Potters Angel

[TankLife87]

I have a potters angel which is about 4” long. He is a big fella. I have only had the fish 2 weeks and it isn’t eating any frozen shrimp, brine, mysis, marine cuisine, or any food I feed.
The fish is however picking algae off rocks and off the glass and swimming and seems very healthy.

Anyone ever encounter this? Anything I can do.

All my parameters are within healthy range and all other fish are happy and eating as normal.

 

[tp5056]

I think mine took over a week before it took to some Hikari Mysis ... eats like a pig now!

 

[James M]

Have you tried soaking the food ?

 

[67chevellemalibu2]

I was thinking about getting one. I have been reading they are difficult to take care of , possibly due to the way they are captured.

 

[JaimeAdams]

See if you can find some live black worms locally. That usually does the trick to get them to start eating in a tank.

 

[lion king]

Since he is picking food from the rocks it does sound promising, these guys can be difficult to get started, they are not use to eating from the water column. Try live brine shrimp, then mixing in with frozen brine, then mixing in mysis; you gotta try and trick him. Smashing some masstick into a coral skeleton or rock for him to pick on is also a good try; the ocean nutrition cubes with the gel binder is good for this also.

 

[Tft12]

I have a pair of them and they didn’t take prepared food for a very long time. Now they eat pellets and everything else.

The first food mine would eat was Docs Eco Eggs. They’re oyster eggs. First they would only eat them off substrate then eventually from the water column, then they started eating anything else. There are a few egg products out there. I would give fish eggs, or oyster eggs, a try along with everything else mentioned above. Throw as a wide a variety at him as you can until you find something he’ll get started on. Frozen mysis stuck in a TwoLittleFishies mesh pouch might be worth a try also.

 

[ca1ore]

Potters is among the trickier of the dwarf angels, particularly the bigger ones. They are obsessive grazers so that it has enough rock is critical. Not at all unusual for it to refuse prepared foods, just keep offering variety and hopefully something tempts it.

 

[Carterfish]

Try one of the angel blends of prepared frozen food. He might pick at that or at least like the sponge offered in it.

 

[Jesterrace]

I have a potters angel which is about 4” long. He is a big fella. I have only had the fish 2 weeks and it isn’t eating any frozen shrimp, brine, mysis, marine cuisine, or any food I feed.
The fish is however picking algae off rocks and off the glass and swimming and seems very healthy.

Anyone ever encounter this? Anything I can do.

All my parameters are within healthy range and all other fish are happy and eating as normal.

Very common for Dwarf Angels. My Coral Beauty did this for the first week before it adapted to Seaweed and then Reef Frenzy.