Regal Angel Primer

Beautiful pics.

Just to update, I lost one of my three waiting for my new tank to be built Two are still in their holding tank waiting for the new tank to cycle, they are tough.
 
My regal has been in the QT for 5 days with live rocks. It's a 40g breeder. During this tank he has picked at rocks and picked at clams in half shell. Maybe even ate some but it would be very little anyway. Also taking an interest in pellets but not eating. He seems to be in good shape with no visible disease and moving about.

My question is should I place him in the display tank now where he can have more live rocks to graze on. I have read stories that Regals graze survive on grazing for a month before start eating.
 
Since he's already in QT I would leave him. Mine took 3 weeks of clams on the half shell and just like yours it picked lightly in the beginning but eventually got more aggressive with it. Also try fresh mussels.

I was able to buy frozen clam strips which I would rubber band to a clam shell and he ate that too if buying fresh clams gets to be a hassle.

After 3 weeks mine nibbled on mysis and sea veggies and now eats them daily.

horseplay said:
My regal has been in the QT for 5 days with live rocks. It's a 40g breeder. During this tank he has picked at rocks and picked at clams in half shell. Maybe even ate some but it would be very little anyway. Also taking an interest in pellets but not eating. He seems to be in good shape with no visible disease and moving about.

My question is should I place him in the display tank now where he can have more live rocks to graze on. I have read stories that Regals graze survive on grazing for a month before start eating.
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I think we can change the name of this thread to:
Minh's fish show off :)

Picture of my Regal angel this AM with my cell phone:

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I bought a 6inch red sea regal a month and 1/2 ago after seeing him available at a LFS. It had been at the shop for 2 weeks but they hadn't seen it eat but it was in a tank with a bunch of other tangs and it was just hiding up in the corner behind a pipe and only when the tangs where up the other end of the tank it would come out and pick at the silicon and other bits on the floor of the tank, and after watching it for nearly 30mins I decided it was worth the risk.
Took it home and into the QT tank and didn't see it eat for the first 3-4days but I was pretty sure it was picking at the nori on a clip when it though no one was watching. I was absolutely stoked when on the 4th day it started not only picking at frozen Mysis but chasing it down and eating out of the water column :bounce2: For the next few weeks in the qt tank it gradually took most different types of frozen foods but wouldn't even look at flake or pellets. After the qt period and a few doses of Prazi it went into my display tank - 5x2x2 (150gal) sps tank and was loving the extra space and live rock to pick at.
It continued eating frozen foods for the next few weeks then for whatever reason one day decided it wanted to eat both pellets and flake foods with gusto :dance: now it gets in amongst the anthias and wrasse at feeding time and will eat pieces of nori out of my hand.
I wanted a show piece fish in my tank that fish and non fish people walk in and see and go WOW and that is definitely what I got

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Cheers
James
 
Anyone running their Regal thru Chloroquine phosphate or any QTing for that matter? I ask because I killed my Red Sea Regal after two days with CP and was wondering if anyone else has successfully treated with it or not. Regals seem to be very difficult to QT at all let alone with meds
 
FW Dip for up to 20 minutes (one I had to pull out at 10, the other I think could of gone a half of a day) and Prazi Pro. I have never used copper except Tangs that had ich, all went under some kind of QT for 3 to 4 weeks. Tough to hear about your Regal not making it
 
I've had my regal under CP for the past 7 days with no issues. The tough part is still getting him to eat something other than fresh clams only. I have angelixir on the way and will continue to tempt the beast. Next up, scallops, squid, octopus, and gulf shrimp!
 
After reading a lot on here and elsewhere, I opted not to QT my regal (blue belly, so not Red Sea). All that was in the tank were some clowns, pj's, and a few gobies. Fed him mussels which I started packing with mushed up NLS pellets, mysis and garlic extract. He took to the mussels right away, going for frozen mysis after the 3rd day, pellets on 6th, and flake foods after he saw the clowns making a dash for them (10 day mark?). Nori is the only thing he wont touch.

Every fish from here on out will be in QT before going into the DT, though.
 
Just to mention, my entire fish population has been in a 100 gallon tub with CP for the past month with no issues. I have 4 tangs in there, cleaner wrasse, leopard wrasse, chromis, 2 fairy wrasses, flame angel, 2 clowns, banghai cardinal, and a dartfish.

It seems pretty mild to me on the fishes but I do believe it does lower their immune system as in have to keep an eye out for bacterial infections. When used as a malaria drug in humans, a side effect is immune system suppression so I'd imagine the same in fish.
 
First Regal in a While ....

First Regal in a While ....

Haven't kept a Regal in a while ... not since rehoming my last 'zooanthid destroyer'. Local reefer had this one available due to similar issues, so couldn't resist. Have had a number of these fish over the years, though never one this young (with the spot). It's in my FOWLR (aka grow out tank) for now. Hard to get a good picture though ....




Eating well .... nori, the small ocean plankton and Mysis. It's about 2" long.
 
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Ca1ore that is a cute fish, 2" to 3" are great sizes for Regals. When my juvy came in, it was eating the next day.
 
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