Biota regal angel, yes or no?

[areefer01]

For the record, the rest of your post is on point. Clearly you are passionate and care for your animals.

I only clipped this because I 100% agree with it. Search my other post for either of these companies and you will see that I support what Biota and ORA are doing.

We need more people / companies working on this. The only way to ensure that happens is to support these companies that are actually doing it.

Thank you for the reply. I guess I came in too hot, right? My apologies to all.

I do know a fellow reefer overseas who recently purchased the Regal. I am a fan of both his natural looking display and photos so maybe @najer can provide more information how his is doing. I know he has some Scopas tangs, maybe a yellow.

 

[Sean Clark]

Thank you for the reply. I guess I came in too hot, right? My apologies to all.

I do know a fellow reefer overseas who recently purchased the Regal. I am a fan of both his natural looking display and photos so maybe @najer can provide more information how his is doing. I know he has some Scopas tangs, maybe a yellow.

No apologies, passion is a good thing. I have seen najer's fish recently and am super jealous.

 

[najer]

Thank you for the reply. I guess I came in too hot, right? My apologies to all.

I do know a fellow reefer overseas who recently purchased the Regal. I am a fan of both his natural looking display and photos so maybe @najer can provide more information how his is doing. I know he has some Scopas tangs, maybe a yellow.

Thanks, the baby is doing great and is a non stop grazing machine, I haven't seen it take offered food yet but it is still very shy with me.
My female rescue scopas seems to have adopted it and the pink streak has taken a real shine to it.
From across the room, quick little thing and has a great tummy on it.

 

[Zionas]

Nice find! Is yours a captive bred one? How long have you had him for?

 

[najer]

Nice find! Is yours a captive bred one? How long have you had him for?

Yes it is a Biota fish, got it 12 days ago.

 

[Dave1993]

The lemonpeel angelfish is a risk to the regal and might have to put a mirror up for the tangs ask me how i know

 

[glency]

Can’t speak on the specific fish, but @Biota_Marine has been very good for me.

 

[areefer01]

Thanks, the baby is doing great and is a non stop grazing machine, I haven't seen it take offered food yet but it is still very shy with me.
My female rescue scopas seems to have adopted it and the pink streak has taken a real shine to it.
From across the room, quick little thing and has a great tummy on it.

Thank you for replying. Hope you are doing well!

 

[Coralsdaily]

I just want to take a minute and thank everyone.
I didn't need a Red Sea Regal Anglefish coming into this. I came in here to calm the storm. Turns out, the storm turned on me.
Now I need to have my Red Sea Regal Anglefish.
Thanks... not mad just poor now.

You and me both, regal ahs always been on my list!

 

[Coralsdaily]

Obviously each fish is different in temperament, etc. However, my experience is that my 3” Regal gets along with a 4” transitioning Emperor, a 5” Majestic, and a 5” Powder blue tang. There was a problem with a similar size flame angel who I had to get rid of,. There is a somewhat smaller Bicolor that they coexist but with an edge.

I think that is the biggest blocker for me right now, the two centropyge I have - the lemonpeel is my wife’s fish so I need to keep her to stay on wife’s good side. And the flame is just… a flame, adds so much more color contrast to the tank since not many active fish out there are bright red

 

[Coralsdaily]

Price is irrelevant in my opinion. I wish people would drop that vs what Bali, Biota, and Ora are doing. Never the less just know that most of the BIOTA fish are small upon arrival. Grow out tank is ideal. I put all mine in the refugium for at least a month or more depending on how fast they grow. The last one I had was the Golden Lined Rabbitfish.

I am going to place an order but I bought the forktail blenny and acropora mini colony from Palau (amazing frag btw) last week. So need to wait another week before I do. One thing I would recommend is shoot them an email from the portal. They will respond pretty quick about the though of direct to tank or holding. 500 gallons is a lot but fish have a knack of finding other fish. Something isolated so it can get comfortable is ideal.

Another reason for isolation is to allow you to try multiple foods and find what it likes the best. Also allows you to place corals in there to see what it does. All around win win if you want my opinion. This is how I found the rabbitfish likes some soft corals.

TL;DR - Biota rocks (I'm biased - rabbit fish, 3 forktails, radial & matted filefish, starry goby, and 7 sapphire damsels). Email them. All fish are different so your mileage may vary. Regals are freaking amazing.

Yes I have a 80 gallon frag tank plumbed inline with the 500 and plan to isolate any and all quarantined fish there to get them fat and healthy before letting them stretch legs in the 550.
i will also side with your caution on rebbitfish, in my experience almost all of them develop taste for corals at some point…

 

[Coralsdaily]

Yes - here is the info from Biota - this is what they are eating there. As noted above you can always email them for clarity and they will let you know what they are feeding exactly. This also may help with those discussing looks.

I understand the price is high but please remember the amount of effort that breeders are going through to provide these animals. It isn't just provide it is all the IP getting them spawning, or collecting pairs, or collecting things that float to grow, to working with locals and laws and processes to bring these to us. If it wasn't for them we wouldn't have the yellow tang.

Personally I am willing to pay the price knowing you are getting a fish that’s guaranteed to take prepared food vs chancing wild caught who may never eat and perish

 

[Coralsdaily]

For the record, the rest of your post is on point. Clearly you are passionate and care for your animals.

I only clipped this because I 100% agree with it. Search my other post for either of these companies and you will see that I support what Biota and ORA are doing.

We need more people / companies working on this. The only way to ensure that happens is to support these companies that are actually doing it.

Can I get a +1 that Biota need to start breeding Kole tangs on top if yellow tangs?

 

[Tamberav]

I would hold out for a few years if you can. The prices will come down on the regals.

Hopefully they keep producing them. Some fish I feel like get bred then slowly disappear.

Mutlibars? Venustus? Blue tangs? Purple tangs?

Maybe the demand for regals will be so high they will keep at it. Idk.

 

[Coralsdaily]

The lemonpeel angelfish is a risk to the regal and might have to put a mirror up for the tangs ask me how i know

What’s the mirror trick? Do share more please

 

[Tamberav]

Haha so true, seeing lightening maroon price wen from $800 to $50 over the last 4 years

Yes but people can breed lighting maroons in their home easily.

 

[Tamberav]

Btw these are bred by Bali Aquarich not Biota. Biota imports and sells them. I am thankful they do.

 

[Zionas]

Would you say they’re any easier than the wild caught ones?

 

[Oredigger77]

I haven't had a wild caught regal but I have two to the captive bred regals. They eat pellets like they are going out of style and when I introduced them to frozen there was no hesitation, I haven't tried flake yet. As everyone already mentioned these guys come in tiny much closer to 1" than 2' and while mine have come out of hiding to explore the tank they are the only ones in my 90. Apparently, BA is breeding both the yellow bellies and the grey and then growing them out in the same tank so there is a chance that they don't know what they're grabbing since its based on size. We'll see in a couple of years what mine turn into.

 

[bruno3047]

I think that is the biggest blocker for me right now, the two centropyge I have - the lemonpeel is my wife’s fish so I need to keep her to stay on wife’s good side. And the flame is just… a flame, adds so much more color contrast to the tank since not many active fish out there are bright red

When I sold my flame, it was a sad day.