Regal Angel Primer

[ThRoewer]

Your Regals and Flames don't bother your corals?

The regals nip on one green favia, but don't do real damage to it. It's a $10 coral and it's still growing despite the nipping. I think they are going for the slime and not for the tissue (the Philippine regal in who's tank this coral was before took more serious bites out of it and exposed some skeleton, but that healed quickly). The Tubastrea, Blastomussa and Acanthastrea I have in there are not or only minimally bothered.

They sometimes pick on certain Acropora, though they don't target the corals, but rather some food it caught or algae growing on damaged parts.

The most destructive thing the smaller of pair one does is nipping on my sea stars - 2 of them show already some damage. The Fromia milleporella looks the worst. Next time I see it I may have to move it to another tank in the system.

In general I feel they are more interested in all kinds of Algae than corals. They were even eating the growth tips of Halimeda calcareous algae when I had them in the 42 gallon tank.

 

[Salty150]

OK...

This will be my first time with corals, so should be interesting.

 

[blaujess]

My red sea Regal sorry for poor pic

 

[alton]

Congrats

 

[carrots]

Many times I had offered my Regal frozen clam chunks with no luck. Tried clam on the half shell in the past but found the chunks that were torn away were always too big and stingy for my 3" Regal to eat. Thanks to this site, I learned to use a razor blade on the frozen half shell clam to make bite size chunks before dropping the shell into the tank. The Regal tore into it like there was no tomorrow. It's hard to believe , but I was scared she was eating too much. Belly looked like it was going to burst. Just wanted to share and thank all that have contributed to this thread.

 

[Salty150]

Many times I had offered my Regal frozen clam chunks with no luck. Tried clam on the half shell in the past but found the chunks that were torn away were always too big and stingy for my 3" Regal to eat. Thanks to this site, I learned to use a razor blade on the frozen half shell clam to make bite size chunks before dropping the shell into the tank. The Regal tore into it like there was no tomorrow. It's hard to believe , but I was scared she was eating too much. Belly looked like it was going to burst. Just wanted to share and thank all that have contributed to this thread.

So you bought frozen clams - and before you put the half clam in the tank you could make several cuts (while still frozen) in the clam and then just dropped the frozen clam into the tank?

 

[carrots]

It is too difficult to slice up clam meat that isn't frozen. Hikari sells clam on the half shell. Putting a few slices into the meat and dropping the shell with the sliced up meat still stuck on the shell into the tank. The smaller angels are able to tear off bite size pieces that they can swallow. Before using this technique the Regal would rip out the meat but because it was always too large & stringy she couldn't swallow it.

 

[alton]

If you want to drop some cash NYAquatics has RS juveniles for $349 plus shipping

 

[blaujess]

Its strange but mine only eat pellets like a pig and don t care about anything else

 

[alton]

Its strange but mine only eat pellets like a pig and don t care about anything else

I had a Chrysurus Angel that did the same thing, he went for three weeks without eating. I tried everything and it wasn't till I tried pellets did he start eating. I had him over a year before selling him and he never ate anything but pellets, it is hard to explain?

 

[Salty150]

Its strange but mine only eat pellets like a pig and don t care about anything else

Nice "problem" to have!

 

[OrionN]

Mine just eat a lot of Nori and some flakes. He stop eating Mysis. He does eat fresh oysters

 

[OrionN]

I was looking at the dates of some pictures. I had my first Regal angel since 6/2014. He eat well and is fat. He still have his false eye spots when I got him, now he is about 1/2 inch large than the largest Flame angel. They don't grow very fast (my tank is a 320 gal tank) at least in my tank.

 

[alton]

This was 10/2012

This is last week (the top one)

The bottom one is my original and from my avatar which was 2012. Great fish if you want slow growers

 

[Dmorty217]

Thinking about getting a Red Sea Juv, anyone done this? How did it go? I typically don't get fish under the 2" mark since they need the extra attention. Great pictures Alton

 

[alton]

In October of 2012 Michael at NYAquatic got in what he described as a misbar 2" juvenile redsea. I had store credit with him so I went for it. I have never had good luck with the babies, so I stay away from them. The attachment is the picture Michael sent and she has been great ever since

 

[OrionN]

Alton,
Was he actually a misbar or just being young and the stripe not developed yet?
Mine was sorta misbared but grew in and no longer misbared.

 

[Dmorty217]

In October of 2012 Michael at NYAquatic got in what he described as a misbar 2" juvenile redsea. I had store credit with him so I went for it. I have never had good luck with the babies, so I stay away from them. The attachment is the picture Michael sent and she has been great ever since

I have got the tiny ones before and it didn't go well at all. sounds like 2" or larger is the best bet

 

[ThRoewer]

If you want to drop some cash NYAquatics has RS juveniles for $349 plus shipping

I'm quite happy with the Sumatra juveniles for just $120.

Though #3 worries me right now. He lost a lot of weight while in the HT despite decent feeding and the fish eating well.
Since I transferred him back to the 42 gallon tank he doesn't eat too well. I guess he needs some time to adjust to the new surrounding. I just hope he wasn't caught with cyanide.

#1 is eating well now and gaining weight. The small ones, #2 & #4 are the best eaters and quite fat.

 

[ThRoewer]

Saw some nice Sumatra Regal Angels today:

~4 inch Sumatra Regal

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~5.5 inch Sumatra Regal

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Some other fish they had.

A pair of Chaetodon octofasciatus:

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And this looks like a juvenile Ppompano (gets really big)

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