Regal Angel Primer
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diverdan814
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I had a Cheveron Tang that was very peaceful also. Colorful friendly fish that ate algae too.
My Regal is ok he is eating flakes, picking nory (not eating realy i think just picking) i tried fozen food, live brine, pelets, nory, red algae. But he just like the flakes for now (and itÃ"šÃ‚´s a lot for me). I think let he in the sump for 3 - 4 weeks to let he get use to feed and to think wath to with the purple tang and the desjardinni. I have see many pictures were regal share tanck with tangsso iÃ"šÃ‚´m plannin to remove the tangs to the sump and the regal to the main for a time and hope tha they could tolerate each others, wathÃ"šÃ‚´s the probavility of this to work?? any other sugestions?.
LargeAngels
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Rook: Some regals are actually pretty agressive once they have aclimated and established their territory. Mine bullies around a very fat, and larger than the regal, blueface angel. Naso's are pretty melow, but too small for a 90.
LargeAngels said:
Yeah, my Regal is getting pretty agressive, especially while eating. I thought the maroons would cause a problem, but it hasn't. I just don't want to add a Regal Tang or PBT and have it eventually bully the Regal Angel.
And yes, I will definately quaranteen the tang for a minimum of a month to ensure that no disease is present. It will likely be at least a month or longer before I actually get a tang, if I decide to.
pecan2phat
Active member
Andraska said:
That is a Paracentropyge Boyeli. (aka Peppermint dwarf angel) They are very rare and hardly ever collected for the trade. When they do surface, the price tag can be over $4k.
At that price, I wouldn't know if I'd be concerned if it was reef safe or not!
Only have seen them in books. I believe that they are a deep water species from the Cook Islands.
HOZERTHEBONEFISH
Member
Rao
Did you try mysis? How about adding some garlic supplement(Kent) to entice yours to eat.
I would switch your regal with the tangs. Put the regal into the main system while the tangs wait(probably a while) in the sump. When the regal eats aggressively, then I would put the tangs one by one in the tank
Best of luck
Henry
Did you try mysis? How about adding some garlic supplement(Kent) to entice yours to eat.
I would switch your regal with the tangs. Put the regal into the main system while the tangs wait(probably a while) in the sump. When the regal eats aggressively, then I would put the tangs one by one in the tank
Best of luck
Henry
HOZERTHEBONEFISH,
He donÃ"šÃ‚´t have mysis here, i have try frozen formula tow, a DIY frozen food, and brine (both live and death), for now i think he is getting use that iÃ"šÃ‚´m the guy with the food, he just come to the front of the sump wen i aproach and take the food almost from my hand, i feed he spectrum pelets today and he eated like a mad, i will feed he just spectrum and flakes (with garlic and selcom / vita chem) for now, and waith few days to if get more used to fed diferent stufs, i donÃ"šÃ‚´t want to polute the tank with food he well not eat, nex week maybe i put the frozen again and put no pellets or flakes to if he take the frozen. For now iÃ"šÃ‚´m very hapy with my regal and i think thath this post is for great help for every budy ho want to keep this beautys.
With the sex of my regal i have no point of compration but i think the spines in hes gils are short so he maybe her. I let you some pictures from her.
and her future home
Thanks every body
He donÃ"šÃ‚´t have mysis here, i have try frozen formula tow, a DIY frozen food, and brine (both live and death), for now i think he is getting use that iÃ"šÃ‚´m the guy with the food, he just come to the front of the sump wen i aproach and take the food almost from my hand, i feed he spectrum pelets today and he eated like a mad, i will feed he just spectrum and flakes (with garlic and selcom / vita chem) for now, and waith few days to if get more used to fed diferent stufs, i donÃ"šÃ‚´t want to polute the tank with food he well not eat, nex week maybe i put the frozen again and put no pellets or flakes to if he take the frozen. For now iÃ"šÃ‚´m very hapy with my regal and i think thath this post is for great help for every budy ho want to keep this beautys.
With the sex of my regal i have no point of compration but i think the spines in hes gils are short so he maybe her. I let you some pictures from her.
and her future home
Thanks every body
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Steve Atkins
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A most interesting and useful thread.
Having just put one in my mostly SPS reef (1500L/400USG capacity), last Saturday morning, I have become an avid consumer of everything about Regal angels, even more so than before it actually arrived. Mine apparently comes from Indonesia. It has a yellow chest, appears to be a male and is 12cm long ââ"šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ basically a young adult.
