I placed mine in the sump inside an acclimation box and have had it for a month. It has grown considerably since that time. It eats Masstick, PE flakes, new life spectrum small pellets, whole Hikari mysis, and calanus.
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I placed mine in the sump inside an acclimation box and have had it for a month. It has grown considerably since that time. It eats Masstick, PE flakes, new life spectrum small pellets, whole Hikari mysis, and calanus.
That’s a good idea. Thank you for your suggestion! I will try the egg crate method and divide the tank in half.I would try to divide the tank with egg crate and keep him away from the other fish & crabs until he starts settling in to the feeding routine. From my experience Regals will have a tough time competing with established tangs for food. Regals are just too slow. When I had them together I would try to feed the tangs on one end of the tank and then at the same time feed the regals on the other end. I finally pulled the tangs.View attachment 2607730
I’d been over feeding the tank by a significant amount for about 2 weeks now with all the food I’d mentioned (selcon soaked) earlier in the post. No luck. He would just look at me like I offended him with his offering before going back picking at rocks.the two finicky eaters I had was a juvenile PBT and a juvenile Majestic Angel...
This might be something that I have to resort to in the future as well depending on how things go with the egg crate method. Thank you for your input!My only experience with trying to get a picky eater to eat is with a copperband butterfly, so I don’t know if this is relative or not. The only food I was able to get him eating was white worms, they’re cheap to get a starting culture going and they’re easy to breed. Every fish in my tank went crazy for them. My wife wasn’t too fond of the idea of me breeding worms in the house though.
Seems like we’re in the same boat! But unlike you I started from dry rocks 6-7 months ago and have biodiversity problems so I’m sure my regal will run out of food long before yours.I dropped a baby regal and a baby majestic into a 180gallon with other fish 5 weeks ago. So far I've yet to see the regal eat anything offeted other then the pecking at the 200lbs of gulf live rock all day long. The wild sponges are wiped clean from these rocks lol The baby majestic eats like a king tho and is a little bigger... hoping the regal will come around after it grows. My last wild caught regal wouldn't eat anything besides the ocean nutrition "angel formula" so I've got it on order will let ya know if it eats it after it arrives. It's made of sponges so I suspect it won't be able to resist
Yah i read that. Im glad I have the diversity but man I have since found a mantis shrimp in the tank since putting the babys in lol. So far so good tho. i watched the mantis crawl right by the baby regal when i 1st discoverd it and I dang near **** my pants lol. stinks to hear the sponge food didn't workSeems like we’re in the same boat! But unlike you I started from dry rocks 6-7 months ago and have biodiversity problems so I’m sure my regal will run out of food long before yours.
I have tried the frozen angel food that includes sponge. Not sure what brand it was though. But no luck so far.
Since then I had added other baby fishes and my regal would roam around trying to find and greet these guys from time to time. My idea was for him to sees the other little ones eat, so he will learn to do the same. Except the other little ones has yet to eat either…
Yikes that’s no fun. Do you have a plan to catch the mantis out?Yah i read that. Im glad I have the diversity but man I have since found a mantis shrimp in the tank since putting the babys in lol. So far so good tho. i watched the mantis crawl right by the baby regal when i 1st discoverd it and I dang near **** my pants lol. stinks to hear the sponge food didn't work
No, its a fowler tank so I'll let nature run its coarse. I feel like if mantis wanted baby angels for lunch he woulda had them by now. I watched him have his chance a few times now close to the regal and never see it strike or even act like it acknowledges the fish.. not sure its a predator to them. I've also read their are over 450 different species of mantis shrimp and some are less aggressive than others. I could be fooling myself tho lolYikes that’s no fun. Do you have a plan to catch the mantis out?
Also I’m starting to think that regals are just hard eater period baby or grown, wild caught or CB. Their instinct must be so ingrained that they will rather forage than eat prepared food even when they most likely never had any experience or learn how graze in the breeding tank.
My captive bred goldflake angel loves thisI dropped a baby regal and a baby majestic into a 180gallon with other fish 5 weeks ago. So far I've yet to see the regal eat anything offeted other then the pecking at the 200lbs of gulf live rock all day long. The wild sponges are wiped clean from these rocks lol The baby majestic eats like a king tho and is a little bigger... hoping the regal will come around after it grows. My last wild caught regal wouldn't eat anything besides the ocean nutrition "angel formula" so I've got it on order will let ya know if it eats it after it arrives. It's made of sponges so I suspect it won't be able to resist