Regal Angel Primer - Page 9

MrMongoose · 01/20/2005, 10:35 PM

Cool, Mine is about an inch bigger than yours I love the bottem fin w/ the Blue and Rusty Bronze color from the RS Regals.

unicornis · 01/20/2005, 11:16 PM

cool... mine has been doing very well since day 2... i bring it hme on day 1 and it was looking very stress from the way it breathes at at first i thought it was not going to amke it... but on day 2 it was doing well.. and ard day 4 it start eating frozen mysis and brine.... IOts been darting in and out of liverock for the first week but now it just swim openly ... lapping ard the tank..... I had a zoos garden.. My experience with this fish is that this regal only wack zoos that are sickly or cover ina lgae... it wun wack healthy zoos....

see my zoo garden

MrMongoose · 01/21/2005, 08:45 AM

Wow cool! Your experiance sounds almost identical to mine.

malegolf · 01/21/2005, 09:13 AM

I had zoo's also, there gone now.......

Aquaduck · 01/21/2005, 11:51 AM

I found this 4" Regal at one of the LFS. I'm not sure of the origin of the fish (Iforgot toask!). They had it for 6 weeks and were feeding it freeze dried blood worms of all things. I asked to see the fish eat and it did so I took a chance on it. I treated it with copper in a quarantine tank for a few days then I read how copper can interfere with a fishes sense of taste and I did not want her to stop eating, so I trasfered her into my main tank. My yellow tang immediately took offense to the new-comer with the usual tail fanning like I thought it would. But with the Regal being a good inch larger it paid no attention to the tang. Now they get along great. The Regal ate a few sponges that I had growing in the tank as well as grazed on a very large white sea squirt that had been growing for over a year. She's eaten a patch of small brown zoos with orange centers but left everything in the tank alone. She's adjusted well to tank life and comes to the front whenever I am by the tank. I feed her Hikari Marine Angel frozen cubes thawed in tank water and feed with a pipette which she eagerly eats from. She also eats mysis and grazes on the rocks and glass. Here's my pride and joy of the tank:

MrMongoose · 01/21/2005, 11:55 AM

Looks like an Indo Regal, Also its not good to treat Angels w/ copper as you now know.

dvmsn · 01/21/2005, 01:24 PM

I thought I would relate this sad story. I posted picks of my regal on the first page of this thread. I was married on October 30, 2004. We left for the Bahamas the next day. I returned home to find my return pump had gone offline. Everything in my tank was dead, including my HEALTHY, eating all prepared food, not picking at anything in the tank including zoos, Regal Angel. So if anybody needs to get rid of theirs, I would be happy to help you out.

mmmmsushi · 01/21/2005, 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dvmsn
I thought I would relate this sad story. I posted picks of my regal on the first page of this thread. I was married on October 30, 2004. We left for the Bahamas the next day. I returned home to find my return pump had gone offline. Everything in my tank was dead, including my HEALTHY, eating all prepared food, not picking at anything in the tank including zoos, Regal Angel. So if anybody needs to get rid of theirs, I would be happy to help you out.

I'm sorry to hear that. Major Bummer.

You live in Georgetown? Is there a LFS around there other than Myrtle? My family has a place down there. Technically in Georgetown.

dvmsn · 01/21/2005, 02:00 PM

Only in Myrtle Beach.

Reefpuck · 01/21/2005, 02:33 PM

I have had a Regal for almost a week, and still have not seen it eat anything. Zoos have not been touched, but the fish is always hidding in the rocks. Wondering what people have had luck with getting them to eat.

I have tried Cyclopeeze, frozen mysis and brine, different flakes.

dvmsn · 01/21/2005, 02:43 PM

Did you see it eat anything at the LFS?

copps · 01/21/2005, 02:47 PM

Along with the recent success in keeping this species on more of a regular basis comes those specimens that will just refuse to eat until they completely waste away. It's a good indicator of health on many fish, but most importantly with these guys. Just keep throwing different things at him... They could last a while on picking alone...

Reefpuck · 01/21/2005, 04:59 PM

I actually didnt get him at a local fish store...I had someone pick him up from a local supplier here in L.A.

