Blue-lipped bristletooth tang not eating

[Thriller2022]

My blue-lipped bristletooth tang has been in the tank for 2 days now. It has been very active and is always busy picking at the glass and rocks but has not shown any interest in any food I have put in the tank including mysis shrimp, dry hatchery pellets, nori and seaweed pellets. I don't want to clean my glass because I fear it will not get enough food. Any suggestions for things this fish will eat or is picking off the glass and rocks enough for it. It's still small about 2.5 inches.

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[Big G]

Do you have any "Masstick" food? It sticks to the glass or rocks. As the fish starts feeding you can blend other foods into it.

Masstick Fish Food

Watch your fish eat food right off any surface in your tank. Masstick's all natural formula that contains a blend of diverse compounds, providing a balanced diet for all types of marine fish, especially finicky ones. Masstick food can be placed onto your tanks glass and fish can graze and peck...

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[vetteguy53081]

My blue-lipped bristletooth tang has been in the tank for 2 days now. It has been very active and is always busy picking at the glass and rocks but has not shown any interest in any food I have put in the tank including mysis shrimp, dry hatchery pellets, nori and seaweed pellets. I don't want to clean my glass because I fear it will not get enough food. Any suggestions for things this fish will eat or is picking off the glass and rocks enough for it. It's still small about 2.5 inches.

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The fish is a little thin. Did you ask to see it eat- If not, do so in the future.
How did you acclimate the fish and for how long? While this may not be an acclimation issue, introduction does play a role.
Are you able to get live brine shrimp ? If not, try frozen brine but Do not overfeed in attemp to get it to eat. Lower light intensity slightly and assure nitrate, and salinity not elevated.
Assure water temp between 77 and 79, not warmer or colder.
What other foods:
LRS fish frenzy
Formula 2 flake and frozen
small plankton

 

[Spare time]

Maybe dry baby brine shrimp? You could also Google what they eat in the wild (i.e. macroalgae, film algae, etc.) and try to get close to it. Maybe consider ocean nutrition red seaweed (everything in my tank eats it and I have very few algaevore). You could also try dried seaweed like the two little fishes kind (not nori). Every fish I've owned liked ocean nutrition prime reef flakes