Coral Beauty Carr

[DraggingTail]

My new Coral Beauty hides all the time. I see it eat algae from the rocks but he never eats when I feed the coral mysis or the clowns pellets.

Is this normal?

Sorry, I cannot even get a decent pic. He is kinda sideways in that hole.

He does come out when I am not near the tank.

 

[Oscaror]

My new Coral Beauty hides all the time. I see it eat algae from the rocks but he never eats when I feed the coral mysis or the clowns pellets.

Is this normal?

Sorry, I cannot even get a decent pic. He is kinda sideways in that hole.

He does come out when I am not near the tank.

You say he's new, how new? This is typical behavior for new fish especially dwarf angels.

 

[DraggingTail]

You say he's new, how new? This is typical behavior for new fish especially dwarf angels.

5 days. Will he starve?

 

[DraggingTail]

You say he's new, how new? This is typical behavior for new fish especially dwarf angels.

He does weird stuff like swim sideways thru paper thin crevasses too. And he was sleeping (I think...) on his side in one of those slots. [emoji17]

 

[Oscaror]

5 days. Will he starve?

5 days is fine I'd say, he's probably still getting used to his environment.

 

[DraggingTail]

5 days is fine I'd say, he's probably still getting used to his environment.

He does eat algae. Is that enough to sustain him?

 

[Oscaror]

He does eat algae. Is that enough to sustain him?

Well if he's eating something it's a good sign. I can't say how long it will take him to get used to his new tank though.

 

[Gareth elliott]

Try some angel/butterfly diet, contains a mixture of sponge, algae and other items they eat in the wild.

Also there is a deeper water sub species out there. Could try an acclimation setting on your light if this is the case. Something like 30% less intensity and add 1% per day for a month. What other fish do you have?

 

[DraggingTail]

Try some angel/butterfly diet, contains a mixture of sponge, algae and other items they eat in the wild.

Also there is a deeper water sub species out there. Could try an acclimation setting on your light if this is the case. Something like 30% less intensity and add 1% per day for a month. What other fish do you have?

I have a huge COC, cleaner shrimp, 2 clowns, Duncan coral, Acan coral and Acro coral, the Coral Beauty.

My biggest concern is him getting a taste for Duncan.... [emoji19]

 

[DraggingTail]

Try some angel/butterfly diet, contains a mixture of sponge, algae and other items they eat in the wild.

Also there is a deeper water sub species out there. Could try an acclimation setting on your light if this is the case. Something like 30% less intensity and add 1% per day for a month. What other fish do you have?

I have a 400w MH on 50% with a 20k Radium that runs 8 hours with a blue/white led that kicks on when the MH kicks off

 

[DraggingTail]

Try some angel/butterfly diet, contains a mixture of sponge, algae and other items they eat in the wild.

Also there is a deeper water sub species out there. Could try an acclimation setting on your light if this is the case. Something like 30% less intensity and add 1% per day for a month. What other fish do you have?

Looks just like this.

 

[DraggingTail]

Try some angel/butterfly diet, contains a mixture of sponge, algae and other items they eat in the wild.

Also there is a deeper water sub species out there. Could try an acclimation setting on your light if this is the case. Something like 30% less intensity and add 1% per day for a month. What other fish do you have?

He seems to like hanging out with the shrimp but scared of the clowns. He let's the shrimp clean which the clowns are reluctant to allow

 

[Gareth elliott]

Not a deep water coral beauty.

What species of clowns?

A way ive fed shy or reclusive fish, defrost the frozen food and pour into a power head so is spread into the nooks and crannies of your aquascape.

 

[Jesterrace]

My new Coral Beauty hides all the time. I see it eat algae from the rocks but he never eats when I feed the coral mysis or the clowns pellets.

Is this normal?

Sorry, I cannot even get a decent pic. He is kinda sideways in that hole.

He does come out when I am not near the tank.

Very normal for a new coral beauty. Mine did nothing but algae graze for about the first week and then it started nibbling on seaweed and reef frenzy. Some have reported theirs doing this for weeks or even a couple of months.

 

[Apotack]

I’ve had one for a month, it only picked from the rocks until about a week ago. It’s now eating everything I put in

 

[User1]

On the rare side here. My coral beauty went in and devoured everything. Right off the bat it was picking whatever it does from the rocks, substrate, and a few LPS hammer stalks. I fed that day some pellet food - attacked it and ate it. Next day I was adding frozen mysis again, ate. Next day some frozen brine, ate that too. It pretty much eats everything.

Mine is constantly combing the rocks while waiting for the normal food via auto feeder or me adding the mysis shrimp. I'd give it some time and just observe while you feed the other fish.

 

[DraggingTail]

Well mine died. I took water from before lights on and before light out. My PH is swinging from 7.0 at lights on to 8.4 at lights out....

 

[DraggingTail]

I am not sure what do about this. My MH comes on and consumes all the CO2 replacing it with O2. When lights go off my CO2 spikes

 

[Gareth elliott]

Sorry for the loss

I am doubtful though that ph was to blame. Many tanks have similar diurnal variations in ph. Was the fish quarantined first or treated with anything before added to dt? Besides illness there is also the possibility it was injury related to transportation or capture.

 

[DraggingTail]

Sorry for the loss

I am doubtful though that ph was to blame. Many tanks have similar diurnal variations in ph. Was the fish quarantined first or treated with anything before added to dt? Besides illness there is also the possibility it was injury related to transportation or capture.

I mentioned the PH because I complained to LFS. They had me bring in water. Couldn't find any issues. So they said PH was to blame and asked me to tested before and after lights
I was just told on another thread that my acro is dieing too. And the skeleton at the bottom was like that when I bought it. Sounds like they are ripping people off. I even asked about the Acro being grey at the bottom at the store. They said it will snap out of it under my 400 w MH and it just needed a good home