Regal Angel Primer
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Guys,
What's the difference with the grayish bottom face, and pure yellow?? Is hat the Pacific compared to Red Sea, or Indian Ocean specimens??
What's the difference with the grayish bottom face, and pure yellow?? Is hat the Pacific compared to Red Sea, or Indian Ocean specimens??
I had my previous Red Sea Regal for over 5 years. I purchased him in early April 2001 and I lost him in August 2006 to a disease outbreak that killed all my fish. But for the disease outbreak, I see no reason why he wouldn't have been still going strong today. This was due to my own carelessness of failing to quarantine some new anthias. I now quarantine every new fish without exception.
Here is my new red Sea Angel guys.... he was in Qt at my LFS for 2 weeks... he is picking at rocks and eating Mysid....
I use a Nikon DSLR 40DX. It takes amazing pictures, and is super fast. I haven't even hit the tip of the iceberg with all its features.
GUYS,
Fish has been in my tank since 12:00pm Friday... He hides about half the time, the casually swims around certain parts of the tank with a curious nature the other half. When I feed, he doesn't come out and eat, but I have seen him nip on some rocks..... This sound like a normal acclimation... Not one of my fish is harassing him.
Fish has been in my tank since 12:00pm Friday... He hides about half the time, the casually swims around certain parts of the tank with a curious nature the other half. When I feed, he doesn't come out and eat, but I have seen him nip on some rocks..... This sound like a normal acclimation... Not one of my fish is harassing him.
bradleyj
Reefkeeping Mag Staff
That sounds right. It took mine about 5 days before it finally started to eat, and he was severely harrassed by my purple tang. I thought I was going to lose him, but he made it thru and now is thriving. Once he feels more at home and sees the other fish eating, he will join in.
This sounds like normal acclimation to me. My Red Sea Regal took 2 months before it accepted prepared foods. My current Indo Pacific specimen took 4 months before he accepted prepared foods and ate out of the water column. If your Regal is grazing on sponge on your live rock and is taking some mysis, you should be OK. Additionally, try some Nori on a clip. It worked for both of my Regals. It allows them to graze but also gets them used to prepared foods. They may be hesitant at first but eventually hunger overcomes their shyness. Once I saw my Regal going after torn pieces of Nori in the water column, I knew he would begin to accept other types of prepared foods. I would also clip a half of cube of Formula 2 with the Nori. HTH. Good luck.
Good morning guys. My regal was out and about this morning, and picking at some rocks, still didnt eat the meaty foods. One of the rocks he was picking at had a nice yellow sponge on it.
Has anyone had success keeping one with a Coral Beauty or other pygmys? I'd love to have one at some point, but want to make sure its tank mates will let it acclimate to its new home with constant harasment.
Will one do well in a 90gal? I presently have a 90gal that I am considering re-doing, or I may wait until I put together my 220. Not sure yet.
Will one do well in a 90gal? I presently have a 90gal that I am considering re-doing, or I may wait until I put together my 220. Not sure yet.
Scuba Dog
New member
I have my regal with a flame angel, I haven't noticed any problems at all. My regal aclamated the same as the above posts...firs would pic at the live rock for sponge, then started on the nori clips...then would eat clam on the half shell(her favorite) then would start to nibble on frozen mysis and brine some.
Scuba Dog, and john37, thanks for the input, its good to hear, sounds like they would be fine together then.
I would like to put together a 220 as an exotics tank at some point in the future and I think the Regal would qualify for that.
Do you think it would be better to go ahead and put one in a 90 and then transfer it to the 220 or just wait and put it in the 220? This is not a rush project and I'm not looking to just add more fish to my 90. I'm just wondering if it would make more sense to acclimate it once in 220 or have to do it again when moving it from the 90 to the 220.
I would like to put together a 220 as an exotics tank at some point in the future and I think the Regal would qualify for that.
Do you think it would be better to go ahead and put one in a 90 and then transfer it to the 220 or just wait and put it in the 220? This is not a rush project and I'm not looking to just add more fish to my 90. I'm just wondering if it would make more sense to acclimate it once in 220 or have to do it again when moving it from the 90 to the 220.