It is extremely healthy looking, and very bright colors...just not seeing him eat.

He lets the dam shrimp crawl over him...maybe he should just eat them.

MrMongoose · 01/21/2005, 05:58 PM

Try Fresh Clam or Oyster on the 1/2 shell on an alge clip, that worked for me. Also I think a major part of why these fish won't eat at first is because they are extreemly shy. Don't try to spy on him just put the food in and walk away, they can see you from about 20 feet away. Trust me I KNOW HAHA.

Aquaduck · 01/21/2005, 07:11 PM

Mine just started eating frozen Cyclopeze today! She's been watching the other fish feed on them for a few days and tonight she decided to try them and ate quite a bit.

unicornis · 01/21/2005, 08:33 PM

haha i was feedig mysis one day and it just viola.. start to eat

Project Reef · 01/30/2005, 07:33 AM

Alright! Picked up a cute little juvi. Red Sea regal on Friday. He's about 2 1/2-3" with really nice coloration. I'm stoked now because I just saw him taking a bunch of Spectrum Pellets and then going #2 after that.

About 5 minutes prior to feeding the tank I have been adding 7-10 drops of Kent Garlic Xtreme to the water to try and get them in a feeding frenzy (hey it's worth a shot). It's funny because I just came 4th place in a pretty good sized poker tournament but I'm 100x more stoked about this! Oh, and the coolest part, I do see him picking a stuff on the rock, however he hasn't even taken a second look at SPS, zoas, blastos, acans, favias, ricordea etc. I'll keep you guys updated...

Travis · 01/30/2005, 12:22 PM

I've read through every post in this thread and haven't heard a single report of anyone's regal eating or picking at sps. Has anybody observed this behavior in their regals?

I'm considering trying a regal after I had a bad experience with a recent attemp at a juvi emperor. I QT'd it for 6 weeks and then the day I put it in the tank it did a real number to several sps corals. Ended up having to tear down the entire 280 to get it out.

Aquaduck · 01/30/2005, 06:32 PM

I've had mine in the dispplay tank for 3 weeks now and it has not touched any SPS at all. It has however eaten all the smaller zoos but leaves the larger button polyps alone. It takes the odd bite out of some pulseing Xenia polyps. Some of my pulsing Xenia's look like they're flipping me the bird now. All of these types of softies I don't perticularly care for anyway. The Regal really likes to nibble on the sea squirts and sponges I have growing all over the tank. She's eaten some patches but they are sprouting up in other areas of the tank. Especially in the substrate. I figure the sea squirts go through the Regal's digestive tract and somehow manage to re-grow out of the feces.

mmmmsushi · 01/31/2005, 07:38 AM

I think my Regal thinks she's all domesticated and stuff....

She has yet to touch anything in the tank other than the food I put in. Including various sized Zoos and even some sponge that is growing in a little cave. Whenever she sees me she rushes to the front of the tank and tries to get my attention.

I did try some blackworms a couple weeks ago. She didn't try them until a few days of all the other fish eating them. Now she goes crazy over it.

Project Reef · 01/31/2005, 07:50 AM

Yes! The little guy is now aggressively taking in flake food (formula 1).

malegolf · 01/31/2005, 08:01 AM

I can't get mine to eat anything but Mysis, I've tried several flakes, oyster, squid. I may get a clam and try that, it did clean up my zoo's. I feed three small fish and the Regal a cube of Mysis each day, plus some flakes, not much though. Is that enough food for them?????

Thanks

jjjimmy · 01/31/2005, 08:16 AM

Hi all,

I am looking to get a Regal angel but I am concerned on getting it to eat prepared foods. I am going to be getting a couple of ball sponges for him to feed on to hopefully give it some time to get used to being in the tank and prepared foods.

My tank is a 180 SPS dominant tank. (3) 250 watt hqi's with (4) 110 watt o3 vho's. Tank has been running for over 1 year and all parameters are in check.

I would like any and all advise on what to do to get him to accept prepared foods.

thank you,

Jimmy

mmmmsushi · 01/31/2005, 09:27 AM

IMHO, I would start feeding him the food that you will be feeding him on a regular basis. I've found some fishes don't like to change once they've found a food they really like. Some Regals will eat like pigs and some are very picky.

