getting fish to eat off vegie clip

[Jarrett]

i got a powder blue tang the other day, eats mysis no problem but am having trouble getting him to eat the algae sheets. i even attached it to a rock i honestly think he just isn't interested in the green sheets. any other recommendations to get him to eat some algae? maybe the red kind?

 

[ecdragonz]

Give it some time.He will.

Sent from my SCH-I535 using Reefs

 

[Jarrett]

i just dont think he likes the green type, it floats around the tank he looks at it and ignores it

 

[PeteTheGreek89]

try using a rubber band and put some around a plug and throw it in the tank and let it sit on the bottom and see how that works.

 

[mbg75]

My tangs go nuts for the brown sheets. Try couple drops of garlic extract on the sheets

 

[Jan]

What kind algae did you buy?

 

[peteyboyny]

I had to put my clip down low in the tank until my tang was comfortable with it. Now I can put it anywhere and they will search it out.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

sometimes its takes a little while for them to find it. My powder blue took a few days to find the algae on the clip but now that he knows its there, he devours it :eat:. He also eats flakes and mysis shrimp, hes a hungry boy . Keep putting the algae in there with the clip and take it out before it decomposes if the tang is not touching it..

 

[edd]

hey tony, like that addition to your avitar. congrats

 

[Tonyscoots84]

thanks edd

 

[Frank@Wall]

I had same issue with my blonde naso. I was putting sheets after sheets everyday but would not touch it. Than after me being persistant after 9 days he is a nori destroyer. Takes time. Just like man...not all fish are created equal

 

[Jarrett]

It's just green algae sheets ill have to see on the package what's the exact name. But I tied it to a rock and he showed a lot more interest then on a clip so ill try that for a few days. He goes nuts for mysis so at least he eats something

 

[Jan]

Tangs are primarily herbivores. They need sea veggies in their diets. It helps to boost their immune system. My tangs get seaweed in their diets once a day.

Mysis is a great strater food and treat but it is mostly all fat. I like feeding pacifica plankton in place of mysis. It comes from the ocean. Fish get more nutrition from foods that come from the ocean than from fresh water foods.

Check the ingredients on store bought nori. Even though fish tend to eat anything you want to make sure that what they are eating is as close to what they are accustomed to eating in their natural environment. Buy unroasted unflavored nori if you must by from grocery stores or purchase from your LFS. LFS's usually have chemical free, unroasted nori made for marine fish.

 

[jeffgreg]

i use romaine lettuce rubber banded to a rock

 

[edd]

with italian or caesars?

 

[jeffgreg]

sesame seeds

 

[jedimaster1138]

I don't have a PBT, but my Kole and Blue both enjoy the purple variety of this:

http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/sea-veggies-seaweed.html

They eat the green too, never touch the red.

 

[TheHun]

i use romaine lettuce rubber banded to a rock

romaine lettuce has 0 nutritional value for your saltwater fish...

 

[jeffgreg]

many reefers have suggested this to me and they love it . This in addition to many other foods , i do feed norri , plankton mixes, brine shrimp ,mysis any other foods
always open to suggestions
i have 5 yellow tangs 3 hippos, 1 powder blue , 1 chevron 1 foxface, 1 naso, 1 sailfin , one powder brown tang . Wow never realized how many tangs i have !

 

[jedimaster1138]

many reefers have suggested this to me and they love it . This in addition to many other foods , i do feed norri , plankton mixes, brine shrimp ,mysis any other foods
always open to suggestions
i have 5 yellow tangs 3 hippos, 1 powder blue , 1 chevron 1 foxface, 1 naso, 1 sailfin , one powder brown tang . Wow never realized how many tangs i have !

Not to hijack, but how to you like the Powder Brown? (assuming it's Acanthurus japonicus) How's it's temperament and does it bug your corals or inverts at all?