LFS has a bicolor angel that has not eaten in about a month

[Chris86]

and I want to save it! He said he would give it to me. He has only tried feeding dry food. Do you think he would recover if offered some rods?

He got another bicolor in the same shipment that is eating great.

 

[eatbreakfast]

Maybe, maybe not. Be prepared to offer anything. Oysters or clams on the half shell, blackworms, sponge that grew on live rock, even see if the store has a damaged fleshy brain coral that he will give you or sell cheap.

 

[HotRocks]

and I want to save it! He said he would give it to me. He has only tried feeding dry food. Do you think he would recover if offered some rods?

He got another bicolor in the same shipment that is eating great.

Very possible, or a prepared frozen food. I have a potters (Same genus) that eats when she wants to. Goes several days at times without eating.

 

[Jesterrace]

and I want to save it! He said he would give it to me. He has only tried feeding dry food. Do you think he would recover if offered some rods?

He got another bicolor in the same shipment that is eating great.

You could also try reef frenzy as it is supposed to help encourage even finicky eaters to eat. I agree though that frozen foods would be your best bet. As to recovering? Who knows. Bicolor Angels are probably the most delicate of the Pygmy/Dwarf Angel variety (at least of those regularly available in the Aquarium trade).

 

[Chris86]

How often should I attempt to feed it?

 

[ca1ore]

Sometimes with angels that refuse to eat, some live rock with encrusted sponge and algae will get them started. Keep in mind that they are grazers in the wild. My potters would take no prepared foods for almost a year, but it was an obsessive grazer. Also, if the fish is 'pinched' behind the head, that is usually unrecoverable.