If you get a Regal make sure he's eating first. I've had some fish that I've not added any special food to entice them to eat. They will not touch anything for a day, perhaps, and then start to eat. I've been VERY lucky in this respect.

On the other hand I have one fish that will eat nothing but very live food. He used to pick a little on the rocks, but now he waits for living black worms, and ignores everything else.

orangereefer · 02/01/2005, 07:16 AM

After bout 3 weeks in my tank, my regal finally started eating. I was so worried and already considered him a gonner. I'm so stoked he finally ate.

He's now eating free floating frozen food. He's not the fattest specimen in my tank but hopefully over time, he'll eat everything I give him. At one point I bought a sponge but didn't really touch it.

I'll post pics shortly when he gets a little fatter.

Mel

01/20/2005, 10:35 PM	#201
MrMongoose Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: West Lafayette, IN Posts: 370	Cool, Mine is about an inch bigger than yours I love the bottem fin w/ the Blue and Rusty Bronze color from the RS Regals. __________________ Understand first....Buy later.

01/21/2005, 08:45 AM	#203
MrMongoose Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: West Lafayette, IN Posts: 370	Wow cool! Your experiance sounds almost identical to mine. __________________ Understand first....Buy later.

01/21/2005, 09:13 AM	#204
malegolf Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: IN Posts: 368	I had zoo's also, there gone now....... __________________ If I can't play golf, I'll be at my aquarium enjoying the creatures. Current Tank Info: 150G Acrylic, 3 DE 250W Reef Optix Pendandts HQI 10K Aqualine Bulbs, Hammerhead on 4Way Oceansmotion Closed Loop, Dart on Two 3/4" Sea Swirls on Sump, GEO Skimmer, Aqua Medic Titan 1500 Chiller, Rubbermade Fuge, 180LBS LR, Jetstream 1 CA reacto

01/21/2005, 11:55 AM	#206
MrMongoose Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: West Lafayette, IN Posts: 370	Looks like an Indo Regal, Also its not good to treat Angels w/ copper as you now know. __________________ Understand first....Buy later.

01/21/2005, 02:33 PM	#210
Reefpuck Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Georgetown, TX Posts: 1,122	I have had a Regal for almost a week, and still have not seen it eat anything. Zoos have not been touched, but the fish is always hidding in the rocks. Wondering what people have had luck with getting them to eat. I have tried Cyclopeeze, frozen mysis and brine, different flakes. __________________ Josh Current Tank Info: 90g mixed reef w/ 55g sump/fuge.

01/20/2005, 11:16 PM	#202
unicornis Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 413	cool... mine has been doing very well since day 2... i bring it hme on day 1 and it was looking very stress from the way it breathes at at first i thought it was not going to amke it... but on day 2 it was doing well.. and ard day 4 it start eating frozen mysis and brine.... IOts been darting in and out of liverock for the first week but now it just swim openly ... lapping ard the tank..... I had a zoos garden.. My experience with this fish is that this regal only wack zoos that are sickly or cover ina lgae... it wun wack healthy zoos.... see my zoo garden

01/21/2005, 11:51 AM	#205
Aquaduck Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Waterloo, Ont. Canada Posts: 1,076	I found this 4" Regal at one of the LFS. I'm not sure of the origin of the fish (Iforgot toask!). They had it for 6 weeks and were feeding it freeze dried blood worms of all things. I asked to see the fish eat and it did so I took a chance on it. I treated it with copper in a quarantine tank for a few days then I read how copper can interfere with a fishes sense of taste and I did not want her to stop eating, so I trasfered her into my main tank. My yellow tang immediately took offense to the new-comer with the usual tail fanning like I thought it would. But with the Regal being a good inch larger it paid no attention to the tang. Now they get along great. The Regal ate a few sponges that I had growing in the tank as well as grazed on a very large white sea squirt that had been growing for over a year. She's eaten a patch of small brown zoos with orange centers but left everything in the tank alone. She's adjusted well to tank life and comes to the front whenever I am by the tank. I feed her Hikari Marine Angel frozen cubes thawed in tank water and feed with a pipette which she eagerly eats from. She also eats mysis and grazes on the rocks and glass. Here's my pride and joy of the tank:

