Regal Angel Primer

[szwab]

I used whatever clam the grocery store had at the time. Once they got used to it (didn't take long) I'd buy a bag and freeze them. Pull one out a day and open it rince it out and put it in the tank. I'd try feeding another type of food at the same time with the thinking that if enough "accidental" bites happened they would realize other food is good too.

 

[Finsky]

Raw chopped clam meat

Raw chopped clam meat

Any type of raw clam you can get at the grocery store seafood section.

I started with a lb of chopped clam which was probably the typical round shelled white meat clams. The grocery store then told me they could not get any more so I hunted around and found a Top Foods Grocery Store which special ordered one pound packages of raw frozen razor clam from the Quinault Tribe locally.

A seafood store opened about six months ago and I started geting it for $12.99/lb instead of the grocery store's $16.99/lb.

I am finishing up a frozen chunk I have and then I will thaw one of the two one pound packages I have in the freezer and cut them up in 1/2" pieces to feed my five bubble tips.

I then tear up what is left into little bite size pieces and toss them in the tank.

My Regal goes after these with relish and he gets his fill even competing with the Blue Girdled Angel, Powder Blue and Purple Tang, and pair of Cinnamon Clown fish.

 

[ryanrid]

thanks guys appreciate the help.:thumbsup:

 

[szwab]

Mine also ate scallops. Easier to feed as well. I'd freeze and rubberband pieces to a rock. I also felt this helped with water quality since it was less messy.

 

[LemonLemon]

Here's my first yellow belly regal.

in a 183g tank.

eats mysis very aggressively but that's the only thing he eats. have shown interest in pellets not but ready to take it's first bite yet.

 

[szwab]

Nice looking regal! Has it taken an interest in the Nephthea behind it

 

[LemonLemon]

interested in nothing except mysis and liverock lol.

 

[szwab]

Just wait, I'm sure she'll find something she likes. :lol:

 

[LemonLemon]

Just wait, I'm sure she'll find something she likes. :lol:

definitely. granted it's only been in my tank after less than a week

 

[Finsky]

Clean food and mysis shrimp

Clean food and mysis shrimp

My Regal has always had a taste for freeze dried mysis shrimp over the brine shrimp. My Powder Blue loves the brine shrimp over the mysis? I soak my red and green seaweed cut into bite sized pieces and soak along with the freeze dried mysis and brine shrimp in Selcon, Vita-Chem, and Vitamin-C.

I am sure if you put a mixture of foods in you will eventually have him eating some small piece of red/purple seaweed if it is cut up into 1/8" to 1/4" pieces which I do with all my seaweed rather than let large chunks get pulled off a clip and drawn into one of my water pumps.

Of course I have about a half dozen different kinds of frozen food from Hikari etc. like frozen mysis shrimp, brine shrimp, etc.

I cannot think of a less messy food than razor clam and I have looked at the surface of my tank after feeding just about every possible seafood available.

I think razor clam may be difficult and/or expensive to get outside of the Puget Sound area?

 

[blface]

Mine is still thriving & gaining weight. Here's a recent pic I took. It looks like it wants to give me a kiss.:love2:

 

[LukFox]

Love the pics, guys!

As an update, my color changing regal continues to change. Not only does it still have a yellow belly but the more pure yellow coloration in the striping has gained the orange hue my other one has. This means my two regals are now identical. I can only tell them apart at feeding time because the original yellow belly still won't touch mysis... Really an amazing color change, and I wonder if it was induced by being housed with a yellow belly. We'll see if she changes back, but she seems set on looking just like the other one for now.

 

[szwab]

Interesting. I have a gray belly and a yellow like you. But no color changing. (yet)

 

[ryanrid]

i got my regal on saturday, it is about 3inchs, i have fed the following so far but hasnt eaten a thing yet.

spectrum pellets
nori
red seaweed
purple seaweed
julian sprung mixed seawwed flakes
LR with some yellow sponge on it
frozen mysis
frozen brine spirulina
fresh muscle (large whole black muscle in 1/2 the shell)

tonight i have fresh scallop to try any tips or anything else to try? Do you think live brine might be a goer for tomorrow?
this fish is in a QT by itself

Thanks

 

[szwab]

Just be patient try everything and anything. Make sure you keep the water quaity up as well.

 

[pinnatus]

if you can get Rod's food in Australia, give it a try. I have not seen anything refuse it yet...

 

[ryanrid]

what is Rod's food? never heard of it

 

[maxxII]

google rodsreef

Nick

 

[ryanrid]

googled and not avaialble in aus, what makes it different from other foods for the regal to take? also we can not get anything but a garlic mix to soak food in over here.

 

[suta4242]

FWIW I think garlic is over rated. I used Kent garlic extreme on more than one finicky fish it had no effect half the time. In your case a 3" regal will feel more at home with a little fresh LR covered in good invert growth, and can forage from there until you get it used to different foods. You can attach various foods like a partially opened clam etc.. to the rock and the fish will likely investigate. As for live brine, its too early IMO to worry about it eating directly from the water column unless it got used to this at the shop.

good luck!