Feeding PAcific Blue Tangs (aka Dori :) )

[edikpok]

Hey guys - I was wondering what you use to feed your blue tangs? what type of greeens do you use? do you add vitamin C to prevent HLLE?

I currently feed mine with brine shrimp, mysis, romaine lettuce, raw shrimp and some dry food (flakes )

Thanks!

[PoonTang]

Mysis, formula2 flake and pellets, bloodworm, cyclopeze all soaked in selcon. And every 2 days a full sheet of Nori.

[Lance]

Mysis, formula2 flake and pellets, bloodworm, cyclopeze all soaked in selcon. And every 2 days a full sheet of Nori.


Ditto. Except I use Garlic Extreme as well.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

I don't bother feeding fresh lettuce because its mostly just water with very little nutritional value.

I fold up a whole nori sheet several times, then sut up the edges so the fish can pull off & eat bite size pieces of nori.

My fish also get some pellets, mysis & blood worms. The Blue will also pick off small pieces of fd krill that I feed to my wife's puffers.

Anthony

[mark]

flake, pellets, nori and the odd time I throw in some mysis.

Every few feedings I'll soak the flake and pellets in Selcon.

Never seen HLLE.

[Marlin65]

I have one in a qt tank right now that I am holding for a friend of mine.
Picked this one up with some other stuff was a package deal.:biggrin:
HE/She is about 3" and it won't eat Nori only frozen and flake.
I think it might be because it was never fed Nori before.
Is it just a matter of getting it used to Nori or do some just not eat Nori?
I thought all tangs mainly ate algae.

[edikpok]

Thanks for the replies guys. Where do you get your Nori?

I saw that J & L has some brown / green / red seaweed ( http://www.jlaquatics.com/info/288/Ocean+Nutrition+Seaweed+Selects+Algae+Sheets.html) . Is this stuff the same as nori?

About the fresh lettuce - do you feed it to your tangs? Anthony - please look at this: http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=61 . It looks like the Romaine lettuce has quite a bit of nutrients actually....

[Trigger Man]

I use Formula 2 pellets, Mysis, and green seaweed (rarely). I also soak the Mysis in Selcon one to two feedings a week, and use Tropic Marin Immuvit and Lipovit mixed in the food atleast twice a week. I used to have issues with HLLE in tangs that I had for a while, but since adding the Selcon an Tropic Marin products I've been good.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

My bad. Romaine is better than the other types.

[fkshiu]

The nori you get at supermarkets (Superstore, T&T, wherever) is the same stuff that's repackaged and sold with a massive markup at LFS. Just look for the plain nori for making sushi as opposed to the stuff with the salt and spices in it.

[naesco]

Unlike other tangs which eat algae in the wild, the Hippo or Pacific Blue Tang is omnivorous. It eats primarily meaty food.
Accordingly, I feed it pieces of shrimp and it gets its algae from the pieces of nori which I feed the other tangs.
I soak the food in garlic extreme and add selcon from time to time.
These fish are ich magnets so the garlic is a good preventative.
Thanks

[RuGlu6]

Mine just eats algae from rocks and glass.
This fish is so fat it's belly is like a drum.
Will have to sale her soon and get a smaller one for my 60Gal tank