01/21/2005, 01:24 PM	#207
dvmsn Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Surfside Beach, SC Posts: 3,008	I thought I would relate this sad story. I posted picks of my regal on the first page of this thread. I was married on October 30, 2004. We left for the Bahamas the next day. I returned home to find my return pump had gone offline. Everything in my tank was dead, including my HEALTHY, eating all prepared food, not picking at anything in the tank including zoos, Regal Angel. So if anybody needs to get rid of theirs, I would be happy to help you out.

01/21/2005, 02:00 PM	#209
dvmsn Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Surfside Beach, SC Posts: 3,008	Only in Myrtle Beach.

01/21/2005, 02:43 PM	#211
dvmsn Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Surfside Beach, SC Posts: 3,008	Did you see it eat anything at the LFS?

01/21/2005, 02:47 PM	#212
copps Premium Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Northern VA Posts: 2,679	Along with the recent success in keeping this species on more of a regular basis comes those specimens that will just refuse to eat until they completely waste away. It's a good indicator of health on many fish, but most importantly with these guys. Just keep throwing different things at him... They could last a while on picking alone... __________________ - John Coppolino September '04 RC TOTM January '11 RC TOTM Buy fish that excite YOU, and respect others' passions. Yes, we know, there's a cheaper and prettier fish than the one we’re talking about. Current Tank Info: displays are 1300 gallon SPS (8.5' x 6' x 42"), 240 gallon anemone, and 350 gallon fish only

01/21/2005, 04:59 PM	#213
Reefpuck Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Georgetown, TX Posts: 1,122	I actually didnt get him at a local fish store...I had someone pick him up from a local supplier here in L.A. It is extremely healthy looking, and very bright colors...just not seeing him eat. He lets the dam shrimp crawl over him...maybe he should just eat them. __________________ Josh Current Tank Info: 90g mixed reef w/ 55g sump/fuge.

01/21/2005, 05:58 PM	#214
MrMongoose Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: West Lafayette, IN Posts: 370	Try Fresh Clam or Oyster on the 1/2 shell on an alge clip, that worked for me. Also I think a major part of why these fish won't eat at first is because they are extreemly shy. Don't try to spy on him just put the food in and walk away, they can see you from about 20 feet away. Trust me I KNOW HAHA. __________________ Understand first....Buy later.

01/21/2005, 07:11 PM	#215
Aquaduck Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Waterloo, Ont. Canada Posts: 1,076	Mine just started eating frozen Cyclopeze today! She's been watching the other fish feed on them for a few days and tonight she decided to try them and ate quite a bit.

01/21/2005, 08:33 PM	#216
unicornis Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 413	haha i was feedig mysis one day and it just viola.. start to eat

01/30/2005, 07:33 AM	#217
Project Reef **** R.C. Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 5,844	Alright! Picked up a cute little juvi. Red Sea regal on Friday. He's about 2 1/2-3" with really nice coloration. I'm stoked now because I just saw him taking a bunch of Spectrum Pellets and then going #2 after that. About 5 minutes prior to feeding the tank I have been adding 7-10 drops of Kent Garlic Xtreme to the water to try and get them in a feeding frenzy (hey it's worth a shot). It's funny because I just came 4th place in a pretty good sized poker tournament but I'm 100x more stoked about this! Oh, and the coolest part, I do see him picking a stuff on the rock, however he hasn't even taken a second look at SPS, zoas, blastos, acans, favias, ricordea etc. I'll keep you guys updated... __________________ - Ali

01/30/2005, 12:22 PM	#218
Travis 10 and over club Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Sioux Falls, SD Posts: 5,525	I've read through every post in this thread and haven't heard a single report of anyone's regal eating or picking at sps. Has anybody observed this behavior in their regals? I'm considering trying a regal after I had a bad experience with a recent attemp at a juvi emperor. I QT'd it for 6 weeks and then the day I put it in the tank it did a real number to several sps corals. Ended up having to tear down the entire 280 to get it out. __________________ TOTM August 08 An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Current Tank Info: 280 sps w/ 75 LPS, 75 refugium, 120 sump

