I bought 3.5 inch yellow belly regal angelfish 5 days ago. Currently, he is in QT by himself. I feed him mysis shrimp and he does eat. However, he does not eat aggressively. He is not very shy, he swims around the QT freely. When I feed him mysis shrimp, he is interested. He will eat 1 or 2 pieces then stops. When I feed him more, he looks at it and about to eat, but he doesn't. I was wondering how can I get him to eat more aggressively. I only feed him one piece at a time to keep up with the water quality.
Regal angel question
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Very normal behavior. The main thing is that the fish is eating. Try to feed several times a day but just small amounts. You can also try different foods, and I'd highly recommend adding small clams in the shell for the angel to pick / eat on. The clams worked better for me than anything else, as I could leave them in the tank for a while and let the angel pick as it was comfortable doing. The last thing you want to do is try to force things and stress the fish. Give it time to adjust.
For what it's worth, my regal behaved the same way. It ate very little for the first 7 to 10 days. Then one day it just started eating aggressively, and I couldn't believe what a pig they can be! After your fish starts eating normally, I'd also recommend you leave him in the QT for another week or longer to fatten him back up before introduction to the main tank. Most likely the transition to a new community tank will start another stress period for the angel where he won't eat or will eat reluctantly. Regal angels can be pretty timid, so if you have aggressive tank mates, you will want to monitor the interaction to be sure they don't stress the regal too much. I had a purple tang that I added months AFTER my regal angel, but the purple was being too aggressive to my regal and stressing it where it started acting stressed and eating less. I had to intervene by putting the tang in a QT tank twice and reintroducing before things finally got sorted out.
For what it's worth, my regal behaved the same way. It ate very little for the first 7 to 10 days. Then one day it just started eating aggressively, and I couldn't believe what a pig they can be! After your fish starts eating normally, I'd also recommend you leave him in the QT for another week or longer to fatten him back up before introduction to the main tank. Most likely the transition to a new community tank will start another stress period for the angel where he won't eat or will eat reluctantly. Regal angels can be pretty timid, so if you have aggressive tank mates, you will want to monitor the interaction to be sure they don't stress the regal too much. I had a purple tang that I added months AFTER my regal angel, but the purple was being too aggressive to my regal and stressing it where it started acting stressed and eating less. I had to intervene by putting the tang in a QT tank twice and reintroducing before things finally got sorted out.
Mine loves chopped frozen clams in cubes and Hikari Mega-Marine Angel, has sponge in it. I also add vitamins.
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Ocean Nutrition Frozen Chopped Clams
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While it is expensive having food shipped over night so are our fish. I buy enough to last several months at a time. Worth it to me. My little guy is only 3 inches now and I have had him, her, a year.
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Ocean Nutrition Frozen Chopped Clams
As low as $2.49
While it is expensive having food shipped over night so are our fish. I buy enough to last several months at a time. Worth it to me. My little guy is only 3 inches now and I have had him, her, a year.
Shelley
