Fatten up this tang

[sslarison]

I was wondering how I can fatten up my tang?(purple) I see alot of tangs on the web that look so fat but mine still has the pinched belly look to him. I feed a clip full of sea weed selects each day with formula 2 and occasional brine shrimp. His colors look awsome but i was wondering what should i do to fatten him up?

 

[anthem]

replace the brine with somethine nutritious like mysis. Brine shrimp should only be used to get something feeding. Other than that its nutritionally useless.

 

[Wrassman]

I have a Mimic Tang (Acanthurus Pyroferus) that I feed a mush, made out of shrimp, clams, scallops, whitefish, and seaweed selects strips. I portion this all out and grind it in a blender until it is still a little chunky. My Tang and Wrasses and Maroon Clown just go nuts when I feed them. I feed a little every day.

Here's a pic of my Tang. He fattened up very nicely.

 

[Minh Nguyen]

Feed him everything he will eat. Lots of dry sea weed. I folded mine up so that it will last almost all days on the clip. i also feed Mysis shrimps and flake food. My tang always have a full stomach. With this feeding regiment, they will get fat (thick dorsal muscle and body muscle) in a few weeks. Your tang stomach should not be pinched, but full all the time. Pinched stomach does not mean the tang is thin, it mean that he is hungry. When I got home from a three days vacation, my tangs will have flat stomach, but they are still fat.
I skip providing food for amy tangs one or two days a week now so that they also graze on the algae in my tank.

Minh Nguyen

 

[Anonymous]

I was wondering how I can fatten up my tang?(purple) I see alot of tangs on the web that look so fat but mine still has the pinched belly look to him. I feed a clip full of sea weed selects each day with formula 2 and occasional brine shrimp. His colors look awsome but i was wondering what should i do to fatten him up?

We don't keep purples at the aquarium, but we do have many tangs. While they're in q/t they are fed a combination of romaine, krill, squid, sometimes clams, and shrimp (in pieces), soaked with a vitamin concoction. This is because they are q/t'd in big tubs with others. The circulation is so forceful that mysis would immediately be filtered out, but bits of the krill are very readily accepted. They also get noori (or is it nori?), and spirulina. I can't tell you what the majority of tangs get in the displays, though.

 

[Will C1]

go to your lfs and get some plants i grow mine in my refugium and feed it to my purple tang as a treat, he just loves it espically the sea grapes.

 

[MaryHM]

Hands down, Gracilaria algae. When I used to get in skinny shipments of yellow tangs I could fatten them up in about a week with that stuff.

 

[naesco]

She is starving
All of the above good advice plus you need to feed her much more often.
Tangs like to graze all day long

 

[DBM]

Feed more often. For now try feeding it banana - I'm not kidding. Just make sure to remove it after a short period of time as it's messy. I don't know the long term effects of feeding banana but it sure fattens them up quickly.