Angel not eating, please help?

gatotsu77

gatotsu77

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I know that angels can be kinda picky eaters, and that stress will make them less likely to eat, but my new angel has not eaten since I brought it home. (had it for 2 days now) I've tried frozen bloodworms twice now... it'll watch them float by, and every so often even swim slightly towards them, but never actually try to eat them. Is there something I can do to get the angel to eat? I don't want it to starve to death... :-(
 
Let it get more familiar to their new surroundings....
 
So there's no worry that the little guy will croak on me just yet, yes? Haha... sorry... just slightly paranoid. :-P This is a really crummy picture, but since he's small I'm not sure if he's too skinny or not. (my first angel) Any opinions as to whether or not he's healthy? (thanks in advance for your opinions... like I said, I'm just slightly paranoid. :-P)

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He seems to look okay but i'm no angel expert. I'd say, don't stress it. Hes brand new to your tank, and is still getting used to his surroundings. Also, maybe your feeding something different then the store he came from was feeding him and hes not used to it yet. Don't worry, he will eventually get hungry enough and eat it, only to find out he likes it hahaha. A bit of a different kind of fish, but when I got my Gold Nugget Pleco, he didn't eat for atleast a week and a half and he didn't croak on me. What size tank you got him in?
 
He's in a 55g along with various other schooling fish. 4 Harlequin Rasboras, 4 Scissortail Rasboras, 4 Black Skirt Tetras, 3 Clown Loaches, 3 Peppered Cories, 2 Spotted Cories, 1 lonely little Cardinal Tetra, 2 SAE's, and a Black Swordtail.
 
I agree with Bob and Erin. He might be wondering where the other angels went too. Give him some time to get comfortable with his new surroundings. He will be eating like a little piggy in no time, no doubt! Looks like a nice angel from your picture.
 
What I have found with the many tanks of angels that I have raised is that the smaller ones dont usually go for blood worms at least untill they get some size on them so what I do is feen them brine shrimp and flakes untill they get some size on them. I know what everybody is going to say that brine shrimp is not nutritional but it has always worked for me.
 
pinkertd said:
I agree with Bob and Erin. He might be wondering where the other angels went too. Give him some time to get comfortable with his new surroundings. He will be eating like a little piggy in no time, no doubt! Looks like a nice angel from your picture.
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Thanks! :-D I sure hope the little guy does start eating soon... has me slightly stressed atm, but I'm also very anxious to see how he develops into his adult size. Do angels retain their juvenile coloring? Or do they kinda morph?
 
Mine always retained their coloring....just got more beautiful as they got bigger. I was just thinking that like Erin says the angel may not have been fed frozen bloodworms before. Just stick to flakes for a while until he's eating really good for you. Then see if he'll go for them. Once he discovers how good they are, he'll go crazy for them. Don't stress, he just looks a little timid and lost in your photo. Some fish fit into their new environment like it was always their home, some take a few days!
 
I just ate a nice turkey dinner and was all relaxed and happy... until I didn't see my angel anywhere in my tank. Of course, I got freaked out, since I've been worried about the little guy, so I started looking around more, and he was stuck in my hornwort, barely breathing. I gently moved the hornwort so he could break free, and he was just free-floating in the water, almost uncontrollably. He's still breathing, and making an attempt to move around with his pectoral fins, but he's not really able to do anything else. I've used a brine net to scoop him up to the top and get him into a protected area away from things he can get caught on and away from most of the current from the filters, and still he's just hovering just under the surface of the water, tail straight down, floating in slow circles as the water current in the tank flows. Am I going to lose this fish? I don't have an iso tank I can move him to, nor do I have a breeder net anymore. (someone picked it up while I was working on my 55 to change it to sand, and its been missing since) The water is 82F, 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 5.0 nitrates, 7.6 ph, 25ppm gh. All of my other fish are healthy. The thought which has me worried at the moment is that I got this angel from petsmart the day after they got their shipment of fish. (huge mistake on my part)
 
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