Angelfish not eating...

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I currently have a 3/4 inch Angelfish (wild variety) in quarintene. Since I bought it about one week ago I have not observed it eating once, yet it does not appear to be wasting or have any visable ailments. So far I have offered it goldfish flake, mini cichlid pellets (my adult angels love these things) and frozen brine shrimp (thawed of course).

Currently in the tank are one Angel, one striped Raphael catfish, one fancy guppy and one ghost shrimp. All came from Wal-Mart (hence the enforced quarintene). So far I have had one raphael die, however I believe it starved (there were 10+ ghost shrimp in the tank when that happened, the rest were removed to an uncycled containter and later died of ammonia poisoning, stupid me!). Other than the Angel I see no problems either in appearance or behaviour with the remaining creatures.

The way I see it I have three options. 1: Do nothing and hope the Angel is eating from the food I leave for the Rapheal. 2: Ignore my quarintene, switch the Angel for the ADFs in my community tank and pray that I don't get another infection from WM. or 3: Move one Angel from my community tank to the quarintene tank to keep the new fish company. Which do you think is the best answer, and don't say return the fish to the store.
 
I'd first try a wider variety of foods. Live brine are almost a gaurantee to get fish eating, and frozen blood worms will also entice many fish into eating. Once they are eating these foods, it's easier to get them ontoa more balanced diet. Persistance!
 
In agreeance with OG (once again ;) )I would also try live blood worms, and then move to frozen because this is a wild variety. Being as the Angel is wild you may need to train it into the flakes. With the live, mix in some thawed frozen's.... then after a few days/weeks of that, try mixing in flakes.

Good luck!
 
I doubt this is a wild caught angel, just one that has the same coloration as some of the wild angels. It came from Walmart, yes?
 
oh yeah.... just caught that..... at any rate, I would still follow that routine.... being from Walmart though, there might be something wrong with it. Although there may be plenty of fish that come healthy from there, the rep of workers tending at a lot of those places (Walmart) isn't the best.....
 
angels can take up to a week of patient work and you being careful to move slowly and not spook it befor they will eat with you standing there. and the smaller they are the more serious and patient you have to be to get it to work.

I got my angel when he was quarter sized and so emaciated I wondered if he would live. (I got him for personality and form)
the only way he managed to get through that was the existing live white worms that were in the Q-tank.

that gave him enough to make it till he discovered I was a source of food
 
3: Move one Angel from my community tank to the quarintene tank to keep the new fish company.
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No one's mentioned it yet, but you don't want to have just two angels in the same tank together. They will fight to see who's boss and the loser will be a miserable fishy. It is recommended to have either 1 or 3+ angelfish in a tank. Never 2.

Watcher
 
I think I agree, the only problem is I don't have these foods... However I may be able to come up with some live mosquito larvae. Thank you.
 
Originally posted by Watcher74

No one's mentioned it yet, but you don't want to have just two angels in the same tank together.
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Thanks for that advise, I didn´t know that I currently own one angelfish and I was thinking on getting another one, but now I know that either I get two or more, or just none. Anglefish are supposed to be one of the most delicate freshwater fishes.
 
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