my yellow tang isnt eating .....question

[nobody]

i had a yellow tang in my old tank that eat everything..........this one seems to go for the brown alage tht is on the rocks, glass, and sand..........he didnt eat the flakes..........i have flakes because all i had was damsels............what should i feed him next..........im thinking roman lettus with a clip

[deathmatch782]

put some nori on a clip
you could always try soaking it in garlic too

[Casey]

Yes nori on a clip.

[nobody]

whats nori??????

[Tim224DT]

Originally Posted by deathmatch782

put some nori on a clip
you could always try soaking it in garlic too

[Tim224DT]

Originally Posted by ionracing

whats nori??????

Seaweed.


Tim

[deathmatch782]

I bought this stuff
http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewIt...product=TL3353

[jennmac415]

you can get it inexpensively at the grocery... the kind that they use to wrap sushi just make sure it is pure seaweed and has no additives...just tear off a small piece and use your feeding clip or rubberband it to a rock....

[Tim224DT]

http://www.thatpetplace.com/Products.../Itemdy00.aspx

I use the Green Seaweed Selects for my tang.


Tim

[nobody]

thanks i will go and get it now ...........mainly because i am exchanging this tideppol overflow box for a cpr 90 overflow box.............this tidepool one stinks

[VWD]

Originally Posted by ionracing

thanks i will go and get it now ...........mainly because i am exchanging this tideppol overflow box for a cpr 90 overflow box.............this tidepool one stinks

yea , never been impress with that overflow

[Twitterbait]

Nori is great for almost all sea going critters that would normally eat flakes too.

[JennM]

You could also try some spirulina brine too - while tangs are grazers, they will usually accept meaty foods too. Spirulina brine is gut-loaded with blue-green algae, which is beneficial to the tang (and other fishes too).

Flakes don't really resemble anything they'd encounter in the wild - try something a bit more "natural" looking.

Nori is good too - you may have more luck with the rubber band on a rock method, at least until the tang learns to recognize it as food. They'd never likely encounter a brightly coloured plastic clip in the wild either

Jenn

[pactrop]

Yellow tangs are Known to starve themselves for weeks. Offer live brine.
Here is a list of things they like to eat also:
Spirolina, frozen brine, euphausids, nori, kombu, blood worms, chopped clam, sulva, caulerpa, rhodophytes (red algae), phaeophytes (brown algae).

[is_that_a_fish]

yeah i would say go with the nori