Benaminh
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Water parameters are great, he's in an established reef tank with sps etc. but I can't seem to entice him to eat prepared food. Maybe he's still settling in but is constantly picking on the live rock and consuming copepods - hasn't touched any of the live coral or polyps. He ate some frozen mysis and cyclopeez at the LFS, but only showed some interest in Nori today. So far no luck with live brine, frozen mysis, cylopeez flake, or Formula 1 flake. Might try fresh chopped shrimp or fresh clam in a half shell tomorrow, but nervous about wrecking my water quality. He's competing with a piggy 2" arabian pseudochromis and 1" baby blue tang for food. Those two will eat anything including flake and pellets. All three were introduced three days ago, there are no other fish in the tank. The angel's only 2.5 inches and seems to be in good health. I would normally avoid this fish in a 35 gallon reef but wanted to try to save him from certain starvation at the LFS. If he makes it = money well spent, if not, it was my good deed for the month and only my third angel fatality in 25 yrs.
