sonofgaladriel
Shiny!
Video would be great! Congrats on the healthy pair!
Regal Angel Primer
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Psionicdragon
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no, the tank is too small.
You're asking a little much a little early. Feel good about it eating mysis. Give it some time and it may eat the spectrum (especially since it's trying and just spitting them out already). This thread is full of info on their different eating habits and likes. I suggest you read the whole thing...
My little Regals, chase formula 2 flake down all over the tank and seem to never get full. The spectrum pellets, they catch but spit out, catch again and spit out again. My very first regal did the same thing, but eventually after a 7 to 8 feedings, began eating them. The pellets obviously have a much different texture, taste and hardness to them so it will take some getting used to. You may try to soak the pellets for 20 to 30 seconds in some tank water to 'soften' them up a bit.
Mine is beginning its third week of QT...or rather, isolation in my frag tank. Still doing very well on a diet of clams, oysters, PE Mysis, Pro-V, Formula's One and Two, and Prime Reef. Will even rush out of its hiding place and hang at the front of the glass in anticipation of being fed whenever I walk into the room. So far, it hasn't picked on any corals or zoanthids either; a model citizen.
Hey Ali, congrats on the twins! You GOTTA post up some pictures.
By the way, what are Spectrum pellets?
Hey Ali, congrats on the twins! You GOTTA post up some pictures.
By the way, what are Spectrum pellets?
slobound
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Hey Ali, I picked up a juvi regal about 3 weeks ago. It's eating well too - mysis, brine, chopped shrimp, and a little spectrum. Won't touch the spirulina flake though. It's in my sump with my mystery wrasse and perc pair. Still a little sketched out to put him in the display... fearing for my corals. Decisions decisions...
Psionicdragon
New member
so no one knows how to make a fish eat other things beside clam?
Garrick,
Go for it! What the heck are you waiting for?
Michael, these are Spectrum pellet foods:
Some of the best fish food on the market. I use the Thera+A non-medicated anti-parasitic formula.
The twins are really going after the pellets now as well. Starving lunatics, they're tearing it up. I love 'em. I'll do my best to get some shots or a vid.
Psionicdragon,
You can try injecting the pellets right into their stomachs using certain aiptasia applicators on the market. Seriously though, there is no way to answer your question. If we knew how to make a fish that doesn't want to eat, EAT, then we wouldn't be having long, drawn-out, informative discussion threads such as this in the first place. Just be consistent in your feedings, try a variety of foods of different textures/consistencies and provide the fish with a good environment. Another tip would be to have several 'pig-like' dither fish such as small chromis or wrasses which can 'teach/show' the finicky fish how to eat and help them recognize what is food. This may help them get accustomed to the 'new' foods.
Go for it! What the heck are you waiting for?
Michael, these are Spectrum pellet foods:
Some of the best fish food on the market. I use the Thera+A non-medicated anti-parasitic formula.
The twins are really going after the pellets now as well. Starving lunatics, they're tearing it up. I love 'em. I'll do my best to get some shots or a vid.
Psionicdragon,
You can try injecting the pellets right into their stomachs using certain aiptasia applicators on the market. Seriously though, there is no way to answer your question. If we knew how to make a fish that doesn't want to eat, EAT, then we wouldn't be having long, drawn-out, informative discussion threads such as this in the first place. Just be consistent in your feedings, try a variety of foods of different textures/consistencies and provide the fish with a good environment. Another tip would be to have several 'pig-like' dither fish such as small chromis or wrasses which can 'teach/show' the finicky fish how to eat and help them recognize what is food. This may help them get accustomed to the 'new' foods.
Steve Atkins
New member
That was one of the keys in my case. The fish was always interested in eating but didn't have a clue about chasing food down in the water column. Living in a tank full of greedy gluttons and being a naturally inquisitive sort of fish (as most angels are) it gradually learned that anything I put in was likely to be food and how to chase it down.
Steve
HOZERTHEBONEFISH
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Thats a cute little guy(or gal) Slobound. How long have you had it for?
About them spectrum pellets,(and I think we should all get paid or be sponsored by spectrum at this point) its gotten to a point where my regal doesnt really like frozen mysis compared to the pellets!!
In the past she used to attack the mysis but now she eats a few and looks as if to say... where are the pellets?
Lately I have been mixing cyclopeeze flakes and spirulina flakes with spectrum and the regal also digs them flakes.
About them spectrum pellets,(and I think we should all get paid or be sponsored by spectrum at this point) its gotten to a point where my regal doesnt really like frozen mysis compared to the pellets!!
In the past she used to attack the mysis but now she eats a few and looks as if to say... where are the pellets?
Lately I have been mixing cyclopeeze flakes and spirulina flakes with spectrum and the regal also digs them flakes.
Psionicdragon
New member
They are actually eating...clams only. I have tried mysis, brine, spectrum, flake, seaweed, pellets, etc and they won't go for it besides clams. It isn't that they aren't eating..its that they won't eat something else.
Steve Atkins
New member
One thing I have recently discovered that all the fish, including the Regal, are very keen on, is diced up frozen baby squid tubes. I had previously used these is part of the frozen food mix I prepare but recently started feeding just the diced tubes to a Tubastrea I keep in the sump. When I put the remainder into the tank there is a major stampede, even more so than the usual stampede at feeding time.
Steve
Steve
