This was a post on another board from Jan of 2015. I had totally forgotten about this fish. It really works if you put the effort in!
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Tube feeding success - regal angel
i just wanted to describe another successful transition from fasting to feeding with the aid of tube feeding.
I purchased a regal angel. From day one it refused frozen mysis, brine and shad roe. It refused raw fresh oyster, clam and mussel. I also tried fresh squid, frozen menhaden and flake food. The only interest is showed in food was following a 1 inch grass shrimp around the tank. After two weeks of fasting and having never seen the fish pick at the rock work, or lettuce in the tank, I started tube feeds with the use of tricaine and Stat, a high calorie liquid supplement for newborn sheep, horses, and other livestock. I've used Stat in the past for my sharks. I started the feeds before the fish really started to thin out.
About 10 days (5 feeds) after doing forced feeds every other day, tonight the fish started eating flake food right out of the water column. I'm really excited because never has the fish shown interest in food.
I just wanted to restate how helpful this technique this can be. This fish could of course started eating on its own, but it's been shown that the longer the fish fasts, the greater the chance it develops GI dysfunction and loses the ability to absorb nutrients from its food, even if it does start eating.
Anyway, I highly recommend considering it and to start long before their bellies looks "pinched". I wish I videoed this fish, but in I will repost the one I did In the past."
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