It spent 3 weeks in quarantine, sharing a tank with yellow tangs and some damsels, before I got it, and was reportedly an enthusiastic consumer of pretty much everything it was offered. It certainly looks like it has been enjoying a good supply of food. One of those yellow tangs has also gone into my reef and I have seen the two hanging out together when they were still pretty shy and spent most of their time behind the rocks. They both started swimming freely round the tank some time yesterday (Thursday).
A large damsel and a purple tang have given them the most trouble but the damsel was not interested in pursuing them under the reef and the purple tang, which seemed most annoyed at the yellow tang, seems quite happy now. The damsel, which is the same size as the Regal, is now not interested in it and only chases the, smaller, yellow tang. Luckily, my very large blue tang (3 x the size of Regal) has carried on mostly ignoring all other fish, as per usual and as I had hoped it would.
Although this tank is only 2 months old, the reef and fish came from a similar sized tank I had been running for over 10 years. Since I expect the angel to spend quite a bit of time thinning out the sponge/whatever population under the reef I have not really bothered to try to feed it yet and it has been clearly quite happy picking round the rocks, something it started within an hour of arrival. Now that it is out and about I will see what I can interest it in on Saturday when I will have plenty of time to watch it through the day.
Unfortunately we cannot get the specialised frozen angel food here, due to agricultural/environmental import regulations, so I am going to have a go at mixing some local sponges into my own brew. I donââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t have any zoanthids, as something else (unidentified) disposes of those, and it too early to tell what else it might eat that I donââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t want it to.
Steve
Having just put one in my mostly SPS reef (1500L/400USG capacity), last Saturday morning, I have become an avid consumer of everything about Regal angels, even more so than before it actually arrived. Mine apparently comes from Indonesia. It has a yellow chest, appears to be a male and is 12cm long ââ"šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ basically a young adult.
It spent 3 weeks in quarantine, sharing a tank with yellow tangs and some damsels, before I got it, and was reportedly an enthusiastic consumer of pretty much everything it was offered. It certainly looks like it has been enjoying a good supply of food. One of those yellow tangs has also gone into my reef and I have seen the two hanging out together when they were still pretty shy and spent most of their time behind the rocks. They both started swimming freely round the tank some time yesterday (Thursday).
A large damsel and a purple tang have given them the most trouble but the damsel was not interested in pursuing them under the reef and the purple tang, which seemed most annoyed at the yellow tang, seems quite happy now. The damsel, which is the same size as the Regal, is now not interested in it and only chases the, smaller, yellow tang. Luckily, my very large blue tang (3 x the size of Regal) has carried on mostly ignoring all other fish, as per usual and as I had hoped it would.
Although this tank is only 2 months old, the reef and fish came from a similar sized tank I had been running for over 10 years. Since I expect the angel to spend quite a bit of time thinning out the sponge/whatever population under the reef I have not really bothered to try to feed it yet and it has been clearly quite happy picking round the rocks, something it started within an hour of arrival. Now that it is out and about I will see what I can interest it in on Saturday when I will have plenty of time to watch it through the day.
Unfortunately we cannot get the specialised frozen angel food here, due to agricultural/environmental import regulations, so I am going to have a go at mixing some local sponges into my own brew. I donââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t have any zoanthids, as something else (unidentified) disposes of those, and it too early to tell what else it might eat that I donââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t want it to.
Steve
JDM130
Premium Member
Here's a pic of mine. Mine must be the exception to the general rule of these fish. He is in a 360 gal. community tank with other large Angels and some Tangs. No one ever looked twice at this fish. He is always out and about picking on the LR. Mine eats anything I throw in to the tank, but he especially loves New Life Spectrum pelletts. Even though it is one of the smaller fish in my tank, he does bully my H. Tusk around when it comes to close.
Jeff
Jeff
HOZERTHEBONEFISH
Member
Picture update of my regal. Please everybody else join in!!
This is march
And few days ago.
Check out the false eye dissappearing!! She grew at least half inch!!
This is march
And few days ago.
Check out the false eye dissappearing!! She grew at least half inch!!
juice me man
New member
i really good thread and very informantive.
awesome regal everybody. i hope to get one in my new 250g reef when it up and running.
awesome regal everybody. i hope to get one in my new 250g reef when it up and running.
dvmsn
New member
Episode III Revenge of the Regal
I purchased my third regal the Sunday before last. He was a heavy eater at the store. He had a small lymphocystis on his cheek and gill barb. Lymphocystis are rarely pose a direct threat to the health of the fish (secondary infections seem to be the biggest danger they generally cause), I decided that because he was so outgoing and eating so well I would take him home. Over the course of the week I noticed he was less aggressive when eating. On Saturday, he didn't come out all day. The next morning I found him floating in the tank. This is my third attempt with this fish. Number One: good eater from day one, lived for several months before dying in an equipment related death. Numbers One and Two: Both lost interest in food over time and eventually died. I can't stand watching these things slowly dying in my tank. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do not ever order one of these fish into your lfs with the hopes of keeping it alive. Your chances of having one make it are terrible. Read this entire thread and take a body count. I know that healthy ones come in occasionally, I had one. IMO, the problem with keeping a regal is not husbandry, but the availability of healthy specimens.
