Getting Yellow Tang To eat from the Top

[Nigel35]

My new baby yellow tang is a gem in the tank, only issue is that he won't eat the pellets from the top. It only will eat the pellets which sink to mid tank level. Thankfully I have got him to eat nori, and frozen but would be good to get him to eat off the surface. Any ideas on what to do?

 

[EvanDeVita]

My tank is small, but I had the same problem. I threw pellets at the water, forcing them to sink. This helped me feed my jawfish and goby

 

[Brett S]

I feed pellets and I find that over a couple of weeks the fish discover that food comes from the surface and they will start to swarm the surface whenever I walk by the tank. If you have other fish that are also eating from the surface that can help too. They see when the other fish start getting excited about food coming and go to the same place that they are.

Until then, try to make sure some of the pellets sink so he can find them and get food.

 

[Uncle99]

He will find it.

 

[Tango99]

I have had my yellow tang for 2 weeks and he seems to only like the sinking pellets/frozen. He's slowly discovering Nori but but won't eat it directly from the sheet (it needs to be floating in the tank for him to eat it)

How is your yellow tang doing?

 

[Nigel35]

I have had my yellow tang for 2 weeks and he seems to only like the sinking pellets/frozen. He's slowly discovering Nori but but won't eat it directly from the sheet (it needs to be floating in the tank for him to eat it)

How is your yellow tang doing?

Doing much better! Has started to eat from the top! Something I realized was that the pellet size matters. The Tang might be able to eat bigger sinking pellets but have a harder time eating them from the top, so smaller size can be a factor IME. Hope all goes well for yours!

Nigel

 

[Rp8]

Patience is also key

 

[Tango99]

Doing much better! Has started to eat from the top! Something I realized was that the pellet size matters. The Tang might be able to eat bigger sinking pellets but have a harder time eating them from the top, so smaller size can be a factor IME. Hope all goes well for yours!

Nigel

Great! Thanks!

 

[ZoWhat]

Feed him mysis.... next question

 

[vetteguy53081]

I have five and they are not surface feeders but will go into attack mode when it’s suspended in the water. That goes for a majority of my tangs

 

[Tango99]

@skimjim. Is mysis a less desired option for Yellow Tangs?