[jimidalock]

I have a new Powder Brown Tang. He has been in the tank for a week and is doing well. I Have been feeding it frozen Formula One food, but he seems to be constantly picking at the alge on my LR. Is he still hungary? Should I be feeding it something else?

[Lowej82]

i feed mine seaweed select, by ocean nutrition. green marine algae

[jimidalock]

Thjanks Lowej82. I'm off to the pet store now.

[SweeTang22]

tangs require a good nutrition like angels do. the food john suggested is very good for them. keep feeding what your feeding too. its not uncommon for tangs to graze on your rock for algae. they do this in the wild and tangs are very beneficial if you have a hair algae problem.

[Lowej82]

tangs should have a steady supply of algae to graze on as they please at all times. I feed mine the dry algae, frozen fomula two, and frozen mysis shrimp, I try to keep it mixed up a little for my powder blue tang. I havent noticed it eating the flake at all.

use a rubberband to secure it to a piece of rubble rock or lr. seemed mine was a little agreesive towards the magnetic clip

[gimmito]

I feed my yellow tang either a mixture of ocean nutrition/cyclopeeze flake or spectrum food pellets in the morning. In the afternoon he gets a small piece of nori (you can find it in the asian markets). At night he gets frozen homemade food. He's one plump fish.

[chuck rayburn]

what do u guys do if your tangs get ick in a reef awuarium?

[gimmito]

Get him out and into a quarantine tank asap ! I lost a kole tang recently because I did'nt catch it soon enough. You can do hyposalinity to kill off the ick.

[darkcirca]

Nori is a lot cheaper than Seaweed Select. I buy it 10 sheets (large sheets) for $3. I place it on a clip and leave it in there for a few hours, then take it out if he didn't touch it, and put a new one in later in the day.

Some people will rubberband nori/seaweed select to rocks too.

[120gallons]

Tangs always graze. It's normal behavior.

[holiday]

My tangs (Yellow and Blue Hippo) must be weird or picky. They never ate the hair algae in my tank when I had it.

[rlcline76]

Originally Posted by 120gallons

Tangs always graze. It's normal behavior.

I've been reading up on that...quite incidental that I have been reading up on tangs and dietary necessities. Tangs do a lot of grazing in the wild because algae by itself provides very little by way of protein. However, the small crustaceans, mites, whatnot in the algae do have proteins.
holiday: perhaps your tangs are getting the nutrients they need from whatever else you are feeding...or maybe your fish are individualistic and fall outside the norm.

[geekdafied]

Originally Posted by holiday

My tangs (Yellow and Blue Hippo) must be weird or picky. They never ate the hair algae in my tank when I had it.

It depends on the type of hair algae, some they will not touch.

[kds0628]

Originally Posted by gimmito

In the afternoon he gets a small piece of nori (you can find it in the asian markets).

I was wondering if that was ok, or if I had to buy a special kind. My mother, like any other good Korean mother...always brings (lots of) food when she visits. Last time she brought about 10 packages of nori which I'll likely never finish. So this is ok to feed my Kole? Think I'll give it a shot as he seems oblivious to the flake food I feed the Damsel and Clown.

[gimmito]

Make sure the nori is the kind you use for making sushi (and not the ones that are flavored, etc.).

[BlueCornerPalau]

For my Regal Blue Tang I use:

Prime reef flakes

frozen mysis and brine shrimp mix with some seaweed (H20 brand)

frozen coral mix phytoplankton and zooplankton (H20 brand)
(Regal Blue Tangs natural food)

she still grazes too as she should.

She never touches the algae clip stuff
She wont eat formula two

read up on differeent tangs different diets, I dont think any of them can live on algae alone.

[gimmito]

How do you like using the h20 line ? I was looking at some advertisement in fama.

[chris2008]

Try some seaweed wrap for sushi from your local japanese market. It is the same as the seweed you buy from pet stores at about 1/4 the price.