01/30/2005, 06:32 PM	#219
Aquaduck Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Waterloo, Ont. Canada Posts: 1,076	I've had mine in the dispplay tank for 3 weeks now and it has not touched any SPS at all. It has however eaten all the smaller zoos but leaves the larger button polyps alone. It takes the odd bite out of some pulseing Xenia polyps. Some of my pulsing Xenia's look like they're flipping me the bird now. All of these types of softies I don't perticularly care for anyway. The Regal really likes to nibble on the sea squirts and sponges I have growing all over the tank. She's eaten some patches but they are sprouting up in other areas of the tank. Especially in the substrate. I figure the sea squirts go through the Regal's digestive tract and somehow manage to re-grow out of the feces.

01/31/2005, 07:38 AM	#220
mmmmsushi Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 399	I think my Regal thinks she's all domesticated and stuff.... She has yet to touch anything in the tank other than the food I put in. Including various sized Zoos and even some sponge that is growing in a little cave. Whenever she sees me she rushes to the front of the tank and tries to get my attention. I did try some blackworms a couple weeks ago. She didn't try them until a few days of all the other fish eating them. Now she goes crazy over it. __________________ "I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?" -Tom Smykowski Current Tank Info: 125g Reef

01/31/2005, 07:50 AM	#221
Project Reef **** R.C. Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 5,844	Yes! The little guy is now aggressively taking in flake food (formula 1). __________________ - Ali

01/31/2005, 08:01 AM	#222
malegolf Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: IN Posts: 368	I can't get mine to eat anything but Mysis, I've tried several flakes, oyster, squid. I may get a clam and try that, it did clean up my zoo's. I feed three small fish and the Regal a cube of Mysis each day, plus some flakes, not much though. Is that enough food for them????? Thanks __________________ If I can't play golf, I'll be at my aquarium enjoying the creatures. Current Tank Info: 150G Acrylic, 3 DE 250W Reef Optix Pendandts HQI 10K Aqualine Bulbs, Hammerhead on 4Way Oceansmotion Closed Loop, Dart on Two 3/4" Sea Swirls on Sump, GEO Skimmer, Aqua Medic Titan 1500 Chiller, Rubbermade Fuge, 180LBS LR, Jetstream 1 CA reacto

01/31/2005, 08:16 AM	#223
jjjimmy Premium Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Algonquin, IL Posts: 2,867	Hi all, I am looking to get a Regal angel but I am concerned on getting it to eat prepared foods. I am going to be getting a couple of ball sponges for him to feed on to hopefully give it some time to get used to being in the tank and prepared foods. My tank is a 180 SPS dominant tank. (3) 250 watt hqi's with (4) 110 watt o3 vho's. Tank has been running for over 1 year and all parameters are in check. I would like any and all advise on what to do to get him to accept prepared foods. thank you, Jimmy __________________ How strange it seems that the truth is something that most do not want to hear.

01/31/2005, 09:27 AM	#224
mmmmsushi Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 399	IMHO, I would start feeding him the food that you will be feeding him on a regular basis. I've found some fishes don't like to change once they've found a food they really like. Some Regals will eat like pigs and some are very picky. If you get a Regal make sure he's eating first. I've had some fish that I've not added any special food to entice them to eat. They will not touch anything for a day, perhaps, and then start to eat. I've been VERY lucky in this respect. On the other hand I have one fish that will eat nothing but very live food. He used to pick a little on the rocks, but now he waits for living black worms, and ignores everything else. __________________ "I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?" -Tom Smykowski Current Tank Info: 125g Reef

02/01/2005, 07:16 AM	#225
orangereefer Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 391	After bout 3 weeks in my tank, my regal finally started eating. I was so worried and already considered him a gonner. I'm so stoked he finally ate. He's now eating free floating frozen food. He's not the fattest specimen in my tank but hopefully over time, he'll eat everything I give him. At one point I bought a sponge but didn't really touch it. I'll post pics shortly when he gets a little fatter. Mel