Picky eater

brotherd · #1 03-22-2014, 12:52 AM

Hey all. What do you feed your Naso tang, how much, and how often?

BlueTang<3 · #2 03-22-2014, 01:55 AM

How large is yours mine is about 8-10 inch. Hand feed nori daily as well as new era algae grazers. Feed new era pellets and flakes every second day and frozen once a week. Oddly enough out of my 10 ish tangs my naso is the only one who bites me, when I put the algae grazers in they go nuts either has really bad aim when excited or its intentional but almost every day I get nibbled on.

Slyguy00 · #3 03-22-2014, 04:42 AM

If your having a hard time getting it to eat, you could try soaking your seaweed in garlic. It works quite well and is made to entice picky eaters. They sell it at most lfs.

Drazil · #4 03-22-2014, 05:03 AM

I feed my blonde naso roasted sea weed that I buy at super store all of my tangs go crazy over it and it's cheap 55 big sheets for $2.30 I also feed plankton wich I buy off Tim t. When I first bought my naso it had a pinched belly and wouldn't eat till I bought the roasted sea weed and tried it strongly recommend it it's cheap and my fish are thriving on it.

Cheers.

Cujo#31 · #5 03-22-2014, 04:49 PM

They need meaty foods as well such as krill and mysis. Mine destroy those when I drop it in. I also mix in small ammount of angel/tang targeted flake and pellet too. I also drop a decent sized chunk (what they can kill in a day) of red weed, purple weed, noori. Just vary their diet a bit cuz nutrients found in one not often found in others.

brotherd · #6 03-22-2014, 05:01 PM

Thanks for the replies.I feed purple seaweed and nori in a clip.Also pe mysis and cyclopeze alternated with nutrafin flakes and pellets. Doesn't seem interested in any of it but does graze on the rockwork so he is eating,just not very much.He is new to my tank and only about 4.5 inches long.