4FordFamily
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Younger regals or giant regals seem to do better through QT, in my experience.
White thing over regal angel fin
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I have a 5"+ regal now. She's in a 40b all-you-can-eat-buffet QT, and isn't eating a thing. It's coming up on two weeks, treated with prazi but nothing else yet. I hope she figures it out soon, beautiful fish.
My first one I got 5 years ago ate from day 1. It was about 1" juv from diver's den. This one is a 2.5" juv from LA and pretty much eating brine shrimp only right now. I throw in other stuff like rod's and mysis and he's sniffing and tasting everything but spitting it back out.
Def sounds like young ones are easier to get going.
I might have already suggested this but ... Have you tried live blackworms, live brine, littleneck clam (from the grocery store), ROE, Nutramar ova?
For my potters that stop eating, I've tried all of these.. and also live tiggerpods, Artic Pods, Easy Reef Masstick but nothing is working. The only time he ever ate was brine shrimp.
I thought east reef masstick would do the trick since everyone on the forums raves about it.. But he just looks at it and swims away. That might get your regal, ngooder to eat though. I also just ordered New Life Spectrum Max for finicky eaters... It's a pellet but apparently they infuse it with some smelly stuff thats suppose to work wonders.. We'll see..
I've tried SO many things...yes to live clams, worms, and brine. Also bought a live ball sponge to try to tempt it. And a few sacrificial corals.
No ova, I can't find this local and haven't gotten around to ordering it. Tried lots of different frozen foods and several different flake and pellets. Red,green,purple algae on clips and shoved into rocks. Frozen angel formula pushed into crevices.
Even tried collard greens and kale.
dang
Yea, it's frustrating. What kind of Roe do you use? I found a seafood place nearby with shad roe. Is that something we could try?
Oh, ok. Well, we grabbed a set of shad roe for $9 to try. The wholesaler said they do have roe that gets pitched with the guts, they may be able to put them aside for us.
It ate a few flakes!!! I'm sorry, I really felt the need to shout this somewhere...
It's been two weeks to the day.
It's been two weeks to the day.
Reef Ryder
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Looks like my regal is in the same state as yours. I put him in DT with the wrasse on Friday. He has been in hiding since. I see him in the rocks breathing heavy. He won't come out. Not sure what's wrong. He was fine in QT. The wrasse is doing fine too.
It's a 180 and no other fish in there.
Unfortunately, that juv didnt make it either. I pulled him out of the DT and he was just too weak at that point. He was badly infected, probably from rubbing and hiding in the rocks. Strange cause he was fine in the QT.
Anyway, I saw another sale at LiveAquaria for a "medium" sized regal that was suppose to be 2 3/4" to 3 1/4" for $179 normally $299. I got him on Friday, he still has the juvi's eye. And so far he's doing much better than the first one. He eats mysis and brine very well, not picky at all.. Biggest difference is that this one doesnt hide at all. He goes right up to me in QT glass, only goes in the PVC at night to sleep. So maybe I got lucky with one that's been at LA for a while and got over the captivity thing.. who knowz! crossing my fingers this one will make it once in DT.
@125mph- FXFY! My big one is actually doing really well now in QT. Eating flake and clam vigorously, swimming all over, and keeping the tang in check. Ironic, since it seems like half of my other fish are suffering from one mystery ailment or another [emoji58]
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