thanks for the reply. and yes, between his lack of desire to eat and quite frankly the inability to navigate where we wants (he literally just putz'es around the tank upside down and sideways) i doubt he is going to find the skinned defrosted pieces or peas.
it died this morning/late last night, unfortunately. sigh.
thanks for the response - i appreciate it. such a gorgeous regal too. the only upside is that it was dd so they return the money paid without hesitation this morning. feeling down about it today but will be on the hunt for a smaller/small-medium size soon here to try to avoid some of the decompression issues and feeding challenges.
Lots of nice regals still kicking though which is good.
Man, been reading through the thread and its depressing how many people bought regals and just tossed them in the dt and then the fish died from an infections, or disease or couldn't get it to eat.. Almost all of the cases i read about would have been solved with a qt tank from the start
no qt or prophylactic treatment with prazi? these fish need all the help they can get to adapt to our glass boxes. tossing it into one with semi/agreesive tankmates without qt, getting it to eat eagerly, de-worming, etc is asking for trouble. i would really encourage you to to consider other more diligent methods of introducing these fish to your system. i've just lost one to what we think is decompression issue when caught and no matter the reason it doesn't feel good. i do wish you the best of luck with your new regal. the photo looks great and i hope it works out. keep us updated!
