Feeding PAcific Blue Tangs (aka Dori :) )
 

Hey guys - I was wondering what you use to feed your blue tangs? what type of greeens do you use? do you add vitamin C to prevent HLLE?

I currently feed mine with brine shrimp, mysis, romaine lettuce, raw shrimp and some dry food (flakes )

Thanks!

Mysis, formula2 flake and pellets, bloodworm, cyclopeze all soaked in selcon. And every 2 days a full sheet of Nori.

Ditto. Except I use Garlic Extreme as well.

I don't bother feeding fresh lettuce because its mostly just water with very little nutritional value.

I fold up a whole nori sheet several times, then sut up the edges so the fish can pull off & eat bite size pieces of nori.

My fish also get some pellets, mysis & blood worms. The Blue will also pick off small pieces of fd krill that I feed to my wife's puffers.

Anthony

flake, pellets, nori and the odd time I throw in some mysis.

Every few feedings I'll soak the flake and pellets in Selcon.

Never seen HLLE.

I have one in a qt tank right now that I am holding for a friend of mine.
Picked this one up with some other stuff was a package deal.:biggrin:
HE/She is about 3" and it won't eat Nori only frozen and flake.
I think it might be because it was never fed Nori before.
Is it just a matter of getting it used to Nori or do some just not eat Nori?
I thought all tangs mainly ate algae.

Thanks for the replies guys. Where do you get your Nori?

I saw that J & L has some brown / green / red seaweed ( http://www.jlaquatics.com/info/288/O...ae+Sheets.html) . Is this stuff the same as nori?

About the fresh lettuce - do you feed it to your tangs? Anthony - please look at this: http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?t...dspice&dbid=61 . It looks like the Romaine lettuce has quite a bit of nutrients actually....

I use Formula 2 pellets, Mysis, and green seaweed (rarely). I also soak the Mysis in Selcon one to two feedings a week, and use Tropic Marin Immuvit and Lipovit mixed in the food atleast twice a week. I used to have issues with HLLE in tangs that I had for a while, but since adding the Selcon an Tropic Marin products I've been good.

My bad. Romaine is better than the other types.

The nori you get at supermarkets (Superstore, T&T, wherever) is the same stuff that's repackaged and sold with a massive markup at LFS. Just look for the plain nori for making sushi as opposed to the stuff with the salt and spices in it.

Unlike other tangs which eat algae in the wild, the Hippo or Pacific Blue Tang is omnivorous. It eats primarily meaty food.
Accordingly, I feed it pieces of shrimp and it gets its algae from the pieces of nori which I feed the other tangs.
I soak the food in garlic extreme and add selcon from time to time.
These fish are ich magnets so the garlic is a good preventative.
Thanks

Mine just eats algae from rocks and glass.
This fish is so fat it's belly is like a drum.
Will have to sale her soon and get a smaller one for my 60Gal tank