Regal Angel Primer

need help with my regal. I bought a yellow chest regal about 1.5"weeks ago. when I first put him in my tank it was doing good and eating. Now its not comming out and seem to just lay there and will not eat even if I put food right in front of it. I also noticed that he does not move at all. What can I do to help the fish out.
 
need help with my regal. I bought a yellow chest regal about 1.5"weeks ago. when I first put him in my tank it was doing good and eating. Now its not comming out and seem to just lay there and will not eat even if I put food right in front of it. I also noticed that he does not move at all. What can I do to help the fish out.
 
First we need pics. Second did you qt or not? What are your tank parameters? Does he look healthy? Fat, no spots, no fin issues, etc? I'm afraid it's to late but we have to know these things to even atempt to help.
 
Try using some gutter guard like material and put frozen angle formula cubes in between the mesh and clip it to a algae clip. Thats how I got mine to eat. Mine won't take food out of the water column, but goes for this.
 
I was on my 30th day of quarantine and my Regal died today. A sad feeling as a Regal is one of the fish I want keep the most after reading this thread. Its a mystery as to why it died. Reminded me of Nexdog's Regal after the his 30 days quarantine period

I had about 10 fish I took back from my Hawaii trip and the regal was purchased from a LFS here a few days later as I wanted to quarantine all fish all at once in my 60 gal Q-tank. No hypo was used by Cupramine was used instead. The Regal was eating on the 3rd day and it ate mysis, spectrum pellets, and clam on the half shell. Most of the fish from Hawaii were fine after 2 weeks so almost all are in the main tank. I noticed that the Regal's appetite has gone down somewhat so I decided to keep it in my Q-tank longer. It still ate clam on the half shell this morning but when I came home for lunch I found the Regal dead :(

Im not sure if it was stressed out too much from the Q-tank or was it the month long Cupramine treatment. Perhaps I should of left him in the main tank after 2 weeks. I did change 10% of the water daily in the Q-tank. Maybe I kept too many fish in my quarantine tank? The only fish left in my Qtank now is a Longnose butterfly (Healthy) and a Blueface (healthy and did not chase the regal).

John37 if you see a healthy Regal at your LFS again please let me know.
 
Very sorry to hear about that bud. :( If I see a healthy one that eats at any of the SoCal stores I'll send you a PM.

My pair is still doing real well. Eating everything and growing. I haven't seen them in over 4 months though since I have a buddy holding them for me at his place until I get their new Red Sea habitat set-up. I would love to put them in a SPS tank, however the smaller regal does pick at SPS here and there, nothing major. I'd rather have the Acros grow and color up without the added stress of fish picking on them. However, in the near future, I'd love to add a "reef-safe" regal one day to the acro system as well.
 
awwww man. sorry to hear that. Yeah if i see one there again i'll let you know. Did you have bio filtration in your QT tank? MAybe you should check your nitrites and ammonia.
 
Thanks Projectreef and John37. PM me if you indeed see a nice healthy Regal.

I thought it might be an ammonia or nitrite problem but the Moorish Idol from Hawaii showed no ill effects so I thought I was ok and I was changing 10% water daily and 25% weekly and by the 3rd week most of the fish were out of the Q-tank. 2 buckets of salts (300 gallons worth) was used for that q-tank over the course of the month.
 
cthetoy, so sorry to hear that. Best of luck on the next one. I think the Q-tank, with treatment, nonetheless, was a wise decision.

