Beautiful tank and stunning regal!I picked up mine a few weeks ago as a large adult male, straight from the IO. Came in at 5”. Wouldn’t touch much for days to about 1.5 weeks in QT, not even clams or black worms, mysis, flakes. Nothing.
luckily in the DT it takes to NLS pellets like crack. I find it likes red colored foods.
Yeah, luckily mine was fat to begin with but it took to copper power well.
A regal AND a jawfish, that’s a great haul!I got my first Regal last Tuesday. I have always looked at them but finally dared to get one. I got it and a blue spotted jawfish in the shipment. Both are doing well. The regal is just a baby and I am a little concerned as she is not really taking food as of yet but she/he went into a 3 year old, mature, 300 gallon reef that was established with a lot of real live rock that was air freighted in from Fiji. It did and still has an immense amount of life on it. Tons of sponges. She grazes all day long and is finally moving from one end of the tank to the other staying close to the rock work It is still very shy but is getting braver every day. When i feed the other tank inhabitants she does show some interest but can't swear she is eating.
Gorgeous fish! Nice color contrasts! Mine still has her (I say her, no idea) juvenile eye spot but she is just maybe over 2". The nice thing, no other fish in the tank even acknowledges her pretense so no aggression at all. I think i saw my lightening clown (she's a jerk) turn and push her tail at her. The regal total ignored her so she fits right in. She is starting to come out and swim freely so I will try to get a better picture. I wan't to say that I got these both from Live Aquaria. In the past I have had really bad luck with them and was one of their biggest critics but this time they came thru. I added this because in the past I have been mouthy about some of the shipments I have received. Packaging was top notch and they arrived healthy and in really great shape.A regal AND a jawfish, that’s a great haul!
If I were in your shoes I would just sit tight, it’s small enough that what it finds in the tank should hold it over for a while.
What have you tried feeding it? Masstick is a good option if it’s picking at the rock.
here’s my guy, starting to lose the juvenile eye spot
I’d say orange as well. Mine was also labeled as a Maldives one but it’s definitely more on the yellow side.This is mine from Maldives via Live Aquaria-the @alton connection. He just lost his baby spot. About 2.5 inches would you say this orange or not?
Hi MichaelE,Lighting clown, that’s a maroon right? Nasty pieces of work, you’re lucky it didn’t pull a knife in the regal
Any luck with feeding it yet? Something to keep in mind is that I believe I killed a very small juvenile by feeding it to much dried food that it’s system wasn’t accustomed to, leading to constipation.
I wis we had something similar to live aquaria here in Sweden, both in terms of variety and price.
How long have you had her? She looks tiny. As I am not that familiar with the species, do the bars fill in as the fish ages or is this what is referred to as a mis-bar? This is obviously a very young fish. At least I have never seen one that small.My Baby Regal eats New Life Spectrum Pellets and all kinds of frozen. He's quite feisty for his size, my Flame Angel and my Coral Beauty are both bigger then him, but he is holding his own against them. He also came from the maledives, but I had a yellowbelly from indo and also a whitebelly from indo before him. The whitebelly was the easiest one to get eating. The origin is not so important, it's the handling by the importer which determines the success you have with the fish.
Looks more of a deeper yellow, tinge of Orange to me.This is mine from Maldives via Live Aquaria-the @alton connection. He just lost his baby spot. About 2.5 inches would you say this orange or not?
I wish mine would help my gaudy clown crab eat my dang palys.
