Wrasses Eating Nori/Algae

[Arruna]

So I wanted to start a discussion.

I have 4 wrasses, Female Blue Star Leopard, Female Ornate Leopard, Black-Backed (China) Wrasse, Ruby Head Wrasse.

All 4 love eating the nori I put in the tank for my Tang and Blenny. (of course they get plenty of meat too) Wrasses are listed as Carnivores. Do they eat "veggies" in the wild? Has anyone else noticed this with their wrasses?

Why do you think they enjoy going for the Veggies?

 

[PanchoG]

They are little eating machines lol, they will eat anything. I have a coris and a melanarus and they both munch nori, dry food, frozen food and hunt pods and worms during the day.

 

[ehealy13]

So I wanted to start a discussion.

I have 4 wrasses, Female Blue Star Leopard, Female Ornate Leopard, Black-Backed (China) Wrasse, Ruby Head Wrasse.

All 4 love eating the nori I put in the tank for my Tang and Blenny. (of course they get plenty of meat too) Wrasses are listed as Carnivores. Do they eat "veggies" in the wild? Has anyone else noticed this with their wrasses?

Why do you think they enjoy going for the Veggies?

My wrasse loved nori, so does my trigger. The only fish I've kept that didn't was my lion fish. It's instinctive (I believe) for them to eat any food source they see their tank mates eating.

 

[davescj]

I have a melanarus wrasse that will eat meat, frozen meat dropped into the tank, and sea weed from the clip. He doesn't seem particular.

 

[KrisReef]

I would suspect that the op's wrasses all had parents like mine?

 

[dnahas]

Nori on a clip my, melanurus eats a good bit but mostly enjoys tearing it off the clip from the edges.

Nori on Two Little Fishies Pouch Feeder, the melanurus doesn't even look at it, giving the tang some time to eat.

 

[Dcal]

My yellow coris started picking at the nori just one day and hasn't looked back lol

 

[Trouble1375]

My pair of melanurus eat everything - nori, mysis, brine, spirulina, vermitid snails, feather dusters, freshly molted shrimp - and they hunt pods all day.

 

[Jubei2006]

Know it's an older thread but my blue throat, exquisite , and solar wrasse will eat nori with my tangs

 

[fachatga]

My wrasses love the nori too. Seems it’s just good all around

 

[Flame2hawk]

My experience is that most fish in captivity and probably in the wild, will eat both veggies and meat thus are omnivores even when listed as meat or plant eaters. . They’ll eat either plant or meat as a supplement to their preferable diet. The balance of the diet should always tilt towards their diet classification of course.

 

[Jeffcb]

Mine stuff there little wrasse faces with it.

 

[minus9]

I had a Carpenters flasher that would go absolutely nuts for nori. Even my foxface and yellow tang would step aside for him. He would light up like a Xmas tree as he would rip off pieces. I have a video of him somewhere?

 

[Squidz]

My wrasse loves the blennys nori

 

[coralfishreef]

My wrasses have ate nori starting from the first time the seaweed clips went into the tanks.

 

[davescj]

Mine eat it too.

Mine stuff there little wrasse faces with it.

 

[Goaway]

Just think if it this way, most of what wrasses eat, eat algae. Those pods, snails, hermits. Gut loaded on algae and other stuff.

 

[JTyce]

So I wanted to start a discussion.

I have 4 wrasses, Female Blue Star Leopard, Female Ornate Leopard, Black-Backed (China) Wrasse, Ruby Head Wrasse.

All 4 love eating the nori I put in the tank for my Tang and Blenny. (of course they get plenty of meat too) Wrasses are listed as Carnivores. Do they eat "veggies" in the wild? Has anyone else noticed this with their wrasses?

Why do you think they enjoy going for the Veggies?

My pudding wife wrasse devours it.

 

[Joesach]

I had a Carpenters flasher that would go absolutely nuts for nori. Even my foxface and yellow tang would step aside for him. He would light up like a Xmas tree as he would rip off pieces. I have a video of him somewhere?

So does mine. He get's to it before my blenny.