[Gamboge]

Hello, this is my first post. I have been studying marine fishkeeping upside of 4.5 years, and I think I have memorized many parameters and other things having to do with marine fishkeeping pretty well. Well, the other day, I was browsing various aquatic livestock websites. I came across Pet Solutions, which I have known as a reputable source for some time now. I decided to browse the dwarf angel category and came across the Centropyge pottery, or Potter's angel. Up until I saw this photo, I was unaware of the beauty I have been ignoring for a very long time. In the photo was a healthy, apparently female, Potter's angel. (Note: Males tend to have a higher amount of elecric blue on their caudal fins.) I have studied many sources for the past twenty-four hours, and viewed many websites. To my dismay, Pet Education classified this fish as an "Experts Only" fish. I went back to Pet Solutions, and it was classified as an "Intermediate" fish. I continued checking a lot of sources. (About.com suggested it as a "Moderately Easy" fish, as well.)
After checking about twenty sources, I took a note that they were classified as different "fish care levels" all for the same reasons: They are very picky.
I have ways of making so-called "picky eaters" eat.
I have an extremely picky brother, who will refuse to eat most things and tends to change his views on foods fairly often. Sometimes, I can slip zuchinni (did I spell that right?) into a baked good and he'll refuse to share any of them, sometimes taking up the whole plate himself. If you must know why I bake, it runs in the family. My mother's side.
Anyway, I read that they tend to be herbivores, sometimes eating brine or mysis shrimp, as well as microalgae, wich they seem to need. I'm aware that live rock is a must. There are a lot of cases where they seem to snap up Formula Two pellet food, but what if they're too picky for even the finest and most nutritious foods? I'd like to know very much if anyone has a recipe for marine herbivores. Should you have one, pleeeeeeease post it here. I want to ensure that everything will be perfect before I even begin
setting up my aquarium. I also noted their preferred aquarium size is about 29 gallons. Even if the Centropyge potteri grows to only five inches, would this be okay? And how much live rock would one reccomend? (ten lbs, maybe?) I simply wish to ensure the life of this fish.
But you should all know that.
So, any tips, help, especially recipes, would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading this (I can name few people who would) and thank you for your help.
-Gamboge

[Gamboge]

Um... Help...? Please?
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[Raz]

I had one for a while and then decided to get rid of every fish and start over. It was one of my favorite fish but is very difficult to get to eat which is why it is classified as difficult. I read up a lot on this fish and found that none of it worked. I bought a sponge for him to pick on, i fed nori, and mysis and the only thing it would eat was the mysis. Add garlic to the food to increase health.

They also have a tendency to lose there color to the point that they look pale. To fix this I fed cyclopleeze that it ate on a biweekly basis. They also like to hide in caves when startled. Very attractive fish.

I hope this helps.

[Gamboge]

thanks. That helped.

[gimmito]

They tend to ship poorly, thus you have poor captivity rates.

Some things that will help is:

1. Lot's of live rock with lot's of hiding places.

2. A good crop of micro algae growing on the live rock.

3. No aggresive tankmates !

Checkout http://www.wetwebmedia.com for excellent information on this beautiful fish.