Bi color angelfish not eating

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I got him 4 days ago and haven’t seen him eat a thing. He’s pretty timid and hides during feeding time but swims around and acts fine other then that. I have garlic nori in the tank and doesn’t seem to like that either. Any suggestions?
 
I got him 4 days ago and haven’t seen him eat a thing. He’s pretty timid and hides during feeding time but swims around and acts fine other then that. I have garlic nori in the tank and doesn’t seem to like that either. Any suggestions?
Angels are mainly benthic eaters. This means their normal behavior is to find food among the rocks and substrate and not in the water column. They eat a lot of algae, coral polyp and sponge in the wild.

If you would like to try live food, try getting some live clams from your local grocer with a sea food counter, popping one open and placing it in a tight spot in the rock so it doesnt get blown away. Another thing is there is a type of food called mastic. This is like a playdoh fish food you can press onto the glass, but even better, press it into a crevass in a rock and it will mimic the fish's normal feeding.

I currently have a majestic and eibli angel in my tank and both are eating nori on a clip and LRS Herbivore Frenzy as well as pellets from the water column. I had a bicolor a few years ago and his favorite food was my LPS coral. Keep offering different foods in different ways. Four days is still new for a fish and some take a while to accept food.
 
Angels are mainly benthic eaters. This means their normal behavior is to find food among the rocks and substrate and not in the water column. They eat a lot of algae, coral polyp and sponge in the wild.

If you would like to try live food, try getting some live clams from your local grocer with a sea food counter, popping one open and placing it in a tight spot in the rock so it doesnt get blown away. Another thing is there is a type of food called mastic. This is like a playdoh fish food you can press onto the glass, but even better, press it into a crevass in a rock and it will mimic the fish's normal feeding.

I currently have a majestic and eibli angel in my tank and both are eating nori on a clip and LRS Herbivore Frenzy as well as pellets from the water column. I had a bicolor a few years ago and his favorite food was my LPS coral. Keep offering different foods in different ways. Four days is still new for a fish and some take a while to accept food.
Thank you for the helpful response! I am hoping he doesn’t get a taste for my lps he’s on trial for now haha
 
Thank you for the helpful response! I am hoping he doesn’t get a taste for my lps he’s on trial for now haha
Euphillia are a pretty solid safe bet with angels. Duncans, elegance, ect... those too.

Acans, trachys, scolys, trumpets... anything that looks like a juicy donut. Those are what you have to watch for. My two are in the tank with some blasos and zoas(two known angel delicacies) and they dont touch them. Every fish is different.
 

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