Regal Angel Primer

yeah i woudl say so,

when i pick one out for my tank i will only get it if its eatting with vigor at the LFS! i mean attacking the food!

Nick
 
Angels are increadibly difficule to breed. They need a very tall water column to complete the fertilization of the eggs. I believe the only tanks capable of that are several feet tall.

I'm sure someone else has more information on that.

A pair would be very cool.
 
I have had mine for about 4 months now. He was a great find...the pet shop I got him from had him for several months before I bought him. The owner said no one was interested in him, and gave me a pretty good price just to get it out of his store. It ate everything offered. I took him home, acclimated him, and then introduced him to the tank. It never acted stressed at all...it almost immediately began swimming around and checking out the tank. He has been the perfect inhabitant up to now. He eats everything offered, but I make my own food and feed that most of the time. He is in with oscellaris clowns, a pink square anthias, a regal tang, 2 orange shoulder tangs, and a sixline wrasse. They all get along wonderfully. The tank is a 200 gallon measuring 72"X30"X21".

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Purple Haze said:
Anyone have a pair in their tank?

Any hobbyist had sucess breeding them?
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The only large angel that I've heard of being successfully bred are the the P. Maculosus. Apparently in Taiwan or something they are breeding them in large ponds. It's hit and miss though apparently and you hear different things about the hardiness.
 
pikey: Thats a cool pictures and he must love that 200G...well maybe not compared to the ocean but he can't hate it thats for sure.

This fish is going to be my reasoning for setting up a 120G SPS :)
 
Purple Haze said:
Anyone have a pair in their tank?

Any hobbyist had sucess breeding them?
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Not only does this guy have a pair in his 350 gallon (33" deep), but they are spawning regularly and he has video of it... Unfortunately raising the young is obviously a different story...

This guy is doing something right, as he also has a pair of flames and bicolors, and even purple tangs that have spawned... Instances like these show it's only a matter of time before more large angels are offered captive bred.

Check out his sight with the videos here (regal spawning link)

Copps
 
Well this thread has definetly brought me hope of keeping a Regal again. I am lucky enough to work at my LFS and have access to all the wholesalers in Miami (as well as wholesale prices hehe) so i can basically go down there and take my pick. I picked out a Regal this past Aug. and introduced him into my 210. I enticed him to eat by putting clips of food through out the tank, and he seemed to be eating macroalgae and sponge formula. Unforunatly we all know what happend then. The hurricanes hit here in Florida and i lost all my tanks. Well 5 months later i have them up and running again and im just about ready to get another Regal. Thanks for all the great info in this thread guys! I'll be sure and post pics once i get him.
 
Day #4
Still did not eat, tried to feed seaweed, squid and clam on the half shell. However the fish is still fat as a pig so I'm not too worried yet.
 
Morning Day #5

Cut and oyster in 1/2 and attached it to an alge clip in the tank when I got up today....about 30 minutes later the regal was out and picking at it, not attacking it but picking at it, I think this is the first of many good things to come hopefully.

I put this food in before the lights kicked on so I think he feels more comforatable w/ the lights off for right now. On my way to Marsh to get a clam and another oyster. My plan is to keep him healthy w/ these foods and slowly try to get him to take to other things.
- Nathan
 
Whats the minimal tank size for a reagal to do well in? The largest tank I have at the moment is a 75..with a large water capacity two sumps and a hang on the back fuge with a 57 gallon clam tank plumbed into the display...water quality is super...Just wondering if a 75 is to small swiming area for 2 tangs and a regal...or if the regal would do ok in the clam tank, its 35 x 30 x 13.....and the only way I can get a regal is by specal order or order one online so its a risk no matter what....
 
Good maybe he will start eating soon, mine won't eat any dried food, I think I will get a clam and oyster to see if he will eat that also. I just got power back on and still don't have high speed internet just dial up, we had 1 1/2" of ice. Man what a mess.
 
malegolf: Yeah I was worrying alittle w/ the weather also, we only got about 1/2 inch up in Lafayette but I was sweating bullets.
I'm going to crack open another fresh clam or oyster tomarrow marning and hope for similar results.

As for the tank size for a regal I would say that it depends on how large the fish is....I'm only planning on having a maximum of two fish total in my tank and being an SPS system the water quality and flow/lighting is similar to what a regal will experiance in the ocean.

P.S. My regal was actually ripping off small peices and thrashing them back and forth in the water today :cool:
 
If I purchase a regal it will have to be a site unseen online purchase, and I would want a juvie....a tank upgrade is in the works within the next year and a half to two years...and how do a tangs respond to regals or a juvi imperator?
 
depends. Sometimes the tangs are really aggressive, sometimes they ignore 'em. Kinda individual. The acanthurus are worse than say nasos or the bristle tooths. But that's a generality.
 
Can anyone recomend an online sorce for ordering a regal..one thats already in good health and eating? PM me the response would hate for this thread to be moved to the vender forum....
 
I am NOT a vendor/retailer/middleman etc....so this is an independent opinion. The fish at PacAquaFarms are generally in pretty good shape. I ASSUME that this is where reefermadness gets their fish from. so I might give them a call. Otherwise TheMarineCenter has a reasonable reputation. I have no experience with justrarefish, but I've heard good things.
 
Additionally, this thread sort of makes me vaguely uncomfortable. There are a lot of success stories here, but the generality is still that the vast majority of Regals that are collected are probably doomed...there is still no "magic equation" for success. I know it sounds vaguely hippocritical from someone who has one, but it's just food for thought.
 
I got mine from PA, since I only live 55 miles from them. Jeremy kept if for me a couple weeks after he got it and got it to eat, I feel that's the difference between the 1st one I got and this one. The 1st one I picked up the next day after PA got it and I think that was to much stress for it, this one will now come to the top when I feed him. He will also come to the front of the tank when I walk up to the tank, I just wish he would eat something other than Mysis. I guess that's what he's going eat, I sure would like to feed some seaweed or flake that he would eat......
 
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