Emperor Angel Eating

[theMeat]

LRS is great. My emperor ‘s fav food is new life spectrum pellets. Weird, right. If you want your emperor to be long lived you should feed sponge regularly. Many frozen foods formulated for angles are loaded with sponge

 

[Phiilip]

Mine eats Neptune Systems crossover diet and nori. I got him when he was about 1.5” and he’s now about 5” long and roughly 3 years old. He’s healthy and finishing up changing into his adult color pattern. As a juvenile, I worked him into pellet food pretty quickly, he started out hungry so I got lucky (always a bit of that needed with every addition). Mysis and brine shrimp are a good start though if he won’t take dry food. But also stick some nori in there for him to try and graze on. Nori has good nutritional content and people seem to swear it helps with their colors and the prevention of hole in head and lateral line erosion (HLLE). Additionally, conventional wisdom with angels is that they can develop HLLE with persistent carbon filtration, so consider limiting its use. I think if you get them young and bring them up on scheduled feedings, you have a better chance of them not developing a taste for soft corals, I’ve never seen him go after any of mine. That could change though! Knock on wood. A mature fish like yours May be tougher to ween off the bad habit of eating corals if it’s prone to doing it.

 

[ca1ore]

Angels are risky, no two ways about it. Mine pick, but I feed them enough and there's adequate space that they don't decimate. Tradeoffs!

 

[Fishnut]

I feed my angels; Nori, sliced fresh clam, LRS Fish Frenzy, PE Mysis, Hikari Mega-Marine Angel and Hikari Marine A pellets. My Emperor will ignore most of the fresh and frozen until I hand feed him the pellets. He watches the others eat nori but he refuses to try it. I am a little worried that he may not be getting all the nutrients he needs to obtain optimum coloring. I may just stop feeding the pellets to him and try to wait him out. Also he hasn't touched any corals or clams- so far.

 

[roberthu526]

I'm willing to risk inserting a shameless plug to help save the fish, as our track record with helping to get finicky eaters eating unmatched. Checkout the searchable dealer map on the "BUY" page at LRSFoods.com and see if you can get some Fish Frenzy[emoji768]. It has fresh seafood, blackworms, clams, fish eggs and polychaete worms added for finicky eaters.

I have used your food and am still using your food so obviously I like them. However I have never been able to get a finicky fish to eat Reef Frenzy at the beginning. I usually have better luck with brine shrimp or shell fish like fresh clam or oyster. I think it has something to do with I always have trouble feeding new angel fish because they are stationary feeders in the wild. After they start eating certain food for a week or two I start introducing LRS and over time they take a bite and that’s usually all it takes to get them started on LRS. But I never had luck with LRS on the very first bite when they fish refuse to eat anything.

Just my experience and no intention on demoting your food because I am using them regularly.

 

[ReefParadox]

I have a beautiful 4 1/2 inch juvenile thats just starting to transition. Got him when he was about 3 inches. And yes he grunts when he chases the copperband away at feeding time! He hangs with the five tangs eating red and green nori and thinks he's the boss already, they regularly show him otherwise! He eats frozen mysis, squid, blood worms and Rods fish food (don't have Reef Frenzy here in Corpus Christi). He does graze on my zoas, blue sympodium (it has a sponge growing in it), and acans. He also samples the tips of my acros occasionally, especially the new frags! And my milles aren't fuzzy anymore! As @ca 1 ore said, trade offs!! One thing I have learned in my 2 years in this fabulous hobby - these beautiful animals coming from the wild fight for survival and that starts with food. Find the balance between feeding them all they can eat, and keeping algae and cyano in check (refugium with Miracle Mud and lots of fan caulerpa) and they will all get along fine. The fatter your fish, the more peaceful your tank!
P.S. My next angel will be a juvenile queen!