After two weeks of strictly mussels, I skipped a day of feeding in hopes that it would get hungry enough to eat something else. The next day I added a mix of flake food and frozen brine shrimp and the fish ate both. It eats a little of everything now but it still seems to prefer the mussels. I'm hoping that in a few more weeks I'll be able to start acclimating it to the display.
Never actually saw Regal eating zoas, BUT they all disappeared after the Regal and a filefish were added! I recently stated adding some new Zoa colonies and they haven't been touched... Time will tell!
Never actually saw Regal eating zoas, BUT they all disappeared after the Regal and a filefish were added! I recently stated adding some new Zoa colonies and they haven't been touched... Time will tell!
I also had a filefish in the past and he eat all my zoas. Toke it right away after that.
The regal angel was one of the fish that got me into this hobby and now that I have a mature system I think it's time. Hope my lfs store train one to pellet eating
Never actually saw Regal eating zoas, BUT they all disappeared after the Regal and a filefish were added! I recently stated adding some new Zoa colonies and they haven't been touched... Time will tell!
So I picked up a Red Sea Regal Angel from my LFS on monday 12/23. He was a special order so I had not observed him at all and shortly discovered he came with Flukes. After trying coppersafe I got better advice to do Prazi so I did that yesterday 12/26 and the Flukes seem to be gone. His appetite has grown daily and he is getting more and more bold each day as well. Eating PE mysis frozen brine and formula 2 gonna get some pellets and try those also. Hope the pic shows up but my tapatalk hasnt been working
The Pyg has become a hog! He has come thru the Prazi with flying colors, literally his colors have gotten much brighter. His appetite is never ending, not that it was bad before. He prefers brine to PE Mysis although he likes small bites so if i cut up the mysis he likes it better also likes formula 2.
Just picked up a beautiful Quality Marine 4 inch long grey chested regal today from my LFS. Arrived on 12/20, and has been freshwater dipped multiple times, as well as treated with cupramine and prazi. Asked to see it eat and it wouldn't touch mysis. Employee threw in some NLS thera A and it went to town. Acclimated to my display (which I felt I should take a chance with this fish). Within 10 minutes, the regal was out and about and grazing with all 4 of my dwarf angels and my 3 butterflies on some frozen clams on the half shell and NLS pellets.
2 weeks and he is doing great, I only did one round of prazi so far and he seems fine. I am trying to find a small Goldflake and will be dosing after I get one. Overall I think he is well past the healthy hump since he eats everything i put in the tank.
I had a Red Sea regal that was a model citizen for 4 years. I introduced an Asfur to solve a plague of majanos and he apparently taught the regal to eat zoos and I could never keep them again, even after the Asfur moved on. At least the Asfur did clear my tanks of the majano problem.
Here's an updated pic of mine, it's doing well and fat. It eats everything, including flakes, frozen mysis/Rod's/brine, and springer's mixed algae flakes.
Here's an updated pic of mine, it's doing well and fat. It eats everything, including flakes, frozen mysis/Rod's/brine, and springer's mixed algae flakes.
i received a DD red sea orange belly misbar regal about five days ago. i have it in qt by itself. i have been looking for a small-medium size to best try to acclimate to eating nicely prepared foods. then i saw one come on dd and it was an adult (around 6") and was according to their description "eating frozen PE mysis and enriched frozen brine shrimp very well". i have always had great luck with kevin's dd livestock and jumped at the chance to have a larger regal, especially a misbar (which i find intriguing), that is eating prepared frozen already even if i would have to retrain it.
i've offered all the typical fair (mussels, clams, frozen mysis, live brine, blackwormes, seaweed, sponges on rock, macros, etc) without any luck. i wasn't too pessimistic as it's an adult and arrived very healthy looking and very thick (with enough fat reserves to last a couple weeks at least of not eating) and i know these regals take time at times to get eating even if they were previously which i guess is the case.
my concern is that i woke up this morning and he is swimming upside down, vertical, and moving all over the tank seemingly without control of his direction. i'm guessing some type of swim bladder issue perhaps due to decompression or possible constipation. i know they are from not so deep waters so wasn't sure about the decompression but i thought a possibility.
today is the first day i notice this behavior and am obviously concerned for his well being.
all water quality parameters are in-line. ammonia and nitrite of qt tank is at 0. temperature is at 74°. i have not treated him with anything as i like my livestock to de-stress and get comfortable and eating first before i start prazi or any other prophylactic treatment unless there is an obvious symptom or issue requiring immediate attention.
i called liveaquaria and they told me to feed it defrosted peas cut into quarters. i told them he's not eating but they assured me that at some point he will get hungry and he will eat the pea(s) and it will help or resolve the slim badder issue. when further questions were asked they did not seem to have any answers nor could they explain why the pea would help. i imagine it's the fiber and supposed to aide with constipation but not sure.
do you have any other tips or advice? anyone dealt with this before?
he's such a gorgeous fish and i would hate for my first regal in qt to be a loss.
thank you in advance for any assistance you folks can provide!
The pea thing is the only suggestion I'd have, and of course if the fish isn't eating that doesn't do much good. Hope he turns around for you... Keep us updated
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