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I love my cherub angel. So active, eats like a pig, is clearly intelligent, and spends all day pecking rockwork.
Any clams or scolies in this tank?
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Nope, but it's shown no interest in feather dusters, nems, or softies which is what I keep. I feed 4-6x a day which helps homie is ROUND. I still say tread lightly. They taste everything, and if it's irresistible like a tasty clam or one of the more appetizing lps your mileage may vary
How long have you had your Cherub? The Xiphypops angels have some pretty nice colors while remaining small.
Crazy how fearless Aussie angels are. Remind me of Bandits….
I’ve owned 5x regals and they’ve all been shy at first. Same behavior as yours for the first few months. Let her settle in and she’ll be out more.
Unfortunately it passed away. I think when I added a bunch of new fish from an order, it got stressed. It was either that or some unknown illness or both. It had some white/gray cyst looking things at the base of the tail. The day after new fish were added it was on the rock/sandbed breathing fast and heavy, and lethargic. I thought it was flukes.
I gave it a freshwater dip but I think that harmed it more. In the future, I'll only freshwater dip lively fish. In retrospect I should've used Ruby Rally Pro bath, but I didn't have any on hand.
It was gray belly Indonesia variant. I heard those can be iffy due to collection methods. I have a Red Sea yellow belly being quarantined by Dr Reef right now. I asked them to make sure it was eating heartily.
I think in the future, in a new tank scenario, I'd get them first, and wait more than the week I waited. I thought a week was enought to get it settled down (as it was eating mysis readily). Then I'd add one fish at a time. And make sure the specimen you get it is very robust. Again mine had some weird growths, who knows if it was anything serious.
I have an acclimation box for the Red Sea regal on order. Hopefully it can settle in. I have a separate observation tank in case as well.
It was my favorite fish in the tank, just a gorgeous specimen. Bummed me out for days when it died. Lessons learned.
Indonesian and Philippines collection still present issues in terms of cyanide use. I’m not surprised that happens with people’s Grey Belly (Regals) and other angels from those regions. Luck of the draw. Best hope is to wait for more species available as CB fish.
Ikea is getting nice and thick.
She definitely is!
Half of it is from these two sponges thriving in my sump. They both throw out young sponges into the sump and I have now got 50-100 smaller sponges that are cream and yellow in my display that she picks at throughout the day.
I have sponges in my sump. Hmmmm....
I want more in my sump haha, it’s just becoming a collection… Similarly to my clams (Although, I don’t know what I’ll do with my deresa once it grows out of my nano… Ikea may like it a bit too much).
I think they call it the super orange cocosensis royal angelfish and it has a price tag of 10000!
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