Regal Angel Primer

[Steve Atkins]

Also, I'm looking for a [good] photo of Red Sea Regal (which show the yellow throat coloration) and permission to use it. This is for a profile I'm working up for another group. Full photo credit will be given.

Thanks for the help.

Use one of mine if you like.

Interesting looking at those pics. I think he has grown a bit since then. I don't notice it on a day to day basis as the big Javanese damsel that was just a bit bigger than him, has grown also and is still just a bit bigger than him. Also, the blue stripe on one side that is incomplete in the pictures is starting to join up now.

This one has never bothered any SPS that I have noticed, but I suspect he may have had a peck at an LPS in front of his cave (where he spends hardly any time these days) after I injured it myself by dropping an SPS on top of it.

Despite now having had plenty of time to investigate his food supplies, he appears to have no interest in the sponges I added as they are all growing quite happily.


Steve

 

[Psionicdragon]

Psionic
I am surprised that the bay area has limited supply of regals in the LFS. It would seem that after So cal it would have the next best livestock selection.

Thats what I thought, but I see a store that gets it once in a while and it never eats .

I found another store that has one and I got it. Its eating in my tank.

What should I do to keep it pest free? If I remember correctly, most of you guys feed nori as part of their diet?

 

[HOZERTHEBONEFISH]

My advise is to feed it a lot and frequently.(without polluting your tank) I gave mine frozen mysis and live brine.

Mine ignores all nori completely.

 

[Steve Atkins]

Mine ignores all nori completely.

They do seem to have a wide variety of tastes, as mine charges into the nori and, when I first put it in, is quite prepared to push his way in between other fish to get his share.

I put a folded up sheet of nori in once a week, which gets eaten by about 1/2 the fish, and the frozen food I use contains nori.

Steve

 

[Psionicdragon]

Thanks for the responses.

It has a very healthy appetite and always pecking around for something.

Should I medicate it to get rid of any internal and external parasiteS?

 

[Aquaduck]

Mine ignores all nori completely.

Funny, because mine eats as much Nori (if not more) than my yellow tang. It could be the geographic area difference between the yellow breast and the grey breast. Perhaps the Indo-pacific ones prefer more vegetation in their diet. The tang has to wait in line until the RA is done. The RA eats it with such vigor you would swear it was a pit bull. I'll try and get a video of it eating tonight.

 

[Psionicdragon]

Mine is showing some ich and a small wound on the side.

I changed the water out and continue to feed it mysis and brine. It wouldn't eat flakes or Formula 1.

 

[HOZERTHEBONEFISH]

Mine had some ich too in the beginning. I have a uv which may have helped. I gave mine lots of Kents garlic and selcon with the food which helped.

Henry

 

[Rondelet]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6217838#post6217838 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Steve Atkins
Use one of mine if you like....

Steve, much obliged (I went with the top photo of your two).

Hozer: I looked at one of your shots a page or two back - it's an excellent picture but what are all the white spots? Doesn't look like ich. Looks as if you have a lot of particulates in you water?

 

[HOZERTHEBONEFISH]

They are particulates. I should get a sock filter or something...

My regal did have some ich in the beginning...

 

[Rook]

My regal used to ignore nori all thogether. When I added a tang to the mix the regal started eating nori almost at once when it watched the tang eat it.

I try to feed a lot of variety and I make sure some of the food contains garlic, fatty acids and vitamine addatives.

 

[Psionicdragon]

great news! my angel fish is still eating. The wound has almost completely heal. Ich is still there thouch

 

[drknap]

First Regal

First Regal

I just acquired a 5 to 6 inch Indian Ocean Regal via mail order. He is fat and looks healthy. I have him in my refugium at the moment because I feared he would not be able to compete with the agressive eaters in the display tank. I definitely have heighten concerns about success with keeping him alive after reading some of this thread. He is still not eating. I'm thinking I should keep him in the refugium, which has live rock and tons of macro algae, until he is fully acclimated and eating. I'd hate to put him in the main tank and then have problems.

 

[drknap]

First Regal

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[drknap]

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[HOZERTHEBONEFISH]

drknap

I agree that you should keep it in your refugium. Try live brine and mysis with kent garlic and selcon. Feed frequently, and be patient. It took mine forever to eat initially

Good luck.

 

[nctangman]

drknap,

Which online vendor did you purchase yours from (if I may ask)?

Kirk

 

[drknap]

saltwaterfish.com. I've used them many times over the past 2 years, for fish, and I have always got healthy specimens-and alway much bigger fish for the price. Communication with them however could be better.

 

[hlama]

drknap,
nice to see you here. you will get good feedback here. not any know it alls telling you, you have to this or that. just everyone shareing experiences.

wow its been a while, this thread has grown HUGE!!! i love it.

ok since this thread has grown so much lets here about your regal and any corals he/she has gone for. i think most of us know sps are pretty safe and zoo's are not so safe. so lets here it what has your been up too. include any that have not gone for anything.

 

[nctangman]

drknap,

Do you happen to have a pic of your fish you can share?
I would be interested in seeing it.

Most of the LFS here don't carry a regal angel, and I am very particular...ur, ok, I will say it--picky, when it comes to purchasing large angelfish (ie, regal, emperor, etc.).

Kirk