Getting ready for a regal angel

[GoldeneyeRet]

Ordered a juvi from LA, supposed to arrive tuesday, hopefully it ships!

I think I am prepared but would like some input as to what I should have on hand for my first attempt at a regal. Foods, meds, anything else I may need to raise my odds for success.

Thanks for the insight, wish me luck!

 

[GoVols]

Ordered a juvi from LA, supposed to arrive tuesday, hopefully it ships!

I think I am prepared but would like some input as to what I should have on hand for my first attempt at a regal. Foods, meds, anything else I may need to raise my odds for success.

Thanks for the insight, wish me luck!

My regal has loved the LRS Reef Frenzy / LRS Fish Freenzy from day one, but it was QT'd, six weeks before I got it from Reefwise in Chicago.

 

[rideit6578]

I lost mine due to a parasite (from a different fish ugh) but mine loved mysis pellets and seaweed. I had rocks in the qt for him to pick on and some tester corals to make sure he wasn't nipping

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

Thanks. I have reef frenzy, as well as about a dozen different frozen options. I only have nls pellets. good suggestion as I have read a lot of regals eat pellets first. I'll gets some more monday.

 

[bluedevils6653]

I actually just got a red sea regal from reefwise a couple weeks ago. eats pretty much everything. especially like lrs reef frenzy. great looking fish. it rivals my pair of candy basslets honestly

 

[DarthSimon]

I have a 5 1/2 inch Red Sea Regal for a while. I have had a few in my life. I think the trick is to let the Retailer QT your fish before you take him home. I bought my current one from a huge retailer that had about 6-7 specimens in a larger pool tank with other fish... He was there for 3-4 weeks and was treated and QT. When I observed him in this pool tank, all the Regal Specimens were eating aggressively a mixture of foods.... I didn't bother putting him through my QT... I had him hike and acclimated into my tanks water within 2 hours of leaving The retailer. Salinity was very close from retailers tank to my tank..... I had him eating, picking after acclimation with 24 hours. And fully eating all foods within 3-5 days.... After 2 weeks he became an animal with eating... Super aggressively attacking food... Mine devours Reef Frenzy, and will eat as much as I feed him. When he see's me, he rushes up to tank. I also hand feed him Medium Size Pellets. He gets his frozen and about 10 pellets twice a day. Other regals I have tried never lasted. I tried one last year, it wasn't eating at store.... Was a smaller specimen from Indian Ocean grey face. Only thing I saw him pick at was clams on half shell. He died about 8-10 days after intro.....


Here is my big guy!!! He’s the king of my tank!!!

 

[bluedevils6653]

he looks great! ill try and post a pic of mine here soon!

 

[bluedevils6653]

heres a not so great pic of my little guy

 

[blueface]

Hikari Spirulina Brine is always my first choice for new regals. Never had one refuse it.

 

[HotRocks]

I have also had to go to grocery and get live mussels, to kickstart them. Then typically they will eat the prepared frozen once they get going.
I've got one right now that I got from LA in QT!

 

[UncleSalty]

Hikari Spirulina Brine is always my first choice for new regals. Never had one refuse it.

It's funny you mention this, because while mine eats everything nowadays, apart from Collared Greens, the very first meaty thing I tried that he ate, was Brine. Nowadays, you can see him go crazy for it -and when there's myesis in the aquarium, he'll eat it, but nothing like the Brine.

 

[Tallison]

I have a 5 1/2 inch Red Sea Regal for a while. I have had a few in my life. I think the trick is to let the Retailer QT your fish before you take him home. I bought my current one from a huge retailer that had about 6-7 specimens in a larger pool tank with other fish... He was there for 3-4 weeks and was treated and QT. When I observed him in this pool tank, all the Regal Specimens were eating aggressively a mixture of foods.... I didn't bother putting him through my QT... I had him hike and acclimated into my tanks water within 2 hours of leaving The retailer. Salinity was very close from retailers tank to my tank..... I had him eating, picking after acclimation with 24 hours. And fully eating all foods within 3-5 days.... After 2 weeks he became an animal with eating... Super aggressively attacking food... Mine devours Reef Frenzy, and will eat as much as I feed him. When he see's me, he rushes up to tank. I also hand feed him Medium Size Pellets. He gets his frozen and about 10 pellets twice a day. Other regals I have tried never lasted. I tried one last year, it wasn't eating at store.... Was a smaller specimen from Indian Ocean grey face. Only thing I saw him pick at was clams on half shell. He died about 8-10 days after intro.....


Here is my big guy!!! He’s the king of my tank!!!

Any Nipping on LPS? I've been debating getting an Angel but my tank is filled with LPS

 

[UncleSalty]

Any Nipping on LPS? I've been debating getting an Angel but my tank is filled with LPS

Mine has destroyed it all, including all my chalices.

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

LPS and angels seems like an elevated risk.... for the coral anyway. I'm sure the angels love it!

I have been getting rid of any LPS I don't want to see eaten for a while now.

Thanks for the tips, hope I can use them but i havent recieved a shipping notification yet, bet they cancel it...GRRR ...

 

[Daniel Waters]

Regals can be a bit shy, so I think it's even one more reason to QT them and get them eating before introducing them into a display tank. More aggressive tank mates may cause the regal to be timid about eating.

For juveniles, meaty foods worked best for me. Small clams on the half shell worked very well for me to entice my angel in the beginning. Once they start eating, though, they should accept a wide variety of foods. Just keep offering a variety till you find a food yours will take. And don't be surprised if it doesn't eat much or at all the first few days. Mine just picked very little for almost a week and then it turned into a pig...that's why I think QT was helpful for me to allow the regal time to adjust

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

Yay! It shipped!

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

Not a great photo since lights are off but he made the trip and appears healthy !

 

[code4]

How is the little guy doing? I have had mine almost a year. Still small.

Shelley

 

[UncleSalty]

As an update to mine - he is still doing extremely well. I have learned something I would encourage you all to try. If you've read my posts, you know my Regal loves Collared Greens. Probably the favorite thing I put in the aquarium for him. He'll go through a leaf a day (along with the tang). Anyway, the Regal decimated my coral population. Ate everything in sight. I thought to myself one day "I haven't put Collared Greens in there in awhile", so I did a test. I bought a hammer coral, some zoas, and an acan head - put them in the aquarium ALONG WITH a collared green, and to this day - he has not touched another coral. As long as there is a collared green in there, he'll leave the corals alone.....I don't know why, but for $.98 cents at walmart, i'll keep buying them for him!

 

[code4]

So do the collared greens need to be organic? My little guy had not ate my Dendro. He is in a 40 gallon hospital tank with it. He has been there since last November. Something nasty got in my display and I am being super slow in getting them all back into it. They will go back into the display tank this weekend. But I have never bought collared greens. But am willing to give them a go.

Shelley