Feeding tangs

[Sexytang]

I got a new tang and she’s still adjusting to the tank. I can’t get her interested in nori but she eats pellets I got for her and mysis
Are these pellets healthy for her. Ocean nutrition formula two pellets

 

[romperstomper]

can take them a while to realise nori is good food given time they will love it ,just add a clip a few times a week /daily later and leave it be . Algae,seaweed is important part of the diet unless you have plenty for them to eat in the tank .Those pellets contain some but is mostly meaty .

 

[Jgro1413]

I got a new tang and she’s still adjusting to the tank. I can’t get her interested in nori but she eats pellets I got for her and mysis
Are these pellets healthy for her. Ocean nutrition formula two pellets

Hey, my hippo tang wasnt interested in nori at first either but after introducing other tank mates who ate it and she witnessed them eating , she began eating it. Other good veggie pellet options are seaweed extreme, and Omega one makes a kale flake. Frozen food wise I give my tang brine gut loaded with spirulina. Another thing I just remembered doing that also worked was to try ripping your nori up into bite size pieces and feeding it that way. Best of luck!

 

[Sexytang]

I had a peace in tank took it out and bashed up a little in my fingers and put some in she ate a few little peace’s

 

[Billldg]

How are you feeding the nori? For a tang, that is where they will get most of their nutrition from. Tangs will pick at rocks grazing all day, have you tried to rubber band it to a piece of rock? If its only interested on shrimp right now you can feed them spiralina brine shrimp as the shrimp are gut loaded with seaweed before they are frozen.

 

[Roosterjack]

Try some macro-algae...sea lettuce seemed to be a favorite.

 

[Sexytang]

Nori clip on the glass.

 

[sarcophytonIndy]

I feed my tangs one sheet of nori daily. They seem to prefer the red nori over the green nori, but I alternate. I roll the sheet into a tight cylinder/cigarette shape and then zip-tie it to a rock, and drop the rock on the sand. They attack it, but it takes them a while (hours) to finish it off.

 

[Kzang]

I got a new tang and she’s still adjusting to the tank. I can’t get her interested in nori but she eats pellets I got for her and mysis
Are these pellets healthy for her. Ocean nutrition formula two pellets

My biota captives raised yellow Tang wouldn't eat it clipped. I had to read it and float it with a power head for him to eat it