Scopas tang

[tanglover13]

Hello I have a Scopas tang about an inch he won’t eat food but he does graze on rocks and he might pick on the clip once in a day I got him 4 days ago he won’t touch mysis or brine how will I get him to start eating

 

[cdemoss01]

Hello I have a Scopas tang about an inch he won’t eat food but he does graze on rocks and he might pick on the clip once in a day I got him 4 days ago he won’t touch mysis or brine how will I get him to start eating

Id recommend going to your Local fish store and asking for help. You could also ask vetteguy just PM him or tag him.

 

[tanglover13]

@vetteguy53081

 

[cdemoss01]

By the way vetteguy isn't the only awesome fish doctor out there. There are others.

 

[Hot2na]

as long as he is grazing - he should come around

 

[tanglover13]

When do you think

 

[tanglover13]

He just moves away when he sees shrimp

 

[Sophie"s mom]

Hello I have a Scopas tang about an inch he won’t eat food but he does graze on rocks and he might pick on the clip once in a day I got him 4 days ago he won’t touch mysis or brine how will I get him to start eating

try putting some garlic extract on some nori for the clip. That worked for my naso tang. Now he eats a whole piece by himself every day. I also put a drop in with the frozen mysis. The garlic I use is made by Brightwell Aquatics, it is called Garlic Power

 

[tanglover13]

Do you think I can used squeezed groceries shop garlic

 

[Sophie"s mom]

Do you think I can used squeezed groceries shop garlic

Sure! That is what I did until I got the other. I just broke a clove in half and rubbed it on the nori

 

[tanglover13]

Okay I will try that

 

[mues]

does this tank also have gravel

 

[Troylee]

Give him time… if he’s got algae to graze on he will be ok for awhile.. my blue eye Kole wouldn’t touch food for about a month and just picked the algae off my back glass.. I think he learned from the rest of tang gang who get super excited when I’m near the tank it’s feeding time and he’s a pig now.

 

[Sophie"s mom]

Okay I will try that

in small, recommended doses garlic is actually good the fish, just as it is for us.

 

[tanglover13]

No it has sand

 

[tanglover13]

I will try rubbing garlic on algae

 

[littlefoxx]

@Jay Hemdal @MnFish1

 

[Hot2na]

When do you think

after he runs out of algae or after his stomach gets stretched out from grazing so much and he wants more than algae

 

[tanglover13]

@Jay Hemdal

 

[tgrick]

How long have you had him?
Was he eating before?
If you've had him a short time was he quarantined or medicated?
How many fish are in the tank and what size tank? Is he being bullied?
Do you have more tangs in the system?