fish, these beautiful fish will always be collected, I would rather they ended up at a collector's home and been taken care of.
 
I don't feel one bit guilty about purchasing this fish. I was back in the city I grew up in after going to a funeral and happened to have time to drop in on the local fish store where I spent many $$ years ago to buy some food. I couldn't believe that they had this fish for 6 weeks and were feeding it dried blood worms and nothing else. They had it marked down to $75 from $100 Canadian. I thought about it for a good half hour if I should take the chance on it. I knew about the problems with keeping this fish and I was aware the Indo Pacific species could have been cyanide caught. I thought if I don't buy it someone else who knows nothing about the requirements of this fish is going to end up taking it home in a fish bowl. So I brought it home instead and it's been doing great. It's the center of my attention at feeding time. I make sure she gets fed many times a day and before the other fish.

This would not have been a fish I would have requested to be brought in special order. I just happened to be there when it was. I'm sure it would surely have died if I had not brought it home to a reef full of sponges, zoos, and sea squirts. Speaking of zoos, it's time to get some more.
 
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regals

aquaduck,dchao:
you guys are making me argue a point i wasn't trying to make. as far as supply and demand goes i think you have it backwards.
if no one buys this paticular species there is no market for the fish, they won't be collected because no wholesaler will buy them if they know they can't sell them.
I did not mention anything about their wild population or how it is affected. whatever the small number of fish taken per year can't be much if any impact on this fish.
the only point i was trying to make is it seems wastful(for lack of a better word) for lfs's and online sellers to offer a fish that has a pretty good chance of not surviving long term.
Every book i have read(specifically the conticious marine aquarist) on reef's and reef fishes makes some comment about trying to keep invertabrates and fishes that have bad track records in the ocean until something comes along that makes keeping them possible(or at least gives them a better chance).
when i think i am ready and the current animal husbandry methods are ready, i will be ordering one right away.
it is good to see you guys succeeding.
 
The point I was trying to make is that the these Indo-Pacific divers when they are collecting fish from the reef, either use net of cyanide, are not thinking what fish to collect what fish not to collect. Everything goes into the net, and bought back to the collection point. These divers are paid peanut to collect reef fish, and frankly, they have no ideal which fish will not make it to your home which will make the most profit for the wholesaler.

If everyone stop buying these fish, I don't think they will be left on the reef either. If there is no market in the US, these fish will still be collected and will certainly die at a collection point somewhere in Indonesia, due to the lack of demands. (or be shipped to HongKong and to be packed in a 100G tank with 20 other angels). The choice is yours.
 
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regals

so you are saying collectors don't know what they are collecting? they just go down spray indescriminately and pick up anything that comes out of the reef regardless of its value? collectors are paid salary not by what they collect and not what it is worth?
i don't know much about collecting reef fish as you can probably tell!

I can't imagine a cyanide caught regal, with all the difficulty associated with keeping a heathy one, has any shot at survival.
once again just my opinion i do not have personal experience

on your post you said net of cyanide did you mean net or cyanide?
 
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