I purchased my third regal the Sunday before last. He was a heavy eater at the store. He had a small lymphocystis on his cheek and gill barb. Lymphocystis are rarely pose a direct threat to the health of the fish (secondary infections seem to be the biggest danger they generally cause), I decided that because he was so outgoing and eating so well I would take him home. Over the course of the week I noticed he was less aggressive when eating. On Saturday, he didn't come out all day. The next morning I found him floating in the tank. This is my third attempt with this fish. Number One: good eater from day one, lived for several months before dying in an equipment related death. Numbers One and Two: Both lost interest in food over time and eventually died. I can't stand watching these things slowly dying in my tank. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do not ever order one of these fish into your lfs with the hopes of keeping it alive. Your chances of having one make it are terrible. Read this entire thread and take a body count. I know that healthy ones come in occasionally, I had one. IMO, the problem with keeping a regal is not husbandry, but the availability of healthy specimens.
dvmsn
New member
Episode III Revenge of the Regal
I purchased my third regal the Sunday before last. He was a heavy eater at the store. He had a small lymphocystis on his cheek and gill barb. Lymphocystis are rarely pose a direct threat to the health of the fish (secondary infections seem to be the biggest danger they generally cause), I decided that because he was so outgoing and eating so well I would take him home. Over the course of the week I noticed he was less aggressive when eating. On Saturday, he didn't come out all day. The next morning I found him floating in the tank. This is my third attempt with this fish. Number One: good eater from day one, lived for several months before dying in an equipment related death. Numbers One and Two: Both lost interest in food over time and eventually died. I can't stand watching these things slowly dying in my tank. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do not ever order one of these fish into your lfs with the hopes of keeping it alive. Your chances of having one make it are terrible. Read this entire thread and take a body count. I know that healthy ones come in occasionally, I had one. IMO, the problem with keeping a regal is not husbandry, but the availability of healthy specimens.
I purchased my third regal the Sunday before last. He was a heavy eater at the store. He had a small lymphocystis on his cheek and gill barb. Lymphocystis are rarely pose a direct threat to the health of the fish (secondary infections seem to be the biggest danger they generally cause), I decided that because he was so outgoing and eating so well I would take him home. Over the course of the week I noticed he was less aggressive when eating. On Saturday, he didn't come out all day. The next morning I found him floating in the tank. This is my third attempt with this fish. Number One: good eater from day one, lived for several months before dying in an equipment related death. Numbers One and Two: Both lost interest in food over time and eventually died. I can't stand watching these things slowly dying in my tank. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do not ever order one of these fish into your lfs with the hopes of keeping it alive. Your chances of having one make it are terrible. Read this entire thread and take a body count. I know that healthy ones come in occasionally, I had one. IMO, the problem with keeping a regal is not husbandry, but the availability of healthy specimens.
dvmsn:
Did you quarantine these regal angelfish before introducing them to your display tank? The fact that your last fish was a "heavy eater" at your LFS and then "lost interest in food" in your aquarium indicates that it was suffering from either parasites or bacterial infection, which is common with newly introduced fish, especially regal angels. The existing fish may have built up an immunity to these issues but newly-introduced fish often succomb to them because they have weakened immune systems brought on by stress. The quarantine protocol allows the fish to settle in and adapt to aquarium fare. In addition, you have the opportunity to successfully treat bacterial or parasitic problems if they arise. If you didn't put the fish through a quaratine protocol, then you really can't claim they were "unhealthy specimens."
Did you quarantine these regal angelfish before introducing them to your display tank? The fact that your last fish was a "heavy eater" at your LFS and then "lost interest in food" in your aquarium indicates that it was suffering from either parasites or bacterial infection, which is common with newly introduced fish, especially regal angels. The existing fish may have built up an immunity to these issues but newly-introduced fish often succomb to them because they have weakened immune systems brought on by stress. The quarantine protocol allows the fish to settle in and adapt to aquarium fare. In addition, you have the opportunity to successfully treat bacterial or parasitic problems if they arise. If you didn't put the fish through a quaratine protocol, then you really can't claim they were "unhealthy specimens."