I know this is a PITA, but next time I quarentine a difficult species I am going to age the Q-tank. I think it's best to age the water in the hyposalinity/copper tank before adding the difficult fish. I prefer hyposalinity. In my case, I am going to need 2 tanks plus an aging RO water tank/container. I am going to age a hyposalinity tank with some base rock, strong circulation, and no fish for at least a month with a salinity of 1.009. I will wait for some nice algae to develop to help keep the pH up and give the fish something to graze on. I will throw in a nitrogen source to spike the NO3 cycle and develop nitrosomas fauna over the month. When this is established, I will buy the difficult fish and place it in a different tank (tank#2), Tank #2 will be pretty bland with some pvc (I don't want a NH3 spike while I drop the salinity). Keep in mind that tank #2 will be set up for some time, as well, before buying the fish. I will use my litermeter to continually and slowly drop the salinity in tank #2 (it will start at 1.023/4/5) over 3 days with aged, highly oxygenated, RO water (kept in a seperate tank). I will also have a skimmer on both tanks to keep the tanks highly oxygenated. When the salinity in tank #2 is finally decreased to 1.009, then I will transfer the fish to the aged hyposalinity tank (tank#1) and keep him there for 30+ days. I will then slowly raise the salinity of tank #1 back to 1.023-5 over 7-10 days. Then the fish goes into the display tank. If you have the room to do this, I bet it would work great. My aged hyposalinity tank is going to be 75 gallons.
 
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Great thread! I have been waiting for my LFS to bring in a RS regal but no luck. They did get a good size grey belly regal in so he/she is now doing pretty well in my tank. He will nip at the rocks and some mysis in the water column but never out in the open. I have a Chrysrus angel that was the boss of the tank but the Regal kicked him out of his sleeping area. Here is a couple of pictures. The last one was photoshoped due to the flash. He had what looked like the beggining of the cauliflower white stuff on his rear fin but it has since gone away.

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When I QT a regal or other delicate fish I set up a small tank with some sand and a few hunks of LR and macro from my fuge and a cleaner shrimp. I don't treat with any meds or hypo.

The theory is that you take a month to make sure they don't have anything serious that they are bringing to the tank, but you give them the best environment you can during that time. The pod rich tank with no other fish gives a huge boost to their feeding response and diversity in their diet with the other things they eat off the LR. The cleaner shrimp may not do a huge amount to fix diseases, but it goes a long way towards calming and relaxing the fish.

If they come down with something I remove them to a hospital tank and at least the short time in the live QT will have hopefully given them the strength to make it.
 
Great news on my guy (see page 23) he only got better and better and stronger and stronger so after 3 weeks of strong feeding and literally eating anything and looking great I put him into the 450G Reef Sunday! He's doing great. Active, eating and not taking crap from the foxface who thinks he's boss but the Regal knows he is! He hasn't messed with any of my corals but there is no zos or softies in there. He has been eating sponges off the rock like crazy. I'll try to get some pics up!

I feed him a mix of everything but try to feed most of the San Fransico Bay Brand Angel and Butterfly formula as it has a decent amount of sponge in it.

What foods have the most sponge?

I think that might be the key longer term! I also think I'll take some live rock from the sump every so often and stick it in the tank for him to nibble on as this is sponge ridden stuff!

I hit the two month mark with my guy. By no means enough to declare a victory but I very optimistic. Hope to have this one for years!

Cindy, couldn't agree more with our methods! Think that is the way to go. I'm just not ever going to just dump a fish in my reef. Isn't going to happen.

I do the same for mandarins, etc. Over the years I have had 7 Mandarins (both target and psy, as well as a couple scoter blennoes) that I have qt'd in a minireef that was setup long before I got them. I had all eating prepared within a couple weeks and all had plenty of pods to snack on in the meantime.
 
Got mine today, eating well 2 weeks in lfs qt.

Getting bullied by nigroris tang at present, but holding his own!

Lets keep this thread going....
 
well to update my post regarding my regal. I guess there was some kind of infection on the fish since all the fishes from that store where dead. I did losse mine but I was able to find another one that was a little beat up from the fins and gave it a shoot. So now I have a great looking fish that is eating like a pig and is not shy at all. I will post pictures of it late on.
 
Well here is mine and he is now eating everything I put in the tank (food wise) and its one of the best behaved fish I have.
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Awesome LETS SEE some updated pics and info on all your regals PLEASE :)
Mine is 2 days old ate like a PIG in the stores tank all hes done so far is pick at the rock from what I can see. I will be adding seastrips tomorrow also to the tank
T.
 
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