My Potter's Angel...

[gofor100]

Hey Guys,

Just stoked that I finally got a pretty decent pic of my Potter's Angel (have had him for about 3 months now), and with my iPhone of all things.

This is the first pic he's actually stood still long enough for me to capture the detail of his stripes and color patterns (lines are more purple in person)... too bad my Flame Wrasse decided to hog some of the picture.



Some quick background if you're interested... When I saw him in the LFS he was fat and alert, but not eating. So against my better judgment, I broke the cardinal rule of purchasing a fish that isn't eating (since the other factors of him being fat and active and looking otherwise completely healthy) because I'd never seen a Potter's Angel quite like this one... his striping and colors were just so distinct and vibrant.

I then put him in my QT (my old 60 gallon tank) with some live rock to see if I could entice him to eat. I first tried live brine shrimp... he would come up to it, but then would turn away at the last minute. I then tried mysis and other frozen food soaked in garlic... no dice. I even tried rubberbanding a garlic-soaked scallop on a piece of LR... nope. So finally after a couple of days of me not seeing him eat, I figured, "Well, dwarf angels tend to graze in the wild- not eating from the water column- why don't I drop some garlic soaked pellets in there for the day and see if they're gone when I get home from work?". Voila!!! The same day the pellets were gone... although I had other fish in QT, so I couldn't guarantee that he was the one eating them. But then the next day when I was dropping the pellets in, he apparently put two and two together and finally started seeing items in the water column as a food source. From that point on, he's been a pig. So I quarantined him for the first 6 or so weeks treating with Cupramine then Prazipro in the last week before introduction into the DT. During the QT, he ate mainly NLS pellets and some Prime Reef frozen food here and there. Now that he's been in my DT for over a month, he now eats NLS/Formula 1/Formula 2 pellets, vitamin enriched brine shrimp, mysis, Prime Reef, and a Angelfish/Butterflyfish/Omninvore frozen mixture in addition to grazing on the rocks (although his favorite is still pellets).

Just wanted to share...

Thanks,

Chad

[gofor100]

Out of pure boredom... here's some more shots of him.





-Chad

[billyzbear]

Good looking fish. I don't have enough balls to put one in my reef.

[lucky_snapper]

Originally Posted by billyzbear

Good looking fish. I don't have enough balls to put one in my reef.

I have a 210 reed loaded with lps corals and have a flame and a potters angel and they never even look at the corals.

[gofor100]

Originally Posted by billyzbear

Good looking fish. I don't have enough balls to put one in my reef.

Yeah... I think it's worth the risk. Plus my personal experience has shown me that as long as they are well fed with a variety of foods they won't do any irreparable harm to anything.

Thanks

Chad

[gofor100]

Originally Posted by lucky_snapper

I have a 210 reed loaded with lps corals and have a flame and a potters angel and they never even look at the corals.

Yup... I think they are good reef citizens if given the right environment.

Thanks

Chad

[snorvich]

Never had the nerve to try one, but yours is gorgeous!

[gofor100]

Originally Posted by snorvich

Never had the nerve to try one, but yours is gorgeous!

Thanks! Definitely great little fish.

Chad