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I picked up a 5" blueface angel from my LFS on friday afternoon. By Fri. night it ate ~12 3mm pellets very aggressively. Saturday, between all the feedings, it ate 5 total pellets and mysis shrimp(served twice).

sat. night it didnt eat anything. tried twice today and it wont touch anything? (nls pellets, flakes, mysis shrimp, rod's food, nori)

i have it by itself in a 40g breeder with LR.

this is an already aquarium acclimated BF. it was for a local guy for a few months and was returned back to the LFS b/c it was eating corals. before i bought it, i saw it ate small NLS pellets at the LFS.

Just a little antsy b/c this is my 1st big fish.
 
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I feed clams,krill,silversides,O.N. Form 1,2, angel form. just started feeding mysis,and lifeline frozen cube too, I add Vitachem, and Aminomega to the mix also. Only thing that slows it down is when I seperate them. I ruled out stray voltage. I even added a bio pellet reactor to try and control nitrates. Nothing seems to stop it from happening though. I kept the Blue face in QT for 2 months never had a sighn of it. As soon as I added it to the display within a month started showing signs of it. Right now the only other angel I have with it is a 7 inch annularis with 1 eye. Thats the only angel that I have that doesn't have it. I just put the tank in hypo too for an outbreak of ich. So now I'm sure the Blueface will get worse.
 
geaux xman said:
I picked up a 5" blueface angel from my LFS on friday afternoon. By Fri. night it ate ~12 3mm pellets very aggressively. Saturday, between all the feedings, it ate 5 total pellets and mysis shrimp(served twice).

sat. night it didnt eat anything. tried twice today and it wont touch anything? (nls pellets, flakes, mysis shrimp, rod's food, nori)

i have it by itself in a 40g breeder with LR.

Just a little antsy b/c this is my 1st big fish.
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Not knowing how you maintain the qt my first thought would be to check the water parameters. Maybe even a partial WC then try a live clam to see if this will entice him to eat.

Good luck with your new angel and it's one of my favorite.
 
geaux xman said:
I picked up a 5" blueface angel from my LFS on friday afternoon. By Fri. night it ate ~12 3mm pellets very aggressively. Saturday, between all the feedings, it ate 5 total pellets and mysis shrimp(served twice).

sat. night it didnt eat anything. tried twice today and it wont touch anything? (nls pellets, flakes, mysis shrimp, rod's food, nori)

i have it by itself in a 40g breeder with LR.

this is an already aquarium acclimated BF. it was for a local guy for a few months and was returned back to the LFS b/c it was eating corals. before i bought it, i saw it ate small NLS pellets at the LFS.

Just a little antsy b/c this is my 1st big fish.
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Is the QT running all the while?
Have you check your water parameter?
 
aldiver311 said:
I feed clams,krill,silversides,O.N. Form 1,2, angel form. just started feeding mysis,and lifeline frozen cube too, I add Vitachem, and Aminomega to the mix also. Only thing that slows it down is when I seperate them. I ruled out stray voltage. I even added a bio pellet reactor to try and control nitrates. Nothing seems to stop it from happening though. I kept the Blue face in QT for 2 months never had a sighn of it. As soon as I added it to the display within a month started showing signs of it. Right now the only other angel I have with it is a 7 inch annularis with 1 eye. Thats the only angel that I have that doesn't have it. I just put the tank in hypo too for an outbreak of ich. So now I'm sure the Blueface will get worse.
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One food additive seems extremely helpful is kent zoe+zoecon according to my friend who facing same problem. Nori also help as well. So may be include these in your fishes diet.

Normally when I do hypo, I will dose double/triple dosage of trace element.
 
no ammonia or nitrite as of last night. i'll check again later.

it ate a couple of pellets a few minutes ago. didnt touch the mysis shrimp.
 
Got my Queen Angel on Friday but its a small one so there is no way I could put it in my FO tank at home, I have it in a new display take I settup in my store pritty little one
 

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The Mesoluecus seems to be popular, one of my favorite fish just cant find a big one to play with my big bruisers LOL
 
It is a 100gal Show from SeaClear. The build quality of the tank is fantastic. I cannot say enough about it. Prior to the SeaClear I had a ******* tank. The ******* was bowing up to a 1/2" in the front, and back. A 1/2" in only twenty inches of height. I thought it was going to explode, literally. So I got rid of it at the dump. Expensive piece of junk was all it was.
 
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