Tang food (1 Viewer)

[darbex]

Anyone has a favorite recipe or brand that they use? I heard sea weed from the market works well.

 

[HorseyStripe]

NORI, or other dried seaweed in a clip...

and Rods food...i like them both

 

[kgk]

I feed mine quite a bit of Nori, mostly green but some brown and red when I can find it. It also eats the brine/mysis shrimp & New Life Spectrum pellets that I feed my 2 clowns & 6-line wrasse.

 

[Jamie9169]

I feed Dainichi reef veggie mix and Thera plus pellets. About once per week I will give them a sheet of Nori on a clip.

 

[darbex]

So you do use sea weed from the market and they like it? What is everybodys experience with a good mix between sea weed, mysis, and pellets such as NLS Thera A?

 

[tmgrash]

Mine eat anything I put in the tank. Oddly they barely touch nori.

 

[FragsandMore]

I use nori mostly, but also I have used caulerpa I pulled from my refugium to feed them, kind of recycling a bit

 

[jeremy]

All of mine are pigs!!!! They will eat anything I put in the tank!!!!

 

[darbex]

Going to get some cuelpara for my fuge anyways so that will work.

 

[kgk]

So you do use sea weed from the market and they like it? What is everybodys experience with a good mix between sea weed, mysis, and pellets such as NLS Thera A?

Mine loves the sushi nori you can get at the asian market, or HEB.

 

[FragsandMore]

darbex, be sure and keep your Caulerpa lit 24/7 to avoid it dying off in your fuge

 

[mwilliams62]

I have two Tangs, One a Desjardin Sailfin Tang and one Yellow Tang.
They both will eat the Nori Sheets and almost anything else that I put in the tank for the other fishes that are not Herbivores. Because of my feedings my Desjardin had gotten Hole in the Head diease is caused by not being on the proper diet along with other stuff at least that is what the Internet is saying that causes this diease. However, my Yellow Tang has not gotten it. So I had to move him out of the DT and in to his own tank so he can have strickly Nori Sheets but I do sometimes give him Mysis Shrimp. You can find tons of different kinds of Nori Sheets, Seaweed at this store - Super H Mart @ 1302 Blalock RD.

 

[FragsandMore]

supplement your Nori with added vitamins, like selcon and vitamin C to fix the HITH on your tang

 

[mwilliams62]

I have been doing that as well I forgot to mention that I soak the nori sheets in it for at leaset 45 minutes in the morning. I also add Garlic & Zoe to the selcon & vitamin C. It is taking a really long time for him to heal up.

 

[steveb]

You might also try Spirulina (flakes/pellets) soaked in Selcon. When I kept larger Angles and Tangs back in the early 90's it did a nice job of helping.

 

[mwilliams62]

What brand? And who here in Houston sells it?
Did you ever have any fish with that diease and if so how long did it take to cure it?

 

[steveb]

I don't remember the brand - to many years have passed (back in 88-95)since I kept marine fish. It was heavier/thicker than a flake but not a pellet. I had Imperator that had it when I got him. Took about a year for the erosion to go away. I had him from 91-95 when we moved. I fed the tank spirulina, fresh (squid,shrimp,clam), community marine fish food. The spirulina and fresh ingredients would get the selcon soak.

You should be able to find spirulina in one form or another I would think at any of the fish stores. Also a lot of the blended foods for herbivores have some spirulina in them.

I'm not saying don't use nori - I would just try the spirulina in addition to the nori (variety).

I think no matter what you feed them the selcon/vitamins are important.

 

[darbex]

Does anyone locally carry Selcon?

 

[Llama]

1/4 of nori dialy, pinch of pellets daily (Dainichi marine and veggie mixed together in a bag), mysis once a week.

 

[steveb]

I think City Pets has Selcon.