yellow tangs (are they troublesome)

[Anonymous]

has any one ever had a problem with a yalow tang nipping at there corals,mine seems to be stressing my brain coral

 

[Anonymous]

Well, I have never had a yellow tang, but I do have a blue hippo tang that will pick at brain corals, and they are supposedly "reef safe".

He might be an especially naughty yellow tang.

 

[Anonymous]

It certainly isn't surprising.
What are you feeding and how often are you feeding the tang? Z. flavescens are very inquisitive and are eating machines, their waking hours are spent foraging for foods mostly algae. If not properly fed and often they will pick on corals.

Regards,
David Mohr

 

[Anonymous]

It certainly isn't surprising.
What are you feeding and how often are you feeding the tang? Z. flavescens are very inquisitive and are eating machines, their waking hours are spent foraging for foods mostly algae. If not properly fed and often they will pick on corals.

Regards,
David Mohr

i'm useing formula one marine pellet once a day.any recomendations on food.

 

[Anonymous]

i'm useing formula one marine pellet once a day.any recomendations on food.

Your poor tang is starving.
Purchase some unseasoned nori from the oriental section of your supermaket if they have it. If not, purchase a product such as Seaweed Selects from your LFS. Take a sheet soaked in a product such as Selco, place on a clip or attach to a rock and let your tang graze on it during the day. Morning and night feed your tang shreds of meaty foods such as shrimp, squid, mussels, etc. plus flake foods such as Spirulina flake.

Regards,
David Mohr

 

[Anonymous]

If your town has an oriental food store look there first for the nori. Same stuff the LFS sell just much cheeper.

 

[Anonymous]

thanks,
i've tried some seaweed from the store before but i guess it was the wrong kind,i'll look for the nori kind.

 

[Anonymous]

Sometimes they just don't like certain kinds. I just tried a new type of seaweed and none of my tangs would eat it.